Why is the Gambia 🇬🇲 shaped like that?

Continuing on with highlighting fun facts from previous episodes that you may have missed! Here is #TheGambia 🇬🇲. A nation completely built off of a single river.

[temporelucemtenebris]

Senegal: "Can I have some water please?"
Gambia: "No."

[muctarr]

As a Gambian Geograpeep I am loving this

[TNJY]

It's really smart how they made most of their country all around the Gambia River, that could allow a lot of Gambia's water, and economy!

[ahmedjr]

Dadka reer gambia ayaan salaamaya taaso ka timid soomaaliya Africa waa soomaaliya iyo gambiya inta ha iska baxaan 🇸🇴🇬🇲🇸🇩
Guul falastin 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Blaqjaqshellaq]

The important thing is that the Senegalese speak French as their lingua franca, while the Gambians speak English...

[TobeWilsonNetwork]

Better than “The Rictus Grin of Africa”

[YukonGhibli]

They tried, Senegambia Confed did not last long about 40 years ago

[Ea-pbtu]

Wasn’t the curvy line decided by the range that British cannons could shoot from the river?

[lukesherry]

Did you know Courland (which was a subject of the Polish Lithuania commonwealth) which is part of modern day Latvia, had a colony there

[perla]

Why didn’t they just make it all wavy? The straight bit looks wrong

[bunnyrblxx]

Gambia + Senegal = Senegambia
Who likes this name combo?

[speed]

We usually refer to our country as a Lion. Please, don't call us "weird pacman"😂😂.

[rifqitaqiuddin]

Simple answer to "Why is the Border looks like that?" Is the Brittish. Its always the brittish. Always blame the brittish.

[BlackScreen]

The story I knew was that they shot cannons from each side o the river, and wherever the cannon ball landed want the nest dot in a giant game of connect the dots

[erenaygun]

Again the *Britain* ... ☠️ I remembered that when Chruchill was drawing the border of Jordan, he got a hiccup & the border was way too visible 🇯🇴

[Chineseisntalanguageapparently]

So you’re really just skipping Puerto Rico? Cuz it’s just so similar to her US you’d rather just talk about it when thee US vid comes out? Honestly I wouldn’t even be that mad but I’m just disappointed you skipped a country for whatever reason

[zOFFICIAL]

Actually Gambians are more similar to senegalese than Diols in Casemance (southern Senegal under Gambia). There was also war cos Casemance should had independence referendum but Senegal said NO

[AttaBek]

‘The Gambia exists because Britain and France had a border agreement’ it’s actually quite simple