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Libreville
Estuaire, Gabon · Africa
About Libreville
Libreville sits on the route: 25 minutes from Owendo.
Libreville is in Estuaire, Gabon, with about 850,000 people. The nearest town is Owendo, about 13 km away.
Libreville (; French: [libʁəvil]) 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 wasRead more
703,904.
The area has been inhabited by the Mpongwe people since before the French acquired the land in 1839. It was later an American Christian mission, and a slave resettlement site, before becoming the chief port of the colony of French Equatorial Africa. By the time of Gabonese independence in 1960, the city was a trading post and minor administrative centre with a population of 32,000. Since 1960, Libreville has grown rapidly and now is home to one-third of the national population.
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Libreville is in Estuaire, Gabon, about 13 km from Owendo.
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- Population
- 846,090
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Gabon
- Region
- Estuaire
- Timezone
- Africa/Libreville
- Coordinates
- 0.3924, 9.4536
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