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The Gambia (officially the Republic of The Gambia), commonly known as Gambia, is a country in Western Africa. The Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, bordered to the north, east, and south by Senegal, and has a small coast on the Atlantic Ocean in the west.
Ghana was the first place in sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans arrived to trade - first in gold, later in slaves.
It was also the first black African nation in the region to achieve independence from a colonial power, in this instance Britain.
Situated in West Africa, Mauritania has borders with Algeria to the north west, Western Sahara to the North West, Mali to the east and south, Senegal on the south west and the Atlantic Ocean on the west.
Approximately three quarters of Mauritania is desert or semi-desert. As a result of extended, severe drought, the desert has been expanding since the mid-1960s. To the west, between the ocean and the plateaus, are alternating areas of clay plains (regs) and sand dunes (ergs), some of which shift from place to place, gradually moved by high winds. The dunes ...
