Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 11 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 9.24% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (17.0 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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