Country size comparison
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Gambia is about 108 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 0.93% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (55.1 million fewer people live in Gambia).
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