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The Gambia (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 13 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 13.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 015 30 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -15.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises strips flanking Gambia River; immigration of Wolof, Malinke, and Fulbe began 13th century, established large kingdoms; Portuguese arrived 1455, English 1618; disputed by French and British 18th century; British-controlled and part of Sierra Leone 19th century; official language is English, though Arabic and local languages are also spoken, including Madinka, Wolof, and Fula. |
Names: |
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| Gambia, The (preferred,C,V,English,U,N)
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| The Gambia (C,V,English-P,U)
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............ | National Official name |
| The Gambia (Pampanga)
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| The Gambia (Interlingue)
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| Gambia (C,V,English,U,N)
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............ | UN Official name |
| Gambia (Malagasy)
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| Gambia (Vietnamese)
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| Gambia (Ilocano)
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| Gambia (Indonesian)
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| Gambia (Latin)
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| Gambia (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Gambia (Danish)
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| Gambia (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Gambia (Finnish)
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| Gambia (Swedish)
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| Gambia (Polish)
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| Gambia (Romanian)
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| Gambia (Slovak)
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| Gambia (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Gambia (Basque)
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| Gambia (Aragonese)
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| Gambia (Asturian)
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| Gambia (Akan)
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| Gambia (Welsh)
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| Gambia (German)
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| Gambia (Low German)
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| Gambia (Albanian)
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| Gambia (Breton)
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| Gambia (Dutch)
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| Gambia (Galician)
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| Gambia (Faroese)
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| Gambia (Italian)
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| Gambia (Estonian)
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| Gambia (Greenlandic)
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| Gambia (Turkish)
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| Gambia (Occitan)
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| Gambia (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Gambia (Romansh)
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| Gambia (Kikuyu)
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| Gambia (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Gambia (Norwegian)
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| Gambia (Northern Sami)
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| Gambia (Shona)
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| Gambia (Swahili (generic))
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| Gambia (Ido)
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| Gambia (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Gambia (Limburgan)
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| Gambia (the) (C,V)
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| Islamic Republic of the Gambia, The (C,V)
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............ | from 2016 |
| The Islamic Republic of the Gambia (C,V)
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............ | from 2016 |
| The Republic of the Gambia (C,V)
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| Republic of The Gambia (C,V)
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| Gambie (C,O,Czech)
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| Gambie (French-P,U,N)
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| Gambie (Arpitan)
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| République de Gambie (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Gambia (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| República de Gambia (Galician)
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| Gâmbia (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Гамбия (C,O,Tatar)
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| Гамбия (Tajik)
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| Гамбия (Bashkir)
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| Гамбия (Kazakh)
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| Гамбия (Kyrgyz)
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| Гамбия (Bulgarian)
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| Гамбия (Russian-P,U)
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| Гамбия (Yakut)
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| Республика Гамбия (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 冈比亚 (C,O,Chinese, Wu)
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| 冈比亚 (Chinese-P,U)
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| 冈比亚共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| غامب اَ (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةًغامب اَ (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| GMB (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GM (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO270 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| GA (C,O,FIPS)
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| Gambian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| A Ghaimbia (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Ang Gambiya (C,U,Tagalog)
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| An Ghaimbia (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Gaambiyaa (C,U,Oromo)
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| Gambėjė (C,U,Samogitian)
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| Gambi (C,U,Lingala)
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| Gambi (Albanian)
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| Gambi (Cornish)
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| Gambi (Luba-Katanga)
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| Gàmbi (C,U,Wolof)
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| Găm-bi-a (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Gàmbia (C,U,Catalan)
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| Gàmbia (Sardinian)
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| Gàmbia (Occitan)
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| Gambía (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Gámbia (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Gámbíà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Găm-bi-a (Gambia) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Gambia nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Gambië (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Gambii (C,U,Veps)
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| Gambïi (C,U,Sangho)
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| Gambija (C,U,Croatian)
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| Gambija (Bosnian)
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| Gambija (Latvian)
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| Gambija (Slovene)
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| Gambija (Lithuanian)
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| Gambija (Lower Sorbian)
