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Gambia

[ gam-bee-uh ]

noun

  1. a river in W Africa, flowing W to the Atlantic. 500 miles (800 km) long.
  2. The, a republic extending inland along both sides of this river: formerly a British crown colony and protectorate; gained independence 1965; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 4,003 sq. mi. (10,368 sq. km). : Banjul.


Gambia

/ ˈɡæmbɪə /

noun

  1. The Gambia
    a republic in W Africa, entirely surrounded by Senegal except for an outlet to the Atlantic: sold to English merchants by the Portuguese in 1588; became a British colony in 1843; gained independence and became a member of the Commonwealth in 1965; joined with Senegal to form the Confederation of Senegambia (1982–89); consists of a strip of land about 16 km (10 miles) wide, on both banks of the Gambia River, extending inland for about 480 km (300 miles). Official language: English. Religion: Muslim majority. Currency: dalasi. Capital: Banjul. Pop: 1 883 051 (2013 est). Area: 11 295 sq km (4361 sq miles)


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Example Sentences

US-owned Africell, which has 12 million mobile subscribers in countries such as Gambia, Uganda, DRC and Sierra Leone, this week secured a $105 million loan facility from a group of financiers led by Gemcorp, it said in a statement.

From Quartz

For instance, of all the countries that signed the Paris climate accord, only Gambia has a plan in place to actually reach its carbon-reduction targets.

As a result, peanut soup became part of Virginia’s culinary heritage, with that region’s version being directly derived from maafe, a peanut soup eaten by the Wolof people of Senegal and Gambia, according to culinary historian Michael Twitty.

Liberia, under former soccer star George Weah, and Gambia could be next.

From Ozy

The members of Ama Comedy are planning their next video to feature a hypothetical debate during Gambia’s 2021 presidential elections.

From Ozy

A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”

Faal told the FBI that his group was trying “restore democracy to The Gambia and improve the lives of its people.”

The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.

The various members met for the first time when they traveled to Gambia at the beginning of December to carry out their plan.

But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.

Tell him I'm not "called" yet: certainly not called to Gambia.

A new species of mahogany has been lately introduced in cabinet-work, which is commonly called Gambia.

It is this which induces me to place them in the same section with the more civilized Africans of the Gambia.

Of the two settlements, already mentioned, the Gambia is the most deadly; though Sierra Leone has the worst name.

South of the Gambia and north of the Pongos, the Mandingo tongues, though spoken in the interior, do not reach the coast.

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