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Gabon (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 01 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -1.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 011 45 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 11.7500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area had Paleolithic settlements; Bantu-speakers immigrated around 100 BCE; Portuguese visited area in 15th century, naming it with word for a coat, after shape of Komo estuary; Dutch, British, and French traded here; was part of French Equatorial Africa; official language is French, though Fang, Myene, and Bateke dialects are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Gabon (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | used since 15th cen., from Portuguese "gabão," referring to a coat |
| Gabon (Faroese)
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| Gabon (Vietnamese)
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| Gabon (Northern Sami)
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| Gabon (French-P,U,N)
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| Gabon (Slovene)
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| Gabon (Malagasy)
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| Gabon (Polish)
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| Gabon (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Gabon (Breton)
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| Gabon (Indonesian)
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| Gabon (Italian)
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| Gabon (Shona)
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| Gabon (Maltese)
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| Gabon (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Gabon (Limburgan)
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| Gabon (Occitan)
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| Gabon (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Gabon (Swahili (generic))
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| Gabon (Welsh)
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| Gabon (Estonian)
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| Gabon (Croatian)
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| Gabon (Catalan)
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| Gabon (Cornish)
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| Gabon (Tagalog)
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| Gabon (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Gabon (Danish)
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| Gabon (Bosnian)
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| Gabon (Romanian)
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| Gabon (Czech)
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| Gabon (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Gabon (Norwegian)
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| Gabon (Greenlandic)
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| Gabon (Basque)
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| Gabon (Dutch)
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| Gabon (Turkish)
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| Gabon (Finnish)
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| Gabon (Pampanga)
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| Gabon (Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Gabon (Icelandic)
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| Gabon (Hausa)
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| Gabon (Slovak)
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| Gabon (Swedish)
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| Gabon (Ido)
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| République gabonaise (C,V,O,French,U,N)
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| République Gabonaise (C,V,French,U,N)
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| Gabonese Republic (C,O,English,U,N)
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| Gabun (C,O,German)
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| Gabun (Low German)
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| Gabun (Romansh)
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| Gaboon (C,O)
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| Gabon Republic (C,O)
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| Gabón (C,O,Asturian)
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| Gabón (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Gabón (Galician)
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| Gabón (Aragonese)
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| República Gabonesa (C,O)
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| Gabão (C,O,Portuguese)
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| Габон (C,O,Russian-P,U)
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| Габон (Serbian)
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| Габон (Bulgarian)
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| Габон (Belarusian)
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| Габон (Ukrainian)
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| Габон (Tajik)
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| Габон (Macedonian)
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| Габонская Республика (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 加蓬 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 加蓬共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| غابون (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| الجهور ةًا غًابوه ةَ (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| GAB (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GA (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO266 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| GB (C,O,FIPS)
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| Gabonese (C,O,English,U,A)
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| גבון (C,U,Hebrew )
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| An Ghabúin (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| El Gabon (C,U,Catalan)
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| Gaaboon (C,U,Somali)
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| Gabɔ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Gabhoni (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Gabɔn (C,U,Akan)
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| Gabɔŋ (C,U,Bambara)
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| Gabɔn nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Gabo (C,U,Rundi)
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| Gaboen (C,U,Afrikaans)
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| Gaboŋ (C,U,Wolof)
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| Gabona (C,U,Latvian)
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| Gabonas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Ga-bông (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Gabón - Gabon (C,U,Galician)
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| Ga-bông (Gabon) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Gaboni (C,U,Swahili (generic))
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| Gaboni (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gaboni (Albanian)
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| Gaboni (Kikuyu)
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| Gabonia (C,U,Albanian)
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| Gabonia (Latin)
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| Gabono (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Gaboo (C,U,Fulah)
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| Gaböon (C,U,Sangho)
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| Gaboon Republic (C,U)
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| Gabunän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Gjabon (C,U,Albanian)
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| i-Gabon (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kaponi (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngabu (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Gabon (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Qabon (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Territoire du Gabon (C,U)
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| الغابون (C,U,Arabic)
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| Գաբոն (C,U,Armenian)
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| গাবন (C,U,Bengali)
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| گابن (C,U,Pashto)
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| گابن (Persian-Farsi)
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| גאבאן (C,U,Yiddish)
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| ጋቦን (C,U,Amharic)
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| ጋቦን (Tigrinya)
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| گابون (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| گابون (Uyghur)
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| 가봉 (C,U,Korean)
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| ហ្គាបុង (C,U,Khmer)
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| ກາບອນ (C,U,Lao)
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| גאבון (C,U,Hebrew )
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| गाबोन (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| გაბონი (C,U,Georgian)
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| Ґабон (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| กาบอง (C,U,Thai)
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| ガボン (C,U,Japanese)
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| Γκαμπόν (C,U,Greek)
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| ประเทศกาบอง (C,U,Thai)
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| ගැබොන් (C,U,Sinhala)
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| गैबॉन (C,U,Hindi)
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| ગેબન (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ಗೆಬೊನ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| गॅबॉन (C,U,Marathi)
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| గేబన్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| الجابون (C,U,Arabic)
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| གེ་བཽན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ガボン共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| گیبون (C,U,Urdu)
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| गावोन (C,U,Nepali)
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| ഗാബോണ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ଗାବୋନ୍ (C,U,Oriya)
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| கேபான் (C,U,Tamil)
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| گابۆن (C,U,Kurdish)
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Additional Parents: |
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Gabon (nation) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1960 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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in French Community, 1958 |
| controlled region (H) |
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French, 1841-1960 |
| territory (H) |
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French, 1946-1958 |
| colony (H) |
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French, 1903-1910 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Libreville .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Gabon, Estuaire) [1090020] |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1960 |
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