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Libreville (/ˈlibrəˌvil/; [2] French:) is the capital and largest city of Gabon, located on the Gabon Estuary. Libreville occupies 65 square kilometres (25 sq mi) of the northwestern province of Estuaire. Libreville is also a port on the Gabon Estuary, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. [3]
Libreville attains commune status. [7] Roman Catholic diocese of Libreville established. [8] 1956 - Léon M'ba becomes mayor. [9] 1958 - Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Libreville built. [citation needed] 1959 - Radiodiffusion-Télévision Gabonaise headquartered in city. [10] 1960 - City becomes capital of the Republic of Gabon. [1] 1964
The national press service is the Gabonese Press Agency which publishes a daily paper, Gabon-Matin (circulation 18,000 as of 2002). L'Union in Libreville, the government-controlled daily newspaper, had an average daily circulation of 40,000 in 2002. The weekly Gabon d'Aujourdhui is published by the Ministry of Communications. There are about 9 ...
Estuaire is the most populous of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km 2. The provincial capital is Akanda, but the largest city is Libreville, Gabon's national capital. The province is named for the Gabon Estuary, which lies at the heart of the province.
The Palais du bord de mer (English: Seaside Palace) is the official residence of the president of Gabon. Located in the capital city of Libreville, it was built in 1977 by President Omar Bongo. [1] It is the work of the Lebanese-Ivorian architect Pierre Fakhoury. [2]
Cities of Gabon Order City Population Province Census 2003 census 2013 1. Libreville: 538,195: 703,940: Estuaire: 2. Mandji (Port-Gentil) 105,712: 136,462: Ogooué ...
On 2 April 1977, an Aviogenex (Yugoslavia) Tupolev Tu-134 registered YU-AJS, crashed on landing, killing the eight crew on board. [15]On 8 June 2004, a Gabon Express twin-engine Hawker Siddeley HS 748 operating Gabon Express Flight 221 ditched into the Gulf of Guinea after suffering an engine failure and hydraulic problems shortly after take-off, leading to the deaths of 19 out of the 30 onboard.
Libreville Hospital (French: Centre Hospitalier de Libreville, CHL [1]) is the largest [2] and most important hospital in Gabon. Located in the nation's capital of Libreville, the hospital has an accident and emergency department which serves much of the country. The hospital treated soldiers during the 2009 Gabonese helicopter crash.