Артиклі з географічниминазвами CATEGORY | NOARTICLE (Article ‘a’) | USETHE | EXCEPTIONS | Thingsconsideredtobeunique | * a full moon, a bright red sun (like any noun with a descriptive attribute) | thesky,thesun, themoon, theground, theearth, theworld, theuniverse, thehorizon, the cosmos | nature, space Men’s ventures into space. I love nature. | Planets | Venus [vi:nэs], Mercury['mә:kjuri], 'Jupiter , 'Saturn, Uranus [ju'reinэs], Pluto, 'Neptune | | Butthe planet we live in or the land we liveon:the Earth, the planet Earth or the earth | Continents | Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, South/North America, Antarctica | | | The four cardinal points and directions | | 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’: thePeople’s 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 – усяВенеція | | 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 ['kaiэrou], 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) | Streets, avenues | Downing Street, Oxford Str., Fifth Avenue, Charing Cross Road | | the London Road, the Mall, the Champs of Elysees (Єлисейськіполя), 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 | | Valleys | | the Sacramento valley, the Hudson valley | | Jungles, forests, rainforest | | the Amazon rainforest, the Black Forest | | Deserts | | the Sahara, the Gobi, the Kara Kum Desert | | |