Gambia
Gambia (officially Republic of the Gambia) is a country in Western Africa, with its capital at Banjul, and is home to roughly 2.8M people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is dalasi (D); people from here are called Gambian.
- »The country is a narrow strip following the Gambia River, surrounded by Senegal on three sides, the smallest country on mainland Africa.
Gambia has exactly one neighbour: Senegal to the northeast.
Banjul sits on an island at the mouth of the Gambia river and was founded by the British in 1816 as a base for suppressing the slave trade.
10,240 km² (3,954 sq mi), 163rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Lebanon.
Population 2,759,988, 140th of 198 on file. That averages 270 per km² (698 per sq mi).
Red for the sun, blue for the Gambia River, green for the land, with white bands separating them. Unusually, the flag carries no political symbolism at all, by design.