Country size comparison
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Gambia is about 3.7 times smaller than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 27.2% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (15.0 million fewer people live in Gambia).
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Moving from Gambia to Netherlands · OECD 2023
214 people moved from Gambia to Netherlands.
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