Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 9 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 11.02% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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