Departments of Gabon
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The provinces of Gabon
Gabon
Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...
are divided into thirty-seven departments
Department (subnational entity)
Department is the name given to the administrative and political subdivisions of many countries.As a territorial unit, "department" was first used by the French Revolutionary governments, apparently to emphasize that each territory was simply an administrative sub-division of the united sovereign...
. The departments are listed below, by province (capitals in parentheses):
Estuaire ProvinceEstuaire ProvinceEstuaire is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km². The provincial capital is Libreville, which is also the national capital. The province is named for the Gabon Estuary, which is at the heart of the province....
- KomoKomo DepartmentKomo is a department of Estuaire Province in western Gabon. The capital lies at Kango....
(KangoKangoKango is a town in the Estuaire Province of Gabon, West Africa, lying on the Komo River and the N1 road. It has a station near the Trans-Gabon Railway, where the railway bridges the Gabon Estuary....
) - Komo-MondahKomo-Mondah DepartmentKomo-Mondah is a department of Estuaire Province in western Gabon. The capital lies at Ntoum.- Ecology:The Department contains the protected Mondah Forest....
(NtoumNtoumNtoum is a town located in Estuaire Province, Gabon. It is the capital of the Komo-Mondah Department.- Transport :* It is located on the Trans-Gabon Railway about 40 km east of the capital Libreville, and is the proposed junction for the line to the iron ore exporting port of Santa Clara....
) - NoyaNoya DepartmentNoya is a department of Estuaire Province in western Gabon. The capital lies at Cocobeach.-Towns and villages:The village Milembié is at 40km to Cocobeach when coming from Libreville...
(CocobeachCocobeachCocobeach is a town in northwestern Gabon, lying on the south bank of the Muni River. It is the capital of the Noya Department. It has a beach and is the main border town for Equatorial Guinea, ferries sailing to Cogo across the river and the border....
) - Cap Estérias Department (Cap Estérias)
- Komo-Océan Department (Ndzomoé)
Haut-Ogooué ProvinceHaut-OgoouéHaut-Ogooué is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It is named after the Ogooué River. It covers an area of 36,547 km². The provincial capital is Franceville. One of its primary industries is mining, with manganese, gold and uranium being found in the region. The uranium-bearing mineral Francevillite...
- DjoueDjoue DepartmentDjoue is a department of Haut-Ogooué Province in south-eastern Gabon. The capital lies at Onga....
(OngaOngaOnga may refer to:*Onga District, Fukuoka, a district of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan**Onga, Fukuoka, a town in that district*Onga, Hungary, a village*Onga, Gabon...
) - Djououri-Aguilli (BongovilleBongovilleBongoville is a town in south eastern Gabon, lying east of Franceville. It was known as Lewai until its renaming for President Omar Bongo, who was born in what was then a village but was greatly enlarged under his presidency. It lies just west of the Bateke Plateau and is home to a large stadium....
) - Lekoni-Lekori (AkieniAkiéniAkiéni is a small town in Lekoni-Lekori Department in Haut-Ogooue in north-eastern Gabon near the border with the Republic of the Congo.-External links:*...
) - Lekoko (BakoumbaBakoumbaBakoumba is a town in south eastern Gabon with a population of around 2,500 - 3000 people. It lies south west of Moanda and was the headquarters for the COMILOG Cableway, carrying manganese from Moanda to Mbinda in Congo-Brazzaville. The cable car closed in 1986.The town is known for Lékédi Park,...
) - Leboumbi-Leyou (MoandaMoandaMoanda is one of the largest towns in Gabon, lying on the N3 road in Haut Ogooué. It is also one of the most important manganese mining towns in the world, under the auspices of the Compagnie Minière de l'Ogooué , which began mining in 1957...
) - Mpassa (FrancevilleFrancevilleFranceville or Masuku is one of the four largest cities in Gabon, with a population of around 22,000 people. It lies on the River Mpassa and at the end of the Trans-Gabon Railway and the N3 road. It grew from a village named Masuku when Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza chose it to resettle former...
) - Plateaux (LeconiLéconiLéconi is a town in south eastern Gabon, lying east of Bongoville on the Léconi River, surrounded by the Batéké Plateau. It is known for the Léconi Canyons and Léconi Park, a private wildlife park also involved in agriculture....
