Map of Gambia

Gambia is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 13.5° N, 16.6° W. It shares land borders with 1 country — Senegal — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Gambia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Gambia shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Gambia covers about 10,689 km² (4,127 sq mi). That makes it the 162nd-largest country in the world by area and the 49th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 5 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 2,422,712, the 142nd-largest in the world and the 43rd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Gambia has an average population density of about 227 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 43rd by population and 49th by area.

The seat of government is Banjul, and the official currency is the Dalasi (GMD, D), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+00:00.

Gambia carries the ISO country codes GM and GMB, dials on the international calling code +220 and uses the .gm internet domain.

Gambia shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Senegal (capital Dakar, about 18,593,258 people).

By area, Gambia is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.5° N, 16.6° W and opens at zoom level 8, framing Gambia within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Banjul. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Gambia lies about 1,495 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Gambia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+00:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Dalasi (GMD, D).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +220 and websites commonly use the .gm internet domain.

In short, Gambia is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Banjul. Gambia has a population of about 2,422,712 and covers around 10,689 km² (4,127 sq mi), ranking it 142nd in the world by population and 162nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Gambia.

The flag of Gambia is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, blue with white top and bottom edges, and green.

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