the north,
the south, the east, the west,
the north-west,
the north-east
the North / South Pole, the Equator,
in the South of England
set expressions:
from east to west,
from north to south
Geographicalregions
the Arctic,
the Antarctic
the Far North,
the Far East,
the Middle East,
the Midlands,
the Caucasus,
the Crimea,
the Ruhr (in Germany),
theDordonye (France),
the Punjab (India)
Historicalreferences
Ancient Greece,
Medieval Europe,
Renaissance, Europe,
Feudal France,
Roman Britain,
pre-war/post war Germany,
present day Italy
But:
theEurope of today
(with a limiting attribute)
Note:
The Dark Ages,
the Renaissance, the Stone Age,
the Victorian Age
Countries
Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Denmark, Ukraine, Israel, China, Argentina*
but:theFranceof his youth
plural names
the Netherlands, the Philippines;
the names
which include words like republic, union, kingdom, states:
thePeoples Republic of China, the Czech Republic, the ARE or the Arab Republic of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates or the UAE, the USA, the UK
theVatican,
the Congo,
(the) Ivory Coast, (the) Sudan,
(the) Lebanon,
(the) Yemen,
the Transvaal,
Cameroun or the Cameroons
the Argentine*
most states,
counties,
provinces,
political and administrative regions of a country
Washington state, New Mexico, Florida, Texas, California, New England, Wiltshire,
Westphalia, Bavaria, Kent, Venice
(Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands.)
the state of Washington,
the state of Texas,
the whole ofVenice
names of
countries or regions or areaswhich have a geographical attribute
Northern Ireland,
Highland Britain,
Central Asia,
Upper Austria,
Lower Egypt, Southern France,
Western and Eastern Europe,
Latin America
Towns, cities
Chicago, Oxford, Vienna,
Cairo ['kairou], Kyiv,
New York City
but:
It was a different Paris, unknown to her.
theChicago ofthe 1920s,
the city of New York
the Hague
(in the Netherlands, the seat of its government)
the London Road, the Mall,
the Champs of Elysees (),
theEdgwareRoad,
the High Street
but in the address:
24 High Street,
104 EdgwareRoad
Bodies of water:
rivers
lakes
gulfs, bays
(usually smaller than gulfs),straits
cannels,
channels
seas
oceans
waterfalls
Sg.
Victoria Lake,
Lake Huron,
Lakes Michigan and Ontario,
Loch Ness,
Mono Lake,
Lake Ladoga
Hudson Bay, San Francisco Bay,
Gibraltar
the (River) Thames,
the River Seine,
the Mississippi,
the Nile,
the Danube,
the Rhine,
theDnipro
the lake of Geneva,
the Baikal,
the Huron (without the word lake!)
Pl.the Great Lakes
the Persian Gulf,
the Gulf of Finland
the Bay of Biscayne
the Bay of Bengal
the Strait(s) of Gibraltar,
the Strait of Magellan,
the Panama Canal,
the Suez Canal,
the (English) Channel
the Black Sea,
the Dead Sea,
the Mediterranean
the Caspian sea
the Atlantic ocean,
the Pacific
the Iguaçu Falls,
the Victoria Falls
theGreat Salt Lake
Niagara (Falls)
islands
individual island
Long Island,
Hong Kong, Tahiti, Crete, Corsica, Cyprus [sai..]
groups of islands:
the British Isles,
the Hawaiian Islands,
the West Indies,
the Bahamas,
theBermudas,
the Canaries = the Canary Islands
Note:
the Isle of Man
Mountains, peaks, hills
individual mountain
Ben Nevis, Elbrus, Everest,
Mont Blanc, Snowdon, Kilimanjaro,
Mount Fuji,
Mounts Whitney and Rainier
mountain ranges
the Andes,
the Alps,
the Himalayas,
theCarpatians,
the Appalachian mountains;
the Rocky mountains or
the Rockies,
the Black Hills
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