) - Sebe-Brikolo (OkondjaOkondja-References:...
) - Ogooué-Létili (Boumango city)
- Lékabi-Léwolo (Ngouoni)
- Bayi-Brikolo (Aboumi)
Moyen-Ogooué ProvinceMoyen-OgoouéMoyen-Ogooué is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 18,535 km². The provincial capital is Lambaréné.Alone among the provinces of Gabon, Moyen-Ogooué has neither seacoast nor a foreign border...
- Abanga-Bigne (NdjoleNdjoléNdjolé is a town in Gabon, lying north east of Lambaréné on the River Ogooué, the N2 road and the Trans-Gabon Railway. It is known as a base for logging and as a transport hub. Ndjolé is the last city that can be reached by barge traffic traveling up the Ogooué River. Above Ndjolé there are...
) - Ogooue et des Lacs (LambarénéLambarénéLambaréné is the capital of the political district Moyen-Ogooué in Gabon. The city counts 24,000 inhabitants and is located 75 kilometres south of the equator....
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Ngounié ProvinceNgouniéNgounié is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 37,750 km². The provincial capital is Mouila.To the southeast, Ngounié borders the Niari Region of the Republic of the Congo...
- Boumi-Louetsi (MbigouMbigouMbigou is a town in south-eastern Gabon. It is the principal town in the Boumi-Louetsi Department in Ngounié ProvinceIt is served by Mbigou Airport....
) - DolaDola DepartmentDola is a department of Ngounié Province in southern Gabon. The capital lies at Ndende....
(NdendeNdende-In the Nyanga province, Gabon:*Moukogno Ndende*Two places that have the name Ndende...
) - Douya-Onoy (MouilaMouilaMouila is the capital of the Ngounié region of Gabon. It lies on the River Ngounié and the N1 road and has a population of about 20,000 people. Its main sight is the Lac Bleu, a lake known for its bright blue water....
) - Louetsi-Bibaka (Malinga)
- Louetsi-Wano (LebambaLebambaLebamba is a small town in south-western Gabon. It is the capital of Louetsi-Wano Department in Ngounié Province.The Bongolo American Mission Hospital, which is considered to be one of the best in Gabon, is located in Lebamba. The Hospital is staffed by American missionary doctors and is one of...
) - Mougalaba (Guietsou)
- Ndolou (Mandji)
- Ogoulou (Mimongo)
- Tsamba-Magotsi (FougamouFougamouFougamou is a small town in Ngounié Province in Gabon. It has a population of about 4,100 and is the capital of Tsamba-Magotsi Department. It lies along the west bank of the Ngounié River on the N1 road between Lambaréné and Mouila....
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Nyanga ProvinceNyanga (province)Nyanga province is one of Gabon's nine provinces. The provincial capital is Tchibanga, which had a total of 14,500 inhabitants in 2004 . Nyanga is the southernmost province of Gabon and is also the largest, least populated and least developed of the nine...
- Basse-Banio (MayumbaMayumbaMayumba is a town of about 2,500 people on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Gabon, at the end of the N6 road, lying on a peninsula separated from the mainland by the Banio Lagoon....
) - Douigni (MoabiMoabiMoabi can refer to:*Baillonella toxisperma, a tropical tree*Moabi , a city in Gabon...
) - Doutsila (MabandaMabandaMabanda is a city located close to the southern tip of Burundi, near the border with Tanzania.-References:Fitzpatrick, M., Parkinson, T., & Ray, N. East Africa. Footscray, VIC: Lonely Planet....
) - Haute-Banio (MinvoulMinvoul- External links :*...
) - Mongo (Binza)
- Mougoutsi (TchibangaTchibangaTchibanga is a city in the Nyanga Province of southern Gabon, situated on the Nyanga River. It has an estimated population of 24,000 . The town lies on the N6 road and is home to an airport and a market. It lies near the Ivela Falls....
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Ogooué-Ivindo ProvinceOgooué-IvindoThe Ogooué-Ivindo province is the northeastern-most of the nine provinces of Gabon. The regional capital is Makokou, which is home to one-third of the provincial population. It gets its name from two rivers, the Ogooué and the Ivindo...
