The Gambie

The Republic o The Gambie, commonly kent as The Gambie, or Gambie, is a kintra in Wastren Africae. The Gambie is the smawest kintra on mainland Africae, bordered tae the north, east, an sooth bi Senegal, wi a sma coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the wast.

Its borders roughly correspond tae the path o the Gambie River, the naition's namesake, at flows through the kintra's centre an empties intae the Atlantic Ocean. Its size is amaist 10,500 km² wi an estimatit population o 1,700,000.

On 18 Februar 1965, The Gambie wis grantit unthrildom frae the Unitit Kinrick an joined The Commonwealth. Banjul is The Gambie's caipital, but the lairgest conurbation is Serekunda.

The Gambie shares historical ruits wi mony ither wast African naitions in the slave trade, at wis key tae the maintenance o a colony on the Gambie river, first bi the Portuguese an later bi the Breetish. Since gainin unthrildom in 1965, the Gambie haes enjoyed relative stability, wi the exception o a brief period o military rule in 1994. 

An agriculturally rich kintra, its economy is dominatit bi farmin, fishin, an tourism. Aboot a third o the population live belaw the internaitional poverty line o US$1.25 a day.

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Category:Kintras in Africae
Category:African Union member states
Category:Kintras borderin the Atlantic Ocean
Category:Economic Community o Wast African States
Category:Inglis-speakin kintras an territories
Category:Least Developed Kintras
Category:Member states o the Organisation o Islamic Cooperation
Category:States an territories established in 1965
Category:1965 establishments in the Gambie