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  2. Geography of the Gambia - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Gambia Location of the Gambia (in circle) Enlargeable, detailed map of the Gambia Satellite image of The Gambia. The Gambia is a very small and narrow African country with the border based on the Gambia River. The country is less than 48 kilometres (30 mi) wide at its greatest width.

  3. The Gambia - Wikipedia

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    The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, [9] [a] is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa; [ b ] it is surrounded by Senegal on all sides except for the western part, which is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean .

  4. List of regions of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Sahara Desert is the massive sparsely populated region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. The Sahel region covers a belt of grasslands south of the Sahara stretching from Senegal to Sudan.

  5. Harmattan - Wikipedia

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    The Harmattan brings desert-like weather conditions: it lowers the humidity, dissipates cloud cover, prevents rainfall formation and sometimes creates big clouds of dust which can result in dust storms or sandstorms. [citation needed] The wind can increase fire risk [6] and cause severe crop damage. [7]

  6. Geology of the Gambia - Wikipedia

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    The British Geological Survey reports that the Gambia has extensive surface water which is rarely used for drinking water. At the mouth of river, high salinity is a problem in surface water supplies. The shallow sand aquifer encompasses almost the entire country, made up of Holocene sediments and an underlying, partially confined Pliocene aquifer.

  7. Wildlife of the Gambia - Wikipedia

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    The wildlife of the Gambia is dictated by several habitat zones over the Gambia's land area of about 10,000 km 2. It is bound in the south by the savanna and on the north by the Sudanian woodlands. The habitats host abundant indigenous plants and animals, in addition to migrant species and newly planted species.

  8. Climate of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Sahara Desert in North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world and is one of the hottest, driest and sunniest places on Earth. Located just south of the Sahara is a narrow semi-desert steppe (a semi-arid region) called the Sahel , while Africa's most southern areas contain both savanna plains , and its central portion, including the ...

  9. Portal:The Gambia - Wikipedia

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    The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, The Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa; it is surrounded by Senegal on all sides except for the western part, which is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean .