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Gambia
Location marker · geographic overview
13.47° N / 16.57° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Banjul
- Population
- 2,759,988 2024
- Area
- 10,689 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English
- Currency
- dalasi (GMD)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Gambia
The Gambia is a small, narrow country along the length of the Gambia River in West Africa, almost completely surrounded by Senegal. Besides beaches and wildlife, The Gambia is known for the town of Juffureh, made famous by Alex Haley's Roots. It is known as the Smiling Coast. Famed for its warm winter weather, the Gambia's inland landscape provides lush river scenery and spiritual cultures.
Landscape & landmarks
Abuko Nature Reserve outside the village of Lamin near Yundum, offers a good introduction to the Gambian wildlife. For instance there's monkeys, crocodiles and some 300 species of birds […] Bijilo Forest Park at Kokoli, has birds and monkeys.Read the see section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-21. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Calling code
- +220
- Internet domain
- .gm
- Land border codes
- SEN
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .gm. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.