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 Spacecrafts:
  |   Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica
  
 Central Asia, Inner London, Lower Egypt, Outer Mongolia, Upper Austria
  
  
  
 Ancient Greece,
 Medieval Europe, 
 pre-war/post-war Germany, Roman Britain
 
 Lake Constance, Lake Erie, Lake Geneva
  
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 San Francisco Bay, Morecambe Bay
  
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 Everest, Mont Blanc, Ben Nevis, Mount Fuji
  
  
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 Christmas Island, Delos,
 Easter Island, Ireland, Bermuda, Sicily, Borneo 
  
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 Most countries: Finland, Germany, Turkey, etc. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 Bavaria, Ohio, Surrey, California
  
 Kent, Hampshire
  
  
 Most cities: 
 Denver, London, Lyons
  
 Most streets: 
 London Road, Madison Avenue, Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross, Park Lane 
  
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 Central Park, Hyde Park
  
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 Manchester Grammar School, Dartmouth College
  
 Cambridge University, Kent State University
  
  
  
  
 St Peter’s Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral,
 Westminster Abbey
  
 London Bridge
  
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 Guy’s (Hospital)
  
 Brown’s Hotel
  
  
 Death Valley, Heaven, Hades
  
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 Leoni’s (Restaurant), Luigi’s
  
 Selfridges
 Marks and Spencer’s
  
 Victoria (Station), 
 Waterloo (Station), Heathrow (Airport)
  
 Her Majesty’s (Theatre),
 Sadler’s Wells (Theatre)
  
  
  
 smaller boats – with a zero article
  
 Challenger, Apollo 17
  |   the African Continent 
  
 theArctic,the Balkans, the Equator, the Middle East, the North Pole, the West, the Midlands, the Crimea, the Punjab, the Dordogne 
 the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Stone Age
  
 The Great Salt Lake,
 the Lake of Geneva
  
 the Pacific (Ocean), the Caspian (Sea), the Nile (or the River Nile), the Mississippi (or the Mississippi River), the Suez Canal, the English Channel, the Gulf of Mexico 
  
 the Bay of Biscay, 
 the Bay of Bengal
 the Alps, the Himalayas
  
 some names of foreign mountains: the Jungfrau, 
 the Matterhorn
  
 the Azores, the Bahamas
 the British Isles, the Orkney Islands/ the Orkneys 
  
 the Isle of Capri, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight
 the Gobi (Desert), the Kalahari (Desert), the Sahara (Desert)
  
  
 Unions and associations: the ARE (the Arab Republic of Egypt), the UK (the United Kingdom), the USA (the United States of America)
 A few countries:
 The Argentine (or Argentina), the Netherlands, the Philippines, (the) Sudan, (the) Yemen, (the) Cameroun, (the) Ukraine 
  
 The Vatican
  
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 The City (of London),
 the Hague
  
 the High Street, the Strand, the Drive, the Mall
 Note:the London Road (= the road that leads to London)
 foreign streets and squares – keep the definite article: the Via Veneto, the Reperbahn, the Boulevard St Michel 
  
 the A1, the M1
  
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 the British Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Library of Congress
  
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 the University of Cambridge, The University of Wales, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 
  
 the Abbey of Cluny, the Dominican Abbey
  
  
 the Golden Gate Bridge
  
 The Odeon, the Gaumont
  
 The London Hospital
  
 The Hilton (Hotel), 
 the Ritz, the Royal Oak
  
 The Everglades, 
 The Underworld
  
 The White Horse
  
 The Café Royal
  
  
 The Scotch House
  
  
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 The Globe, the Coliseum (Theatre), the Phoenix (Theatre), the Whitehall (Theatre)
  
 The Titanic, 
 the Queen Elizabeth
 the Orient Express 
  
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