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.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »The country is a narrow strip following the Gambia River, surrounded by Senegal on three sides, the smallest country on mainland Africa.
> BORDERS_
Gambia has exactly one neighbour: Senegal to the northeast.
> THE CAPITAL_
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.
> SCALE_
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).
> THE FLAG_
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.