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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]
The marché Mont-Bouët (Mont-Bouet market), in Libreville is Gabon's largest market, [1] [2] with hundreds of stalls selling fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry (live and dead), fabric, clothing, jewelry, household goods, traditional medicine and a variety of other goods. It is easy to get lost in the narrow passageways of the market and there ...
Gabon (/ ɡ ə ˈ b ɒ n / gə-BON; French pronunciation: ⓘ), officially the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.
Libreville is the capital city of Gabon in West Africa. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. B. Buildings and structures in ...
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Akanda National Park (French: Parc national d'Akanda) is located just north of Libreville, Gabon's capital city. It is also one of 13 National Parks in Gabon set up in 2002 by President Omar Bongo after a two-year study by the Directorate of Widlife and Hunting, WCS and WWF.
Stade Omar Bongo is a multi-purpose stadium in Libreville, Gabon. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as the home ground of FC 105 Libreville. The stadium has a capacity of 41,000 [2] and is named after Omar Bongo, who was President of Gabon from 1967 to 2009.
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.