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title: "Gambia — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Gambia: capital Banjul, area 11,300 km², population 2,822,093 (2025), currency dalasi. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/gambia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Gambia

**Gambia: Capital Banjul**

11,300 km² · 2,822,093 people (2025) · dalasi

The smallest country on mainland Africa: a strip of land either side of the Gambia River, generally under 50 km wide and about 400 km long, surrounded on three sides by Senegal. The river is navigable by ocean-going ships far inland.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Banjul
- **Area:** 11,300 km² — 4,363 sq mi
- **Population:** 2,822,093 (2025)
- **Density:** 249.7 people per km²
- **Currency:** dalasi (GMD, D)
- **Official language:** English
- **Time zone:** UTC+00:00
- **Calling code:** +220
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** GM · GMB
- **Continent:** Africa

## How it compares

- **By area:** 161 of 200
- **By population:** 142 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vanuatu | 12,189 | 335,169 |
| Qatar | 11,586 | 2,972,215 |
| Gambia ← | 11,300 | 2,822,093 |
| Jamaica | 10,991 | 2,837,077 |
| Kosovo | 10,887 | 1,576,876 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Gambia?

Banjul

### What currency does Gambia use?

The dalasi (GMD).

### How big is Gambia?

11,300 km², or 4,363 square miles — 161 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Gambia drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Vanuatu](https://atoneplace.net/country/vanuatu/)
- [Qatar](https://atoneplace.net/country/qatar/)
- [Jamaica](https://atoneplace.net/country/jamaica/)
- [Kosovo](https://atoneplace.net/country/kosovo/)
- [Nigeria](https://atoneplace.net/country/nigeria/)
- [Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country/ethiopia/)
- [Egypt](https://atoneplace.net/country/egypt/)
- [Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://atoneplace.net/country/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/)
- [Tanzania](https://atoneplace.net/country/tanzania/)
- [South Africa](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-africa/)
- [Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country/kenya/)
- [Sudan](https://atoneplace.net/country/sudan/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]