I'm curious why it is 'The' Gambia. I can't think of any other countries whose English-language names routinely begin with 'The', other than a few "the X Republic" (Czech, Dominican) and some plural island groups (the Philippines, the Maldives, the Seychelles).
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Date: 2010-02-25 05:36 pm (UTC)