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ranges, deserts, island groups (archipelagoes), regions, etc., are generally used with a "the" definite article (the Rhine, the North Sea, the Alps, the Sahara, the Hebrides, the Rhineland, the Midwest, the Balkans, the Highlands).
*Continents, individual islands, administrative units, and settlements mostly do not take a "the" article (Europe, Jura, Austria (but the Republic of Austria), Scandinavia, Yorkshire (but the County

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