Gambia

The Gambia is a small, narrow country along the length of the Gambia River in , almost completely surrounded by . Besides beaches and wildlife, The Gambia is known for the town of , made famous by Alex Haley's Roots.
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Top destinations: Banjul and Serekunda.

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is the capital of Gambia and its fourth largest city.

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is a major city and the largest metropolitan area in The Gambia.

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, formerly called James Island…

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is a city in Western Gambia and with…

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or Jangjangbureh is a town, founded…

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is a small town in the Gambia on the North…

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is a fishing village of 15,000 people on the western cost of the Gambia.

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is one of the largest and most important wildlife reserves in the Gambia.

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is a small coastal town in south-western Gambia.

is a town located in the Western Division of the Gambia.

is a small town in Gambia, south of the capital, .

Gambia

  • Type: Country with 1,710,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in West Africa
  • Also known as: “Categoria:Gâmbia”, “Cộng hoà Gambia”, “Cộng hòa Gambia”, “De Gambia”, “GAM”, “Gambia dásseváldi”, “Gambia islaamlaž tääʹssväʹldd”, “Gambia islamalaš dásseváldi”, “Gambia islamlaš dásseváldi”, “Gambia tääʹssväʹldd”, “Gambia täsiväldi”, “Gambia Vabariik”, “Gambiai Köztársaság”, “Gambian tasavalta”, “Gambijská republika”, “gm”, “GM”, “GMB”, “Islama Respubliko Gambio”, “Islamic Republic of the Gambia”, “Islamska Republika Gambii”, “Kamopia”, “Pobblaght Islamagh y Ghambia”, “Pobblaght y Ghambia”, “Repubblika tal-Gambja”, “Republic of the Gambia”, “Republic of The Gambia”, “República da Gâmbia”, “República de Gàmbia”, “República Islâmica da Gâmbia”, “República Islàmica de Gàmbia”, “Republiek Gambia”, “Republik Gambia”, “Republik van de Gambia”, “Republika Gambie”, “Republika Gambii”, “Republiken Gambia”, “Republikken Gambia”, “République de Gambie”, “The Gambia”, “Δημοκρατία της Γκάμπια”, “Гамбиатәи ареспублика”, “Республика Гамбия”, “Республіка Гамбія”, “جمهورية غامبيا”, “ইসলামিক রিপাবলিক অব গাম্বিয়া”, “গাম্বিয়া ইসলামি প্রজাতন্ত্র”, “ဂမ်ဗဳ”, “ガンビア・イスラム共和国”, and “岡比亜”
  • Historically known as: “Islamic Republic of The Gambia”
  • Languages: English, Mandinka, Gambian Wolof, Wolof, and Fulah
  • Neighbors:
  • Categories: sovereign state and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
13.534° or 13° 32′ 2″ north
Longitude of center
-15.28° or 15° 16′ 48″ west
Population
1,710,000
Area
11,300 km² (4,363 miles²)
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dalasi (GMD)
Phone code
220
Internet domain
.gm
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297579
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2413451
Wiki­data ID
Q1005
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Gambia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Гамбиа”
  • Achinese: “Gambia”
  • Afrikaans: “Gambië”
  • Akan: “Gambia”
  • Albanian: “Gambi”
  • Albanian: “Gambia”
  • Amharic: “ጋምቢያ”
  • Amis: “Gambia”
  • Angika: “गैम्बिया”
  • Arabic: “غامبيا”
  • Aragonese: “Gambia”
  • Armenian: “Գամբիա”
  • Arpitan: “Gambie”
  • Assamese: “গাম্বিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Gambia”
  • Atayal: “Gambia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qambiya”
  • Balinese: “Gambia”
  • Bambara: “Gambia”
  • Bambara: “Ganbi”
  • Banjar: “Gambia”
  • Bashkir: “Гамбия”
  • Basque: “Gambia”
  • Basque: “Ganbia”
  • Bavarian: “Gambia”
  • Belarusian: “Гамбія”
  • Bengali: “গাম্বিয়া”
  • Bengali: “গ্যাম্বিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Gambia”
  • Bhojpuri: “गांबिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “গাম্বিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Gambia”
  • Bosnian: “Gambija”
  • Breton: “Gambia”
  • Bulgarian: “Гамбия”
  • Burmese: “ဂန်ဘီရာ”
  • Burmese: “ဂမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ဂမ်ဘီရာ”
  • Catalan: “Gàmbia”
  • Cebuano: “Gambia”
  • Central Bikol: “Gambya”
  • Central Kurdish: “گامبیا”
  • Chavacano: “Gambia”
  • Chechen: “Гамби”
  • Chinese: “Gāngbǐyà”
  • Chinese: “冈比亚 / 甘比亞”
  • Chinese: “冈比亚”
  • Chinese: “冈比亚共和国”
  • Chinese: “岡比亞”
  • Chinese: “甘比亞”
  • Chuvash: “Гамби”
