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Moyen-Ogooué Province
Moyen-Ogooué is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of . The provincial capital is Lambaréné. As of 2013, 69,287 people lived there. Unlike any other province of Gabon, Moyen-Ogooué has neither seacoast nor a foreign border. It borders the following provinces: *Estuaire Province – northwest *Woleu-Ntem Province – north-northeast *Ogooué-Ivindo Province – east *Ogooué-Lolo Province – southeast, at a quadripoint *Ngounié Province – south *Ogooué-Maritime Province – west-southwest Moyen-Ogooué borders all but two of the rest of Gabon's provinces, thus more than any other province. Departments Moyen-Ogooué is divided into 2 departments: * Abanga-Bigne Department (capital Ndjolé) * Ogooué et des Lacs Department (capital Lambaréné Lambaréné is a town and the capital of Moyen-Ogooué in Gabon. It has a population of 38,775 as of 2013, and is located 75 kilometres south of the equator. Lambaréné is based in the Central African Rainforest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), 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 three 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 fourth highest HDI in the region (after Mauritius, Seychelles and South Africa) and the fifth highest GDP per capita (PPP) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambaréné
Lambaréné is a town and the capital of Moyen-Ogooué in Gabon. It has a population of 38,775 as of 2013, and is located 75 kilometres south of the equator. Lambaréné is based in the Central African Rainforest at the river Ogooué. This river divides the city into 3 districts: Rive Gauche, Ile Lambaréné and Rive Droite. The Albert Schweitzer Hospital and the districts Adouma and Abongo are located on Rive Droite. The districts Atongowanga, Sahoty, Dakar, Grand Village, Château, Lalala and Bordamur build the Ile Lambaréné. The majority of the people in Lambaréné live in the district Isaac located on Rive Gauche. This district hosts the Lambaréné Airport. Today Lambaréné is inhabited mainly by Bantu ethnic groups such as the Fang, Bapounou, Eshira, and Myéné; these displaced the Pygmies to the east and north of Gabon. The main economic activity in the town is the fishery and a new port is under construction. Schweitzer The Franco-German Nobel Peace Prize winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores a higher level of HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the gross national income GNI (PPP) per capita is higher. It was developed by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and was further used to measure a country's development by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Human Development Report Office. The 2010 Human Development Report introduced an Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). While the simple HDI remains useful, it stated that "the IHDI is the actual level of human development (accounting for inequality), while the HDI can be viewed as an index of 'potential' human development (or the maximum l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), 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 three 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 fourth highest HDI in the region (after Mauritius, Seychelles and South Africa) and the fifth highest GDP per capita (PPP) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estuaire Province
Estuaire is the most populous of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km. The provincial capital is Libreville, which is also Gabon's national capital. The province is named for the Gabon Estuary, which lies at the heart of the province. Estuaire is at the northwestern corner of Gabon, its western edge as the shores of the Gulf of Guinea. To the north, Estuaire borders the Republic of Equatorial Guinea: the Litoral Province in the northwest, and the Centro Sur Province in the northeast. Domestically, it borders the following provinces: *Woleu-Ntem – east * Moyen-Ogooué – south-southeast * Ogooué-Maritime – southwest Departments Estuaire is divided into 6 departments: *Komo Department (Kango) *Komo-Mondah Department (Ntoum) *Noya Department (Cocobeach) *Cap Estérias Department (Cap Estérias) * Komo-Océan Department (Ndzomoe) *Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woleu-Ntem Province
Woleu-Ntem is the northernmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 38,465 km and named after Woleu and Ntem rivers that cross it. The provincial capital is Oyem, which had a total of 60,685 inhabitants in 2013. As Woleu-Ntem is the most northerly province of Gabon, it is the only province that borders Cameroon, and the only one with multiple foreign borders (other two being the Republics of the Congo and of Equatorial Guinea). It borders the following areas of these countries: * Sangha Department, Republic of the Congo – east *South Province, Cameroon – north * Kié-Ntem Province, Equatorial Guinea – northwest, north of Wele-Nzas * Wele-Nzas Province, Equatorial Guinea – northwest, east of Centro Sur and south of Kié-Ntem * Centro Sur Province, Equatorial Guinea – northwest, west of Wele-Nzas Domestically, it borders the following provinces: * Estuaire – southwest * Moyen-Ogooué – south * Ogooué-Ivindo – southeast Departments Woleu-Ntem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogooué-Ivindo Province
