Gabon
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| Location | West Africa, Africa |
| Leader | Gabon/President |
| Type |  nation state |
| Member of | African Union, Commonwealth of Nations, International Criminal Court, La Francophonie, Organisation of African Unity, UN |
| French speaking country on the west coast of Africa. | |
Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa.
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Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly 270,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) and its population is estimated at 2.3 million people.
Oil
Oil revenues constitute roughly 46% of the government's budget, 43% of the gross domestic product (GDP), and 81% of exports. Oil production declined from its higher point of 370,000 barrels per day in 1997.
Coups
A coup attempt failed on 7 January 2019.[1]
Another coup took place on 30 August 2023, when President Ali Bongo Ondimba was ousted.[2]
A citizen of Gabon on Wikispooks
| Title | Born | Died | Description |
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| Omar Bongo | 30 December 1935 | 8 June 2009 | President of Gabon for 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. |
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