  • Cornish: “Gambi”
  • Corsican: “Gambia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Gambiya”
  • Croatian: “Gambija”
  • Czech: “Gambie”
  • Dagbani: “Gambia”
  • Danish: “Gambia”
  • Dhivehi: “ގެމްބިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gambiya”
  • Dotyali: “गाम्बिया”
  • Dutch: “Gambia”
  • Dzongkha: “གྷེམ་བི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гамбий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامبيا”
  • Esperanto: “Gambio”
  • Estonian: “Gambia”
  • Ewe: “Gambia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Gambia”
  • Extremaduran: “Gambia”
  • Farefare: “The Gambia”
  • Faroese: “Gambia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Gambia”
  • Finnish: “Gambia”
  • Fon: “Ganbitò”
  • French: “Gambie”
  • Fulah: “Gammbi”
  • Gagauz: “Gambiya”
  • Galician: “Gambia”
  • Galician: “República de Gambia”
  • Ganda: “Gambia”
  • Ganda: “Gambya”
  • Georgian: “გამბია”
  • German: “Gambia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Gambia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “The Gambia”
  • Gilaki: “گامبيا”
  • Greek: “Γκάμπια”
  • Guarani: “Gámbia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Ganbi”
  • Gujarati: “ગામ્બિયા”
  • Gujarati: “ગેમ્બિયા”
  • Haitian: “Ganbi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gambia”
  • Hausa: “Gambiya”
  • Hebrew: “גאמביה”
  • Hebrew: “גמביה”
  • Hindi: “गाम्बिया”
  • Hungarian: “Gambia”
  • Icelandic: “Gambía”
  • Ido: “Gambia”
  • Igbo: “Gambia”
  • Igbo: “The Gambia”
  • Iloko: “Gambia”
  • Inari Sami: “Gambia”
  • Indonesian: “Gambia”
  • Interlingua: “Gambia”
  • Interlingue: “Gambia”
  • Interlingue: “The Gambia”
  • Irish: “an Ghaimbia”
  • Irish: “An Ghaimbia”
  • Irish: “Gaimbia”
  • Italian: “Gambia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Giambia”
  • Japanese: “ガンビア”
  • Japanese: “ガンビア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Gambia”
  • Jju: “Gambya”
  • Kabiyè: “Kambii”
  • Kabyle: “Gambya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gambia”
  • Kalmyk: “Гамбудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಬಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಬಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gambiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гамбия”
  • Karekare: “Gambiya”
  • Kashmiri: “گَمبِیا”
  • Kashmiri: “گیمبِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Гамбия”
  • Khmer: “ហ្គំប៊ី”
  • Kikuyu: “Gambia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gambiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Гамбия”
  • Komering: “Gambia”
  • Kongo: “Gambia”
  • Korean: “감비아”
  • Kotava: “Gambia”
  • Kurdish: “Gambiya”
  • Kurdish: “گامبیا”
  • Ladin: “Gambia”
  • Ladino: “Gambia”
  • Lao: “ສາທາລະນະລັດແກມເບຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກຳບີ”
  • Latin: “Gambia”
  • Latvian: “Gambija”
  • Ligurian: “Gambia”
  • Limburgan: “Gambia”
  • Lingala: “Gambi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Gambia”
  • Literary Chinese: “岡比亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Gambija”
  • Livvi: “Gambii”
  • Lombard: “Gambia”
  • Low German: “Gambia”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Gambija”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Gambi”
  • Lule Sami: “Gámmba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gambia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gambia”
  • Macedonian: “Гамбија”
  • Maithili: “गाम्बिया”
  • Malagasy: “Gambia”
  • Malay: “Gambia”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാംബിയ”
  • Maltese: “Gambja”
  • Maltese: “il-Gambja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯦꯝꯕꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Ghambia”
  • Manx: “Yn Ghambia”
  • Maori: “Te Kamopia”
  • Marathi: “गांबिया”
  • Marathi: “गाम्बिया”
  • Mazanderani: “گامبیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gambia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gambia”
  • Minangkabau: “Gambia”
  • Mingrelian: “გამბია”
  • Moksha: “Гамбия”
  • Mon: “ဂမ္ဗဳယျာ”
  • Mongolian: “Гамби”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭامبيا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ݣامبيا”
  • Mossi: “The Gambia”
  • N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߊ߲ߓߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Gambiya”
  • Navajo: “Géémbiya”
  • Nepali: “गाम्बिया”
  • Nepali: “गाम्विया”
  • Newari: “गाम्बिया”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Di Gambia”
  • North Ndebele: “Gambiya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gambia”
  • Northern Luri: “گامبیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Gambia”
