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    The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa;...
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    The Gambia is a very small and narrow African country with the border based on the Gambia River. The country is less than 48 kilometres (30 mi) wide at...
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    The wildlife of the Gambia is dictated by several habitat zones over the Gambia's land area of about 10,000 km2. It is bound in the south by the savanna...
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    expeditions to the Gambia in 1651, but their ships were captured by Prince Rupert the following year. In 1651, the Couronian colonization of the Gambia had also...
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  • import around 80–90% of its rice each year. Although around 45% of land in the Gambia is used for groundnut farming, a majority of groundnuts produced are...
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    Banjul (redirect from Banjul, Gambia)
    of The Gambia. It is the centre of the eponymous administrative division which is home to an estimated 400,000 residents, making it The Gambia's largest...
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    and topical guide to the Gambia: The Gambia – country in West Africa, officially named the Republic of the Gambia. The Gambia shares historical roots with...
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    The ECOWAS military intervention in the Gambia or the ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia (abbreviated ECOMIG) – initially code-named Operation Restore Democracy...
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    During the Second World War (1939–1945), the Gambia was part of the British Empire as the Gambia Colony and Protectorate. At the outbreak of war between...
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  • Senegambia (redirect from Sene-Gambia)
    region in West Africa, named after the Senegal River in the north and the Gambia River in the south. However, there are also text sources which state that...
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  • Radio Gambia is the national radio broadcaster of the West African state of the Gambia. Established in 1962, it became the first radio station in the Gambia...
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    Adama Barrow (category Presidents of the Gambia)
    Baaro, born 15 February 1965) is a Gambian politician and real estate developer who has served as President of the Gambia since 2017. Born in Mankamang Kunda...
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  • Gambian English is the variety of English spoken in The Gambia. Gambian English has fewer speakers than any other variety of West African English (WAE)...
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    Kanifing (redirect from Kanifing (Gambia))
    Kanifing is a municipality, local government area and district in the Gambia. It is part of the Greater Banjul Area, to the west of Banjul. It is governed...
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  • Gambia Film Unit was an agency of the Gambian government that produced short films and showed them in remote parts of The Gambia. It was founded in 1967...
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    The Trans-Gambia Highway is a major highway in The Gambia, running across the centre of the nation in a north–south direction. Within the Gambia, the highway...
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    The Gambian pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), also commonly known as the African giant pouched rat, is a species of nocturnal pouched rat of the giant...
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  • Nicolas Jackson (category Gambian men's footballers)
    Nicolas Jackson (born 20 June 2001) is a Gambian-born Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Chelsea and for...
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  • Land reform in Zimbabwe officially began in 1980 with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, as a program to redistribute farmland from white Zimbabweans...
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  • table with land use statistics by country. Countries are ranked by their total cultivated land area, which is the sum of the total arable land area and...
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  • Alieu Ebrima Cham. Senegambia - The land of our heritage. (1995). p 11 Radio Gambia Programmes now GRTS One Gambia.com interviews veteran journalist and...
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    Wolof people (category Ethnic groups in the Gambia)
    /ˈwoʊlɒf/) are a West African ethnic group found in northwestern Senegal, the Gambia, and southwestern coastal Mauritania. In Senegal, the Wolof are the largest...
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    Jufureh (category Populated places in the Gambia)
    spelled Juffureh or Juffure) is a town in the Gambia, 30 kilometres inland on the north bank of the River Gambia in the North Bank Division near Kunta Kinteh...
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    Senegambia Confederation (category 1982 establishments in the Gambia)
    century between the West African countries of Senegal and its neighbour The Gambia, which is almost completely surrounded by Senegal. The confederation was...
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    for a Swiss person which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries, and land. The English adjective Swiss is a loanword from French Suisse, also in use...
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  • Thumbnail for List of countries and dependencies by area
    This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include,...
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  • Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof (category People's Progressive Party (Gambia) politicians)
    as Cham Joof or Alhaji Cham Joof, (pen name: Alh. A.E. Cham Joof) was a Gambian historian, politician, author, trade unionist, broadcaster, radio programme...
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    Arable land (from the Latin: arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. Alternatively, for the purposes...
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  • Thumbnail for Climate change in the Gambia
    Climate change in the Gambia is having impacts on the natural environment and people of The Gambia. Like other countries in West Africa, the impacts of...
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    Mandinka people (category Ethnic groups in the Gambia)
    Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. Numbering about 11 million, they are...
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