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| Gambija (Upper Sorbian)
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| Gambijo (C,U,Silesian)
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| Gambio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gambiya (C,U,Rundi)
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| Gambiya (Rwanda)
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| Gambiya (Somali)
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| Gambiya (Nauruan)
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| Gambiya (Tsonga)
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| Gambiya (Turkish, Crimean)
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| Gambiya (Kurdish)
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| Gambiya (Hausa)
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| Gambiya (Turkish)
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| Gambiya (Dimli)
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| Gambiya (North Ndebele)
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| Gambiya (Gagauz)
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| Gambiýa (C,U,Turkmen)
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| Gambiyän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Gambja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Gambya (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Gambya (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gambya (Kabyle)
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| Gambya (Central Bikol)
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| Gammbi (C,U,Fulah)
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| Ganbi (C,U,Bambara)
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| Ganbi (Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Ganbia (C,U,Basque)
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| Géémbiya (C,U,Navajo)
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| IGambia (C,U,Zulu)
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| i-Gambia (C,U,Zulu)
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| IGambiya (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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| Islamic Republic of The Gambia (C,U,English)
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| Kamipia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Orílẹ́ède Gambia (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Qambiya (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| The Gambie (C,U,Scots)
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| Y Gambia (C,U,Welsh)
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| Yn Ghambia (C,U,Gaelic, indigenous Manx)
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| Γκάμπια (C,U,Greek)
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| गाम्बिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| गाम्बिया (Sanskrit)
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| गाम्बिया (Hindi)
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| गाम्बिया (Pali)
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| गाम्बिया (Nepali)
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| गाम्बिया (Newari)
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| Гамбудин Орн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| ဂမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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| Գամբիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| ಗ್ಯಾಂಬಿಯ (C,U,Kannada)
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| གྷེམ་བི་ཡ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| ጋምቢያ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጋምቢያ (Amharic)
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| Гамби (C,U,Chuvash)
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| Гамби (Chechen)
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| Гамби (Mongolian)
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| Гамби (Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Гамби (Russia Buriat)
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| Гамби (Western Mari)
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| ഗാംബിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| גמביה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| گامبیا (C,U,Urdu)
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| گامبیا (Mazanderani)
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| گامبیا (Kurdish)
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| گامبیا (Persian-Farsi)
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| گامبیا (Central Kurdish)
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| گامبیا (Northern Luri)
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| Гамбија (C,U,Serbian)
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| Гамбија (Macedonian)
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| ގެމްބިއާ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| گیمبیا (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| گیمبیا (Urdu)
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| Гамбія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Гамбія (Belarusian)
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| गांबिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| गांबिया (Bihari languages)
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| 감비아 (C,U,Korean)
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| গাম্বিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| গাম্বিয়া (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| แกมเบีย (C,U,Thai)
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| די גאמביע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| گامبيا (C,U,Pashto)
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| ហ្គាំប៊ី (C,U,Khmer)
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| གེམ་བྷི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ガンビア (C,U,Japanese)
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| ประเทศแกมเบีย (C,U,Thai)
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| Ґамбія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| گامبىيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| 甘比亞 (C,U,Chinese, Yue)
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| காம்பியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| გამბია (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| გამბია (Georgian)
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| جامبيا (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| ແກມເບຍ (C,U,Lao)
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| غامبيا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ਗਾਂਬੀਆ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| גאמביה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ගැම්බියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ଗାମ୍ବିଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| ગેમ્બિયા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| གྷམ་བི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| గాంబియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ಗ್ಯಾಂಬಿಯಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ガンビア共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| ဂန်ဘီရာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| গ্যাম্বিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| گمبیا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| गाम्विया (C,U,Nepali)
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| Republic of the Gambia (H,V,O,English,U,N)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
............ |
gained independence 1965 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1970 |
| colony (H) |
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British, 1843-1866, 1888-1894 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Banjul .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, Africa, The Gambia, Banjul municipality) [7000585] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1965 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
| ................ |
(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1965 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Islamic Republic of The Gambia.......... |
[VP] |
| ..................................................... |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 2413451 |
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