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Articles with geographical names

Articles with geographical names

We do not use articles with continents, e.g. Europe Asia North America South America Africa Australia

We do not usually use articles with geographical areas, e.g. Eastern Europe Western Europe Central America Siberia

But “the” is used with: the Far East the Middle East the North Pole the South Pole

We do not use articles with names of countries. But we use “the” with the names of countries if they include words such as: state republic kingdom federation

Russia

The Russian Federation

Great Britain

The United Kingdom

Exceptions: The Netherlands The Ukraine The Sudan The Vatican City

We do not use articles with the names of cities, towns, villages.

Moscow

Saint Petersburg

Rome

Exceptions: The Hague

“The” is also used with of-phrases, e.g.

The city of Moscow

The city of Saint Petersburg

We do not use articles with the names of streets avenues highways squares

Sixth Avenue

Red Square

We do not usе “the” with the names of languages when they are not followed by the word language English but the English language