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Libreville

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Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, in western central Africa. [1]

60 relations: Administrative centre, Air Gabon, American International School of Libreville, Anthony Obame, Arsenal, Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C., Bank of West Africa (BAO), Battle of Gabon, Benguela Current, Blockade of Africa, Brazzaville, Cameroon, Capital districts and territories, Charles Tchen, Congo River, Congo–Ocean Railway, Cultural center, Daniel Cousin, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dry season, Estuaire Province, Estuary, Franceville, Freetown, French Congo, French Equatorial Africa, Gabon, Gabon Airlines, Gabon Express, Gabon national football team, Gabonese Democratic Party, Gulf of Guinea, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Komo River, Léon-Mba International Airport, Libreville Hospital, Lycée Blaise Pascal de Libreville, Marcel Lefebvre, Mont-Bouët, Mpongwe people, Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Nightlife, Omar Bongo University, Owendo, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Pointe-Noire, Pongara National Park, Rapids, Raw material, ..., Republic of the Congo, Residential area, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Libreville, Shipbuilding, Trading post, Trans-Gabon Railway, Tropical monsoon climate, Ubangi River, Wet season, 2012 Summer Olympics. Expand index (10 more) »

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.

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Air Gabon

Air Gabon was the national, state-owned airline of Gabon, operating out of Libreville International Airport to a variety of destinations across Western and Southern Africa, as well as to Europe, South America and the Middle East.

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American International School of Libreville

American International School of Libreville (AISL) is an American international school in Libreville, Gabon.

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Anthony Obame

Anthony Obame Mylann (born 10 September 1988 in Libreville, Gabon) is a taekwondo practitioner who represented Gabon at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Arsenal

An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned.

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Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C.

AEL Football Club (ΠΑΕ ΑΕΛ), also known with its full name Athlitiki Enosi Larissa (translation), simply called AEL or Larissa, is a Greek association football club based in the city of Larissa, capital of Greece's Thessaly region.

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Bank of West Africa (BAO)

Banque d'Afrique Occidentale (also B.A.O. or BAO or Banque de l'AOF): (French for Bank of West Africa) was a bank French colonial authorities established in 1901 in Dakar, Sénégal, as the central bank of the colonies of French West Africa.

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Battle of Gabon

The Battle of Gabon (French: bataille du Gabon), also called the Gabon Campaign (campagne du Gabon) or the Battle of Libreville, occurred in November 1940 during World War II.

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Benguela Current

The Benguela Current is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre.

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Blockade of Africa

The Blockade of Africa began in 1808 after the United Kingdom outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves.

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Brazzaville

Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa.

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Cameroon

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Capital districts and territories

A capital district, capital region or capital territory is normally a specially designated administrative division where a country's seat of government is located.

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Charles Tchen

Charles Tchen (born 17 September 1950) is a Gabonese engineer and businessman.

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Congo River

The Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River) is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume of water (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of.

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Congo–Ocean Railway

The Congo–Ocean Railway (COR; Chemin de fer Congo-Océan, CFCO) links the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noire (now in the Republic of Congo) with Brazzaville, a distance of.

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Cultural center

A cultural center or cultural centre is an organization, building or complex that promotes culture and arts.

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Daniel Cousin

Daniel Michel Cousin (born 2 February 1977) is a Gabonese retired footballer who played as a striker.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Dry season

The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Estuaire Province

Estuaire is the most populous of Gabon's nine provinces.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Franceville

Franceville is one of the four largest cities in Gabon, with a population of around 110,568 (2013 census) people.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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French Congo

The French Congo (Congo français) or Middle Congo (Moyen-Congo) was a French colony which at one time comprised the present-day area of the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and the Central African Republic.

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French Equatorial Africa

French Equatorial Africa (Afrique équatoriale française), or the AEF, was the federation of French colonial possessions in Equatorial Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River into the Sahel, and comprising what are today the countries of Chad, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon.

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Gabon

Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa.

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Gabon Airlines

Gabon Airlines is the name of two incarnations of Gabonese airline, headquartered in Libreville.

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Gabon Express

Gabon Express was an airline based in Libreville, Gabon.

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Gabon national football team

The Gabon national football team, nicknamed Les Panthères (The Panthers) or Les Brésiliens (The Brazilians), is the national team of Gabon and is controlled by the Fédération Gabonaise de Football.

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Gabonese Democratic Party

The Gabonese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Gabonais, PDG), is the ruling and dominant political party of Gabon.

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Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean between Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.

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Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden), commonly known as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy with the large majority of its territory in Western Europe and with several small island territories in the Caribbean Sea, in the West Indies islands (Leeward Islands and Lesser Antilles).

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Komo River

The Komo is a river of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

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Léon-Mba International Airport

Léon-Mba International Airport is an airport situated in Libreville, Gabon.

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Libreville Hospital

Libreville Hospital (CHL) is the largest and most important hospital in Gabon.

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Lycée Blaise Pascal de Libreville

Lycée Blaise Pascal de Libreville is a French international school in Libreville, Gabon.

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Marcel Lefebvre

Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Roman Catholic archbishop.

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Mont-Bouët

The marché Mont-Bouët (Mont-Bouet market), in Libreville is Gabon's largest market, with hundreds of stalls selling fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry (live and dead), fabric, clothing, jewelry, household goods, traditional medicine and a variety of other goods.

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Mpongwe people

The Mpongwe are an ethnic group in Gabon, notable as the earliest known dwellers around the estuary where Libreville is now located.

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Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang

Nadège Noële Ango Obiang, born on December 20, 1973 in Libreville in Gabon is a Gabonese writer.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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Nightlife

Nightlife is a collective term for entertainment that is available and generally more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning.

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Omar Bongo University

Omar Bongo University (French: Université Omar Bongo) was founded as the National University of Gabon in 1970.

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Owendo

Owendo is a port city in Gabon, forming a south western suburb of Libreville.

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Pierre-Emerick Emiliano François Aubameyang (born 18 June 1989) is a Gabonese professional footballer who plays for English club Arsenal and captains the Gabonese national team.

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Pointe-Noire

Pointe-Noire (Ndindi) is the second largest city in the Republic of the Congo, following the capital of Brazzaville, and an autonomous department since 2004.

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Pongara National Park

Pongara National Park is a national park in Gabon near the capital Libreville along the Komo estuary and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Rapids

Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.

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Raw material

A raw material, also known as a feedstock or most correctly unprocessed material, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished products, energy, or intermediate materials which are feedstock for future finished products.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo), also known as the Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Residential area

A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Libreville

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Libreville is the Metropolitan See of the Latin Ecclesiastical province covering all Gabon.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Trading post

A trading post, trading station, or trading house was a place or establishment where the trading of goods took place; the term is generally used, in modern parlance, in reference to such establishments in historic Northern America, although the practice long predates that continent's colonization by Europeans.

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Trans-Gabon Railway

The Trans-Gabon Railway (Transgabonais) is the only railway in Gabon.

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Tropical monsoon climate

A tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category "Am".

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Ubangi River

The Ubangi River, also spelled Oubangui, is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River in the region of Central Africa.

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Wet season

The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreville

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