Concept information
Preferred term
Gambia
Definition
- Gambia refers to an African river as well as to the country that took its name from one of West Africa's important waterways. Surrounded on three sides by French-speaking Senegal, The Gambia's political borders enclose the lower half of a river that begins in the highlands of Guinea and cuts a swath through the country before emptying into the Atlantic. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Gambia]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Gambia
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