Country size comparison
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Gambia is about 11 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 9.37% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (23.5 million fewer people live in Gambia).
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