Gambia

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
GM
ISO alpha-3
GMB
ISO numeric
270
FIPS 10-4
GA
GeoNames ID
2413451

Key facts

Capital
Banjul
Area
11,300 km²
Population
2,280,102
Currency
Dalasi (GMD)
Calling code
+220
Top-level domain
.gm
Official languages
en-GM,mnk,wof,wo,ff

Continent

Name
Africa
Code
AF
In this dataset
58 countries

Africa in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
13.5
Longitude
-15.5
Min latitude
13.065008856000077
Min longitude
-16.829701300999943
Max latitude
13.81998443600007
Max longitude
-13.818712524999881

Boundary

Gambia

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/GM?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 11300,
    "capital": "Banjul",
    "continent_code": "AF",
    "currency_code": "GMD",
    "iso3_code": "GMB",
    "iso_code": "GM",
    "name": "Gambia",
    "population": 2280102
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/GM/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=GM
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=GM
  • /v1/timezones?country=GM
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Name in other languages

Arabic
غامبيا
Chinese
冈比亚
English
The Gambia
French
Gambie
German
Gambia
Hindi
गाम्बिया
Italian
Gambia
Japanese
ガンビア
Korean
감비아
Portuguese
Gâmbia
Russian
Гамбия
Spanish
Gambia
Total language variants
182

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Africa/Banjul UTC+00:00 UTC+00:00

First-level administrative regions

  • West Coast
  • North Bank
  • Upper River
  • Lower River Division
  • Banjul
  • Central River

6 of 6 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Serekunda 340,000
Brikama 97,233
Bununka Kunda 66,449
Sukuta 56,472
Talinding 48,687
Faji Kunda 45,757
Bakau 43,098
Banjul 37,274
Nema Kunku 34,390
Farafenni 32,883

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
2,036
First-level regions
6
Postal codes
0
Name languages
182
Boundary polygon
Yes

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