Mounana is a town in

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 ...

. It lies on the N3 road and from 1958 until the 1990s was a major

uranium mining Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. Over 50 thousand tons of uranium were produced in 2019. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia were the top three uranium producers, respectively, and together account f ...

centre. The mine is now closed, and it is now primarily a centre for

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. According to the 1993 census it had a population of 6,372 and in 2013 it had an estimated population of 12,437.

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Populated places in Haut-Ogooué Province Uranium mines Mining in Gabon {{Gabon-geo-stub