Ntoum or Nkan is a town in

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 ...

in northwestern

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 is the capital of the

Komo-Mondah Department Komo-Mondah is a department in the Estuaire Province in western Gabon. The capital is located in Ntoum with a population of 90,096 as of 2013. Towns and villages * Ntoum Famous people Well-known people from the Department include Paul Biyogh ...

. Nkan lies along the N1 road and L106 road, 39.2 kilometres by road east of

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 inh ...

and 12.2 kilometres north of Nzamaligue.

Demographics

In the 2013 census it had a population of 51,954. In the 1993 census it had a population of 6,188 and in 2012 an estimated population of 11,754.

Transport

It is served by Nkan Airport. It is located on the

Trans-Gabon Railway The Trans-Gabon Railway (french: Transgabonais) is the only railway in Gabon. It runs east from Owendo port station in Libreville to Franceville via numerous stations, the main ones being Ndjolé, Lopé, Booué, Lastoursville and Moanda. H ...

and is the proposed junction for the line to the iron ore exporting port of Santa Clara.

Industry

Ntoum has an integrated cement plant.

References

Populated places in Estuaire Province Komo-Mondah Department Gabon geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Gabon-geo-stub