Africa
West Africa

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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is the capital of Gambia and its fourth largest city. The city is on an island, which has constrained its size - its population is only 31,000. Consequently much of the population now is based on the mainland between the airport and the city.

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is a major city and the largest metropolitan area in The Gambia. It is situated close to the Atlantic coast, on the Gambia River, near the capital, .

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, formerly called James Island, is an island in the Gambia River, 30 km from the river mouth. The island and some nearby areas are on the UNESCO World Heritage List because they have important relics of the West African slave trade.

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is a city in Western Gambia and with a population of over 57,000, one of the largest in the Gambia.

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or Jangjangbureh is a town, founded in 1823, on Island, also known as MacCarthy Island, in the Gambia River in eastern Gambia. Until 1995, it was known as Georgetown and was the second largest town in the country.

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is a small town in the Gambia on the North Bank of the Gambia River, most famous as the reputed origin of Alex Haley's ancestor Kunta Kinte, as described in Haley's novel Roots.

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is a fishing village of 15,000 people on the western cost of the Gambia. In you can view the whole industry from making boats and nets, catching fish, salting, smoking and freezing fish.

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is one of the largest and most important wildlife reserves in the Gambia. It was declared a in 1987 and is managed by the Gambia Department of Parks and Wildlife Management.

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is a small coastal town in south-western Gambia. It is located in District in the Western Division. As of 2009, it has an estimated population of 17,520.

is a town located in the Western Division of the Gambia. The town of is situated a couple of kilometres inland from the coastal road, but the name is applied to an area extending from around the town, out to the coast.

is a small town in Gambia, south of the capital, . It is situated adjacent to . The only airport in Gambia is at , built in World War II.

