So several country names have the word the with them we have the United Kingdom which is short for the United Kingdom of great Britain and Northern Ireland.

是以，有幾個國家的名字都有the這個詞，我們有United Kingdom，這是大不列顛及北愛爾蘭聯合王國的簡稱。

But we usually have the the U.

但我們通常有美國的。

K.

K.

We have the United States.

我們有美國。

We also have the Netherlands.

我們還有荷蘭。

We have the Bahamas and finally we have the Gambia all the way over here.

我們有巴哈馬，最後我們有甘比亞一直在這裡。

Now those are all of the country names that officially have the, but there are a few more countries where we'll often add the for example the Philippines and the Maldives, Maldives, Philippines.

現在，這些是所有正式有the的國家名稱，但還有一些國家，我們經常會加上the，例如，菲律賓和馬爾地夫，馬爾地夫，菲律賓。

Now why do we say the with those countries?

現在我們為什麼說與這些國家的？

It's probably related to the fact that it's a collection of islands.

這可能與它是一個島嶼的集合這一事實有關。

Having said that we don't say the Indonesia, even though Indonesia is also a country made up of a bunch of islands.

說到這裡，我們不說印尼，儘管印尼也是一個由一堆島嶼組成的國家。