Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 40 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 2.51% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (8.1 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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