- Gambia (State), officially republic of Gambia, country of Africa of the West, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, borders of which stand out inside Senegal. Becoming confused with the valley of the river Gambia, to which it owes the name, this country constitutes one of the smallest States of the African continent, with a surface of only 11 295 km2. It has for capital Banjul. Colonial creation, Gambia, ancient British colony, owed constantly since its independence, in 1965 , to resist to the will of unification of his Senegalese neighbour, on whom it depends strictly
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