Place:Gabon

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NameGabon
Alt namesGabon Republicsource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) p 423
Gabonese Republicsource: Wikipedia
Gaboonsource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) p 423
Gabunsource: Rand McNally Atlas (1994) p 319
Gabãosource: Novo Dicionário Aurélio (1975) p 667
Gabónsource: UN Terminology Bulletin (1993) p 52
République Gabonaisesource: Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 609; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) p 423
TypeNation
Coordinates1°S 11.75°E
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Bakoumba
Batouala
Bongoville
Gamba
Mounana
Point Denis
Province
Estuaire
Haut-Ogooué
Moyen-Ogooué
Ngounié
Nyanga
Ogooué-Ivindo
Ogooué-Lolo
Ogooué-Maritime
Woleu-Ntem
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly and its population is estimated at million people. There are coastal plains, mountains (the Cristal Mountains and the Chaillu Massif in the centre), and a savanna in the east.

Since its independence from France in 1960, the sovereign state of Gabon has had 3 presidents. In the 1990s, it introduced a multi-party system and a democratic constitution that aimed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed some governmental institutions. With petroleum and foreign private investment, it has the fifth highest HDI in the region (after Mauritius, Seychelles, Botswana and South Africa) and the fifth highest GDP per capita (PPP) in all of Africa (after Seychelles, Mauritius, Equatorial Guinea and Botswana). Its GDP grew by more than 6% per year from 2010 to 2012.

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