Gambia

  • Type: Country with 1,710,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in West Africa
  • Also known as: “GAM”, “GM”, “Islamic Republic of the Gambia”, “Republic of the Gambia”, “Republic of The Gambia”, and “The Gambia”
  • 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
.gm
Internet domain
220
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”
  • Abkhazian: “Гамбиатәи ареспублика”
  • Achinese: “Gambia”
  • Afrikaans: “Gambië”
  • Akan: “Gambia”
  • Albanian: “Gambi”
  • Albanian: “Gambia”
  • Amharic: “ጋምቢያ”
  • Amis: “Gambia”
  • Angika: “गैम्बिया”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية غامبيا”
  • 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: “ইসলামিক রিপাবলিক অব গাম্বিয়া”
  • Bengali: “গাম্বিয়া ইসলামি প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • 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: “Gambia”
  • 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”
  • Czech: “Gambijská republika”
  • Czech: “Republika Gambie”
  • Dagbani: “Gambia”
  • Danish: “Gambia”
  • Dhivehi: “ގެމްބިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gambiya”
  • Dotyali: “गाम्बिया”
  • Dutch: “Gambia”
  • Dutch: “GM”
  • Dutch: “GMB”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Gambia”
  • Dzongkha: “གྷེམ་བི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гамбий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جامبيا”
  • Esperanto: “Gambio”
  • Esperanto: “Islama Respubliko Gambio”
  • Estonian: “Gambia Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Gambia”
  • Ewe: “Gambia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Gambia”
  • Extremaduran: “Gambia”
  • Farefare: “The Gambia”
  • Faroese: “Gambia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Gambia”
  • Finnish: “Gambia”
  • Finnish: “Gambian tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Ganbitò”
  • French: “Gambie”
  • French: “GM”
  • French: “République de Gambie”
  • Fulah: “Gammbi”
  • Gagauz: “Gambiya”
  • Galician: “Gambia”
  • Galician: “República de Gambia”
  • Ganda: “Gambia”
  • Ganda: “Gambya”
  • Georgian: “გამბია”
  • German: “Gambia”
  • German: “Republik Gambia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Gambia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Islamic Republic of the Gambia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of the Gambia”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “The Gambia”
  • Gilaki: “گامبيا”
  • Greek: “Γκάμπια”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της 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”
  • Hungarian: “Gambiai Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Gambía”
  • Ido: “Gambia”
  • Igbo: “Gambia”
  • Igbo: “The Gambia”
  • Iloko: “Gambia”
  • Inari Sami: “Gambia täsiväldi”
  • 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・イスラム共和国”
  • Japanese: “ガンビア”
  • Japanese: “ガンビア共和国”
  • Japanese: “岡比亜”
  • Javanese: “Gambia”
  • Kabiyè: “Kambii”
  • Kabyle: “Gambya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gambia”
  • Kalmyk: “Гамбудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಬಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಬಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gambia”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gambiya”
  • Kashmiri: “گَمبِیا”
  • 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: “De Gambia”
  • Low German: “Gambia”
  • Low German: “Republik van de 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”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Gambja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯦꯝꯕꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “GAM”
  • Manx: “Gambia”
  • Manx: “GM”
  • Manx: “GMB”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght Islamagh y Ghambia”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Ghambia”
  • Manx: “y Ghambia”
  • Manx: “Yn Ghambia”
  • Maori: “Kamopia”
  • Maori: “Te Kamopia”
  • Marathi: “गांबिया”
  • Marathi: “गाम्बिया”
  • Mazanderani: “گامبیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gambia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gambia”
  • Minangkabau: “Gambia”
  • Mingrelian: “გამბია”
  • Moksha: “Гамбия”
  • Mon: “ဂါမ္ဗဳယျာ”
  • Mon: “ဂါမ်ဗဳယျာ”
  • Mongolian: “Гамби”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڭامبيا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ݣامبيا”
  • 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 dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Gambia islamalaš dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Gambia islamlaš dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Gambia”
  • Northern Sami: “Gámbia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gambia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Gambia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gambia”
  • Norwegian: “Gambia”
  • Novial: “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”
  • Polish: “Islamska Republika Gambii”
  • Polish: “Republika Gambii”
  • Portuguese: “Categoria:Gâmbia”
  • Portuguese: “Gâmbia”
  • Portuguese: “gm”
  • Portuguese: “República da Gâmbia”
  • Portuguese: “República Islâmica da Gâmbia”
  • Portuguese: “The Gambia”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Республика 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 islaamlaž tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Gambia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Gambia”
  • Slovak: “Gambia”
  • Slovak: “Gambijská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Gambija”
  • Somali: “Gambia”
  • Somali: “Gambiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قامبیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قامبییا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Gambia”
  • Spanish: “Gambia”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Gambia”
  • Spanish: “República de Gambia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴳⴰⵎⴱⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Gambia”
  • Swahili: “Gambia”
  • Swati: “IGambiya”
  • Swedish: “Gambia”
  • Swedish: “Republiken 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Gambia”
  • Tsonga: “Gambiya”
  • Tumbuka: “GAM”
  • Tumbuka: “Gambia”
  • Tumbuka: “Gambiya”
  • Tumbuka: “Islamic Republic of the Gambia”
  • Tumbuka: “Republic of The Gambia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “غامبيا”
  • Turkish: “Gambia”
  • Turkish: “Gambiya”
  • Turkmen: “Gambiýa”
  • Twi: “The Gambia”
  • Udmurt: “Гамбия”
  • Uighur: “گامبىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамбія”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґамбія”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Гамбія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gambija”
  • Urdu: “گامبیا”
  • Urdu: “گیمبیا”
  • Uzbek: “Gambia”
  • Uzbek: “Gambiya”
  • Venetian: “Gambia”
  • Venetian: “Gànbia”
  • Veps: “Gambii”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Gambia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Gambia”
  • 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”
  • “GAM”
  • “Gambėjė”
  • “Gambia”
  • “GM”
  • “GMB”
  • “ma Kanpija”
  • “गांबिया”

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