Gambia is about 24 times smaller than Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 4.25% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.8 million more people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of Western Sahara vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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