Ogooué-Ivindo Province is the northeasternmost of Gabon's nine provinces, though its Lopé Department is in the very center of the country. It gets its name from two rivers, the Ogooué and the Ivindo. This province, containing thousands of square kilometres of rainforest, is the largest and most sparsely populated and much less developed than the rest of the country. As of 2013 it had a population of 63,293 people. The principal town is Makokou. History In 1873–4, Antoine-Alfred Marche and Victor de Compiègne (the Marquis de Compiegné) explored the Ogooué River region. They arrived in Lopé in 1874 but encountered hostility from the Fang-Meke people at the mouth of the Ivindo. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza similarly made excursion to the region in November 1875 and between 1879 and 1882. In January 1995, a bout of the Ebola virus broke out in the forests of Ogooué-Ivindo. Nine out of 19 people died in the cases registered out of a population of 350 people. In 2010 it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogooué-Lolo Province
The Ogooué-Lolo Province is one of the nine provinces of Gabon, slightly southeast of central Gabon. The regional capital is Koulamoutou, a city of approximately 16,000 people. It is the ninth largest city in Gabon and the home of slightly more than one-third of the provincial population. * Area: 25,380 km² * 2-letter abbreviation/HASC: GA-OL * ISO 3166-2: GA-07 * Population (''2013''): 65,771 Its length runs from the 3 S to 2 N and from 10 E to 11 E. To the south, Ogooué-Lolo borders the Niari Region of the Republic of the Congo. Domestically, it borders the following provinces: * Ngounié – west-southwest * Moyen-Ogooué – northwest, at a quadripoint * Ogooué-Ivindo – north and northwest * Haut-Ogooué – east Departments Ogooué-Lolo is divided into 4 departments: * Lolo-Bouenguidi Department (Koulamoutou) * Lombo-Bouenguidi Department ( Pana) * Mouloundou Department (Lastoursville Lastoursville or Mandji is a city in east-central Gabon, lying on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quadripoint
A quadripoint is a point on Earth where four distinct territories meet. The territories can be of different types, such as national and provincial. In North America, several such places are commonly known as Four Corners. Several examples exist throughout the world that use other names. Usage The word ''quadripoint'' does not appear in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' or ''Merriam-Webster Online'', though it has been used since 1964 by the Office of the Geographer of the United States Department of State. and appears in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', as well as in the ''World Factbook'' articles on Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, dating as far back as 1990. History An early instance of four political divisions meeting at a point is the Four Shire Stone in Moreton-in-Marsh, England (attested in the Domesday Book, 1086, and mentioned since 969 if not 772); until 1931, it was the meeting point of the English counties of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngounié Province
Ngounié is a province of south-central Gabon covering an area of . Its capital is Mouila. At the 2013 census it had 100,838 inhabitants. In 2016, its governor was Benjamin Nzigou. History The province is named after the Ngounié River, which crosses it with its many tributaries. In December 1858 the French explorer Paul Du Chaillu navigated the Nguoiné river upstream to Fougamou. On his journey, he met several local tribes whom he described in his diaries of his second voyage. Later, Catholic missions were built in Mandji, Sindara, and Saint Martin, whose architecture attracts many tourists. Geography The geography varies from large expanses of savannah and forest to the Monts de Cristal in the north to the Chaillu and Ikoundou ranges further south. Steep sloping mountains abut plains and dense forests, savannah, lakes, and rich farmland. Population Estimated at 101,415 inhabitants, the population of the Ngounié includes significant ethnic diversity including Eshira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogooué-Maritime Province
Ogooué-Maritime is the westernmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 22,890 km. The provincial capital is Port-Gentil. It has a 2013 census population of 157,562. The shores of Ogooué-Maritime are of the Gulf of Guinea to the northwest and the South Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. It is the only coastal province without a foreign border. On land, it borders the following provinces: * Estuaire – north * Moyen-Ogooué – northeast * Ngounié – east *Nyanga – southeast Departments Ogooué-Maritime is divided into 3 departments: * Bendje Department (Port-Gentil) * Etimboue Department ( Omboue) * Ndougou Department (Gamba Gamba or Gambas may refer to: Geography *Gamba, Gabon, a port **Gamba Airport in Gamba, Gabon *Gamba, Chad, a town *Gamba County, Tibet People *Gamba (surname) *Gamba (footballer) (Carlos Alberto Gambarotta; 1893–1944), Brazilian footballer Ot ...) References Provinces of Gabon {{Gabon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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