Gambia is about 41 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 2.44% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (7.2 million fewer people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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