Roughly 88 per cent forest, with 11 national parks covering more than a tenth of the country.
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Gabon
Gabonese Republic
Africa
ยท Middle Africa
0Population
267.67Kkmยฒ of land
$7.77KGDP / person
LibrevilleCapital
- ISO codes
- GA ยท GAB
- Density
- 8 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (XAF)
- Dial code
- +241
- Internet domain
- .ga
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 0.4380ยฐ S, 11.8360ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Gabonese
- UN region
- Middle Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $16.87B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Gabon stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
147th
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world population
Land area
78th
of 242 ยท 0.18% of world land
GDP per person
119th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
214th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Gabon
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,172,579 people, the 147th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 3,534 of everyone alive.
Covers 267,668 kmยฒ, making it the 78th largest country here - about 8.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 8 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Libreville, at 0.39ยฐ N, 9.46ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 578,156.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Cameroon, Congo and Eq. Guinea.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Libreville.
The currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Libreville
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Libreville
Estuaire
0.3854ยฐ N, 9.4580ยฐ E
578.16K
2
Port-Gentil
Ogoouรฉ-Maritime
0.7200ยฐ S, 8.7800ยฐ E
116.84K
3
Franceville
Haut-Ogoouรฉ
1.6333ยฐ S, 13.5833ยฐ E
42.97K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Gabon.