Country size comparison

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Gambia is about 15 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 6.56% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Gambia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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