Gabon

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
GA
ISO alpha-3
GAB
ISO numeric
266
FIPS 10-4
GB
GeoNames ID
2400553

Key facts

Capital
Libreville
Area
267,667 km²
Population
2,119,275
Currency
Franc (XAF)
Calling code
+241
Top-level domain
.ga
Official languages
fr-GA

Continent

Name
Africa
Code
AF
In this dataset
58 countries

Africa in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
-1
Longitude
11.75
Min latitude
-3.936856189796041
Min longitude
8.695567254000082
Max latitude
2.3224950160001185
Max longitude
14.498990519000131

Boundary

Gabon

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/GA?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 267667,
    "capital": "Libreville",
    "continent_code": "AF",
    "currency_code": "XAF",
    "iso3_code": "GAB",
    "iso_code": "GA",
    "name": "Gabon",
    "population": 2119275
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/GA/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=GA
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=GA
  • /v1/timezones?country=GA
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Name in other languages

Arabic
الغابون
Chinese
加蓬
English
Gabon
French
Gabon
German
Gabun
Hindi
गैबॉन
Italian
Gabon
Japanese
ガボン
Korean
가봉
Portuguese
Gabão
Russian
Габон
Spanish
Gabón
Total language variants
137

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Africa/Libreville UTC+01:00 UTC+01:00

First-level administrative regions

  • Estuaire
  • Province du Haut-Ogooué
  • Province de l’Ogooué-Maritime
  • Province du Woleu-Ntem
  • Province de la Ngounié
  • Province de l’Ogooué-Ivindo
  • Province de l’Ogooué-Lolo
  • Province du Moyen-Ogooué
  • Province de la Nyanga

9 of 9 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Libreville 846,090
Port-Gentil 164,018
Franceville 132,895
Owendo 95,313
Oyem 72,939
Moanda 71,099
Ntoum 62,445
Lambaréné 46,605
Mouila 43,342
Akanda 41,524

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
3,936
First-level regions
9
Postal codes
0
Name languages
137
Boundary polygon
Yes

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