<span style="color:black;">Hi,</span><br/><br/><span style="color:black;">Do I need to use ‘the’ before ‘UK’ in the following sentence?</span><br/><br/><span style="color:black;"><span style="color:#0000bf;">On a global basis, </span><span style="color:#0000bf;">Australia</span><span style="color:#0000bf;"><span style="color:#0000bf;"> </span>and </span><span style="color:#0000bf;"><u>UK</u></span><span style="color:#0000bf;"><span style="color:#0000bf;"> were the worst hit markets</span>.</span></span><br/><br/><span style="color:black;">Thanks,</span><br/><br/><span style="color:black;"> MG.</span>