There is variability in the use of the definite article, and whether it is capitalized. The British Permanent Committee on Geographical Names notes, We do have a letter dated May 1964 from the Gambian prime minister's office which instructed us that it should be The Gambia with a capital T. One of the reasons they gave was that Gambia could be confused with Zambia, which was a new name to the international community at the time. However, in running text the present Gambian government generally does not capitalize the "the", and in captions it drops the "the" altogether.Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
There is variability in the use of the definite article, and whether it is capitalized. The British Permanent Committee on Geographical Names notes, We do have a letter dated May 1964 from the Gambian prime minister's office which instructed us that it should be The Gambia with a capital T. One of the reasons they gave was that Gambia could be confused with Zambia, which was a new name to the international community at the time. However, in running text the present Gambian government generally does not capitalize the "the", and in captions it drops the "the" altogether.Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
There is variability in the use of the definite article, and whether it is capitalized. The British Permanent Committee on Geographical Names notes, We do have a letter dated May 1964 from the Gambian prime minister's office which instructed us that it should be The Gambia with a capital T. One of the reasons they gave was that Gambia could be confused with Zambia, which was a new name to the international community at the time. However, in running text the present Gambian government generally does not capitalize the "the", and in captions it drops the "the" altogether.Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
