The Gambia
Gambia, TheA country on the West African coast.
Physical.
The Gambia runs west to east along the lower 320 km (nearly 200 miles) of the River Gambia, entirely surrounded inland by Senegal. Its territory on either bank is no more than about 24 km (15 miles) in width.Economy.
The Gambian economy is heavily dependent on groundnuts, with fish, the re-exporting of imports, mainly to Senegal, and tourism providing additional revenue. Gambia imports about a third of its food requirements.History.
The beginning of the colony was the building of a fort by the British at Banjul in 1816 , as a base against the slave trade. Renamed Bathurst, the new town was placed under Sierra Leone in 1821 . Gambia became a British colony in 1843 . The Soninki-Marabout Wars in neighbouring Senegal caused serious disturbances and were ended by Anglo-French...[The entire page is 325 words long]
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