Gabon
Coordinates: 1°S 12°E / 1°S 12°E
Gabonese Republic République gabonaise (French) | |
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Motto: "Union, Travail, Justice" (French) "Union, Work, Justice" | |
 Location o Gabon (daurk blue) – in Africae (licht blue & daurk grey) | |
| Caipital | Libreville 0°23′N 9°27′E / 0.383°N 9.450°E |
| Lairgest ceety | capital |
| Offeecial leids | French |
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| Govrenment | Dominant-pairty presidential republic |
• Preses | Brice Oligui |
• Prime Meenister | Alain Claude Bilie By Nze |
| Legislatur | Pairlament |
• Upper house | Senate |
• Lower house | Naitional Assembly |
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• frae Fraunce | August 17, 1960 |
| Aurie | |
• Total | 267,667 km2 (103,347 sq mi) (76th) |
• Water (%) | 3.76% |
| Population | |
• 2009 estimate | 1,475,000[1] (150t) |
• Density | 5.5/km2 (14.2/sq mi) (216t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2016 estimate |
• Total | $36.218 billion[2] |
• Per capita | $19,252[2] |
| GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate |
• Tot | $14.563 billion[2] |
• Per capita | $7,741[2] |
| Gini (2005) | 41.5[3] medium |
| HDI (2015) |  0.697[4]medium · 109th |
| Currency | Central African CFA franc (XAF) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
| Drivin side | right |
| Cawin code | +241 |
| ISO 3166 code | GA |
| Internet TLD | .ga |
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Gabon (/[unsupported input]ɡəˈbɒn/; French pronunciation: [ɡabɔ̃]), offeecially the Gabonese Republic is a state in wast central Africae sharin borders wi Equatorial Guinea tae the northwast, Cameroon tae the north, an wi the Republic o the Congo curvin aroond the east an sooth. The Gulf o Guinea, an airm o the Atlantic Ocean is tae the wast. It covers a land aurie o nearly 270,000 km² an haes an estimatit population o 1,500,000. Its caipital an lairgest ceety is Libreville.
Syne its unthrildom frae Fraunce on August 17, 1960, Gabon haes been ruled bi three presidents. In the early 1990s, Gabon introduced a multi-pairty seestem an a new democratic constitution that alloued for a mair transparent electoral process an reformed mony governmental institutions. Gabon is an aa a non-permanent member o the Unitit Naitions Security Cooncil for the 2010-2011 term. The sma population density thegither wi abundant naitural resoorces an foreign private investment hae helped mak Gabon ane o the maist prosperous kintras in the region, wi the heichest HDI in Sub-Saharan Africae.[5]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division (2009). "World Population Prospects, Table A.1" (PDF). 2008 revision. United Nations. Retrieved 12 Mairch 2009. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ↑ a b c d "Gabon". International Monetary Fund.
- ↑ "GINI index". World Bank. Retrieved 20 Apryle 2016.
- ↑ "2016 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2017.
- ↑ "Human Development Indices: A statistical update 2008 - HDI rankings". Human Development Reports. United Nations Development Programme. 2008. Retrieved 25 Januar 2009. [deid airtin]
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