| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Gam·bi·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  g m b - |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or The Gam·bi·a |
| A country of western Africa lying along the Gambia River and surrounded, except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, by Senegal. Once a part of the Mali Empire, it became a British crown colony in 1843 and a British protectorate in 1894. Gambia achieved independence in 1965. From 1982 to 1989 it formed with Senegal the Confederation of Senegambia. Banjul is the capital and the largest city. Population: 1,081,000. | | OTHER FORMS: | Gambi·an —ADJECTIVE & NOUN
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