The smallest country on mainland Africa, and essentially a strip of land following the Gambia River.
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Gambia
Republic of the Gambia
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
10.69Kkmยฒ of land
$778GDP / person
BanjulCapital
- ISO codes
- GM ยท GMB
- Density
- 220 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- dalasi (GMD)
- Dial code
- +220
- Internet domain
- .gm
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 13.6420ยฐ N, 14.9980ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Gambian
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $1.83B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Gambia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
145th
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world population
Land area
166th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
220th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
60th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Gambia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,347,706 people, the 145th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 3,270 of everyone alive.
Covers 10,689 kmยฒ, making it the 166th largest country here - about 4.1 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 220 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Banjul, at 13.45ยฐ N, 16.59ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 43,094.
Shares land borders with 1 country: Senegal.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Banjul.
The currency is the dalasi (GMD, symbol D).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Banjul
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UTC+00:00
Cities
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Banjul
Banjul
13.4539ยฐ N, 16.5917ยฐ W
43.09K
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Gambia.