Ngabe is a

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in the

Djoué-Léfini Department Djoué-Léfini is a department of the Republic of the Congo. It was created on 8 October 2024 from the northern part of Pool Department. Its capital is Odziba. It is named after the Djoué and Lefini rivers. Geography and climate Djoué-Léfi ...

of south-eastern

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...

. The capital lies at Ngabe.

Towns and villages

Mbé A town in the Republic of the Congo, Mbé is located in the Ngabe District of the Department of Pool, approximately 200 km northeast of Brazzaville. A village in Cameroon, Adamoua region, Vina North Site Description The royal domain of ...

was added to the

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Tentative List on June 12, 2008, in the Cultural category.

Notable people

Ngalifourou Ngalifourou (1864 – 8 June 1956) was a queen of the Mbé region in what is today the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville). As a ruler she was close to French colonial authorities and was the first ruler in her region to sign a treaty with them. ...

, queen and ally of the French colonisers.

References

Djoué-Léfini Department Districts of the Republic of the Congo {{RCongo-geo-stub