  • Northern Sami: “Gámbia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gambia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gambia”
  • Norwegian: “Gambia”
  • Novial: “Gambia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Gambia”
  • Nyanja: “Gambia”
  • Obolo: “Gambia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gambia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gàmbia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gambia”
  • Oriya: “ଗାମ୍ବିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Gaambiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Гамби”
  • Pali: “गाम्बिया”
  • Pampanga: “Gambia”
  • Pampanga: “The Gambia”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਾਂਬੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੈਂਬੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Gambia”
  • Pedi: “Gambia”
  • Persian: “گامبیا”
  • Persian: “گمبیا”
  • Piemontese: “Gambia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Gambia”
  • Polish: “Gambia”
  • Portuguese: “Gâmbia”
  • Pushto: “ګامبيا”
  • Pushto: “ګامبیا”
  • Pushto: “گامبيا”
  • Quechua: “Gambia”
  • Quechua: “Gambya”
  • Quechua: “Qampiya”
  • Rakhine: “ဂမ်ဘီယာသမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Gambia”
  • Romansh: “Gambia”
  • Rundi: “Gambiya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гамби”
  • Russian: “Гамбия”
  • Rusyn: “Ґамбія”
  • Sakizaya: “Gambia”
  • Samoan: “Le Gambia”
  • Samogitian: “Gambėjė”
  • Sango: “Gambïi”
  • Sanskrit: “गाम्बिया”
  • Sardinian: “Gàmbia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Gambia”
  • Scots: “The Gambie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A Ghaimbia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Ghaimbia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Ghaimbia”
  • Serbian: “Gambija”
  • Serbian: “Гамбија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gambija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵမ်ႇပီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Gambia”
  • Sicilian: “Gambia”
  • Silesian: “Gambijo”
  • Sindhi: “گيمبيا”
  • Sinhala: “ගැම්බියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Gambia”
  • Slovak: “Gambia”
  • Slovenian: “Gambija”
  • Somali: “Gambia”
  • Somali: “Gambiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قامبیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قامبییا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Gambia”
  • Spanish: “Gambia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴳⴰⵎⴱⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Gambia”
  • Swahili: “Gambia”
  • Swati: “IGambiya”
  • Swedish: “Gambia”
  • Swiss German: “Gambia”
  • Tachelhit: “Gambya”
  • Tagalog: “Ang Gambiya”
  • Tagalog: “Gambia”
  • Tajik: “Гамбия”
  • Tajik: “Гомбиё”
  • Talysh: “Gambijə”
  • Talysh: “Qambiyə”
  • Tamil: “காம்பியா”
  • Taroko: “Gambia”
  • Tatar: “Гамбия”
  • Telugu: “గాంబియా”
  • Thai: “แกมเบีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศแกมเบีย”
  • Tibetan: “གྷམ་བི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “གེམ་བྷི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ጋምቢያ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kamipia”
  • Tsonga: “Gambiya”
  • Tumbuka: “Gambia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “غامبيا”
  • Turkish: “Gambia”
  • Turkish: “Gambiya”
  • Turkmen: “Gambiýa”
  • Twi: “The Gambia”
  • Tyap: “Gambiya”
  • Tyap: “Gambya”
  • Udmurt: “Гамбия”
  • Uighur: “گامبىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамбія”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґамбія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gambija”
  • Urdu: “گامبیا”
  • Urdu: “گیمبیا”
  • Uzbek: “Gambia”
  • Uzbek: “Gambiya”
  • Venetian: “Gànbia”
  • Veps: “Gambii”
  • Vietnamese: “Găm-bi-a (Gambia)”
  • Vietnamese: “Găm-bi-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Gambia”
  • Volapük: “Gambiyän”
  • Võro: “Gambia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gambia”
  • Welsh: “Gambia”
  • Welsh: “Y Gambia”
  • Western Balochi: “گامبیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Gambia”
  • Western Mari: “Гамби”
  • Western Panjabi: “گیمبیا”
  • Wolof: “Gàmbi”
  • Wu Chinese: “冈比亚”
  • Yakut: “Гамбия”
  • Yiddish: “גאַמביע”
  • Yiddish: “די גאמביע”
  • Yoruba: “Gambia”
  • Yoruba: “Gámbíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “甘比亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Gambia”
  • Zhuang: “Gambia”
  • Zulu: “i-Gambia”
  • Zulu: “IGambia”
  • “Gambia”
  • “ma Kanpija”
  • “गांबिया”

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