Why is it called The Gambia instead of just Gambia?

Because it is THE Gambia

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>>70750939
You know why. You saw the video.

>>70750939
Better question is: Why does it exist?

>>70750939
Same reason it's called The Netherlands, I suppose.

What a meme-country

Why is it called The Batman instead of just Batman?

>>70750939
>there can only be one
just look what happened to Guinea the moment it didn't copyright its name. Fucking Guinea-Bissau leeching notoreity

>>70751129
because he is called after a specific bat who was his pet

because of Zambia

Why do people say """""the""""" Ukraine

>>70750939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd7z3GignNU

>>70751084
Officially its called Netherlands

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands

Why is it called "The United States of America"

>>70751063
Colonial bullshit

>>70751530
No, officially it's called the Kingdom of the Netherlands

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands

croatia
phillipines
greece

>>70751503
Because Ukraine is originally a geographical name meaning "outskirts", so in English it used with "the" like the Alps or the Atlantic ocean. In Russia it is used with "on" preposition instead of "in" for the same reason and Ukrainians are always assblasted because of that.

http://usefulenglish.ru/grammar/part-7-articles-with-geographical-names
Some places have names which go with the definite article (say, the rockies). When a place like that lends its name to a country, this convention sticks, at least for a while.

>>70751048
Linok

>>70753533
The Netherlands is one of the countries that make up the Kingdom of the Netherlands though. Technically they're two different things, one is a country that belongs to a state. It's similar to England and the UK.

>>70751530
>>70753533
im gonna keep calling it holland

>>70750939
because it's a country based on the Gambia river

>>70764851
So do we

>>70762932
No, the Northern Netherlands is what NL is today more or less, and the Southern Netherlands is today's Belgium, Luxemburg, and the Northern French regions of French Flanders, Picardie and Artois.

>>70751063
>lol why does this bullshit country exist, it has no right to, just fucking arbitrary borders drawn on a map xDDD

>said the Israeli

>>70751063
ditto

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>>70751063
Probably the same reason why yours exist

>>70759631
Why is it called "The Israel"?

>>70764851
Lowcountries is more fitting