Like the Bronx, the only New York City borough not situated on an island, The Gambia— the West African nation surrounded by Senegal, (except for the coast on the Atlantic)— usually has the definite article in its name. Like the Bronx, the Dutch colonized it, though not only the Dutch. The Gambia became a British More
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