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Omboué
Omboué is a town located in Ogooué-Maritime province, Gabon. Geography It is the departmental capital of Etimboué Department. It is situated on the shores of the Fernan Vaz lagoon. It is 589 km away from the national capital, Libreville, by road, but about 200 km in a direct line. Languages The most commonly spoken languages in Omboué are Nkomi (a dialect of Myene) and French (the official language of Gabon). Facilities Within the town is a hospital, a government primary and secondary school, a hotel, a commercial port, a church and a marina pontoon. Notable people *Jean Ping - politician * Joseph Rendjambé * Charles Tchen Charles Tchen (born 17 September 1950 ) is a Gabonese engineer and businessman. He is currently the CEO of Independent Petroleum Consultants (IPC), and honorary consul of the Netherlands in Gabon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Ping
Jean Ping (; born 24 November 1942 in Omboué)UN profile page "Jean Ping Ministre des Affaires étrangères, de la Coopération et de la Francophonie" ''Jeune Afrique'', 5 January 2003 ."Gabon: Biographie du nouveau président de la Commission de l’Union Africaine, Jean Ping" Gabonews, 2 February 2008 . is a |
Fernan Vaz
Fernan Vaz Lagoon is a large lagoon on the Atlantic coast of Gabon. It is named for Fernão Vaz, the first European to reach it, and is known its wildlife and for the church at Mission Saint Anne, built in 1889 by Gustav Eiffel. The main settlement on the lagoon's shore is Omboué. Lagoons of Gabon {{Gabon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etimboué Department
Etimboue is a department of Ogooué-Maritime Province in western Gabon. The capital lies at Omboué Omboué is a town located in Ogooué-Maritime province, Gabon. Geography It is the departmental capital of Etimboué Department. It is situated on the shores of the Fernan Vaz lagoon. It is 589 km away from the national capital, Librevi .... It had a population of 5,723 in 2013. Towns and villages References Ogooué-Maritime Province Departments of Gabon {{Gabon-geo-stub ... [...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] |
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] |
Departments Of Gabon
The provinces of Gabon are divided into forty-nine departments. The departments are listed below, by province (capitals in parentheses): Estuaire Province *Komo Department (Kango) *Komo-Mondah Department (Ntoum) *Noya Department (Cocobeach) * Komo-Océan Department ( Ndzomoe) * Libreville (department & capital city) The Department of Cap Estérias ( Cap Estérias) was deleted in 2013. Haut-Ogooué Province *Djoue Department ( Onga) * Djououri-Aguilli Department (Bongoville) * Lekoni-Lekori Department ( Akiéni) * Lekoko Department ( Bakoumba) * Leboumbi-Leyou Department ( Moanda) * Mpassa Department (Franceville) * Plateaux Department ( Leconi) * Sebe-Brikolo Department ( Okondja) * Ogooué-Létili Department ( Boumango) * Lékabi-Léwolo Department ( Ngouoni) * Bayi-Brikolo Department ( Aboumi) Moyen-Ogooué Province * Abanga-Bigne Department ( Ndjole) * Ogooué et des Lacs Department (Lambaréné) Ngounié Province * Boumi-Louetsi Department ( Mbigou) * D ... [...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] |
Libreville
Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 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. History Various native peoples lived in or used the area that is now Libreville before colonization, including the Mpongwé tribe. French Admiral Louis Edouard Bouët-Willaumez negotiated a trade and protection treaty with the local Mpongwé ruler, Antchoué Komé Rapontcombo (known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myene Language
Myene is a cluster of closely related Bantu varieties spoken in Gabon by about 46,000 people. It is perhaps the most divergent of the Narrow Bantu languages, , Ehret, 2009. though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages
The Tsogo languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.30 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the languages form a valid node. They are:
: Tsogo (Getsogo), Himba (Simba), Pinzi, Vove, Kande
Nurse & ... (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe< ...
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Charles Tchen
Charles Tchen (born 17 September 1950 ) is a Gabonese engineer and businessman. He is currently the CEO of Independent Petroleum Consultants (IPC), and honorary consul of the Netherlands in Gabon."Charles Tchen" on CNBC Africa: The Gabon Energy Sector , ''Libreville, 02/06/2013'' (French) He is an administrator for Shell Gabon. Early life and education Tchen was born in Omboue, Gabon. He studied in Germany and graduated in 1972."Charles Tchen" Ophir Representative on InfoPlus Gabon''Libreville, 19/02/2008'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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