In sentences like
The project will be monitored by the company's office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
or
The project will be monitored by the company's office in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
should the be used or not?
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The project will be monitored by the company's office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
or
The project will be monitored by the company's office in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
should the be used or not?
I think it does take the article the.
The project will be monitored by the company's office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
I found several sentences mentioning...
...in New York City, the United States.
This included the sentence from the book World Made Global: Stories of Africal Christianity in New York by Mark Gornik.
...the most public of ways that Christianity from Africa had arrived in New York City, the United States and the West.
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