- IvindoIvindo DepartmentIvindo is a department of Ogooué-Ivindo Province in northern-central Gabon. Its capital is Makokou....
(MakokouMakokouMakokou is the regional capital of the Ogooué-Ivindo province in Gabon. Its coordinates are . Its altitude is 308 m. Its population in 2004 is around 16,600.The city lies on the Ivindo River and the N4 road...
) - LopeLope DepartmentLope is a department of Ogooué-Ivindo Province in central Gabon. The capital lies at Booue....
(BooueBoouéBooué is a town located in Ogooué-Ivindo province, Gabon. Founded in 1883 by Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, the town lies on the Ogooué River which provided the main communication channel before the development of roads and railway.- Transport :...
) - Mvoung (Ovan)
- ZadieZadie DepartmentZadie is a department of Ogooué-Ivindo Province in northern-eastern Gabon. The capital lies at Mékambo....
(MekamboMékamboMékambo is a small village in on the banks of the Zadié river. It is located in the Ogooué-Ivindo province of Gabon. It has received international press for recent outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in 1994 and 1997.- References :...
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Ogooué-Lolo ProvinceOgooué-LoloThe Ogooué-Lolo province is one of the nine provinces of Gabon. The regional capital is Koulamoutou, a city of approximately 16,000 people. It is the ninth largest city in Gabon and the home of slightly more than one-third of the provincial population....
- Lolo-Bouenguidi (KoulamoutouKoulamoutouKoulamoutou is the capital of Ogooué-Lolo Province in central Gabon, with a population of around 16,000 people. It lies at the confluence of the River Lolo and the River Bouenguidi and on the N6 road. The town has an airport and had been developed by a Minister of Tourism born in a nearby...
) - Lombo-Bouenguidi (PanaPanaIn Inuit mythology, Pana was the god who cared for souls in the underworld before they were reincarnated.Pana also means "snow knife" in Inuktitut.Pana means "girlfriend; unmarried woman" in Lithuanian....
) - MouloundouMouloundou DepartmentMouloundou is a department of Ogooué-Lolo Province in eastern Gabon. The capital lies at Lastoursville.-Towns and villages:*Lastoursville*Mbonha*Mahouna*Mikouya...
(LastoursvilleLastoursvilleLastoursville or Mandji is a city in central Gabon, lying on the River Ogooué, the Trans-Gabon Railway and the N3 road. It was founded as a slave depot named Mandji, renamed Maadiville in 1883 and finally took its current name for François Rigail de Lastours in 1886...
) - Offoué-Onoye (Iboundji)
Ogooué-Maritime ProvinceOgooué-MaritimeOgooué-Maritime is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 22,890 km². The provincial capital is Port-Gentil. It has an estimated population of 137,993....
- Bendje (Port-GentilPort-GentilPort-Gentil or Mandji is the second-largest city of Gabon and a leading seaport. It is the center of Gabon's petroleum and timber industries. Although it lies inshore, the nearby mainland is a remote forest area and it is not connected by road to the rest of the nation...
) - Etimboue (OmboueOmboué-Notable people:*Jean Ping -politician...
) - Ndougou (Gamba)
Woleu-Ntem ProvinceWoleu-NtemWoleu-Ntem is one of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 38,465 km². The provincial capital is Oyem.As Woleu-Ntem is the most northerly province of Gabon, it is the only province that borders Cameroon, as well as bordering the Republics of Equatorial Guinea and of the Congo...
- Haut-Komo (NdindiNdindiNdindi is a small town in northern Gabon. It is the capital of the Haut-Komo Department in Woleu-Ntem province....
) - Haut-Ntem (MedouneuMédouneuMédouneu is a small town in northern Gabon. It is the capital of the Haut-Ntem Department in Woleu-Ntem province. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 2,445.The town is served by Medouneu Airport....
) - Ntem (Bitam)
- Okano (Mitzic)
- Woleu (OyemOyemOyem is the capital of Woleu-Ntem province in northern Gabon, lying on the N2 road and the River Ntem.-Geography:The town lies on a plateau at an elevation of about . It is the administrative and transport center for the surrounding agricultural area...
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See also
Provinces of GabonProvinces of Gabon
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