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The Use of Articles with Geographical/Topographical Features.
With place names the use of articles is fixed; some have the definite article and some have no article. There are some hints: a) plural nouns have the: the Bahamas, thePennines b) constructions made up of two nouns separated by of tend to have the: the Strait of Dover.
1. THE is used: 1) with cardinal points and regions: the North /South/West/East, TheMiddle East, thewest of England, the Balkans, the Lake District, thePrairies, theMongolian Stepps. 2) with a few countries that have plural nouns as their names: the Netherlands, thePhilippines. 3) with a few countries where the is optional: (the) Sudan, (the) Lebanon, (the) Yemen, (the) Gambia. 4) with the countries: the Argentine (or Argentina), the Vatican. 5) with the countries whose names include the words kingdom, republic, state, union: the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Republic of Ireland, the Soviet Union. This is the same with abbreviated alternatives: the UK, the USA, the USSR, etc. 6) with oceans, seas, rivers, canals:the Atlantic (Ocean), theMediterranean (Sea), the Danube (River), the Panama Canal. 7) with deserts: the Sahara(Desert), the Gobi (Desert), the Kara-Kum (Desert). 8) with mountain ranges: the Rockies, the Himalayas, the Carpathians, the Alps, the Grampian Hills. 9) with groups of islands: the British Isles, the Channel Islands. 10) with other sea features: the Gulf Stream,the English Channel,the Bosporus, the Strait of Gibraltar, etc.
2. No article is used: 1) with names of continents, most countries, cities, towns and villages: Asia, Europe, Germany, Manchester, Tonbridge, Singleton. NOTE: a) the City (of London),the Hague (the is a fixed part of the place name); b) the is used to pick out a particular "version" of something: The Paris of my youth no longer exists. This isn'tthe London I used to know. 2) with geographical areas and administrative regions of countries: Central Asia, Inner London, North (South) Carolina, Upper Austria, Bavaria, Quebec. 3) with lakes, individual mountains, islands and bays: Lake Geneva, Lake Baikal, Lake Ontario (but: the Lake of Geneva, the Ontario,the Great Salt Lake); Everest, Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro, Ararat (but: the Matterhorn, the Eiger); Easter Island, Malter, Cyprus, Haiti (but: the Isle of Capri,theIsle of Man.); San Francisco Bay (but the Bay of Biscay). |
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