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LIBREVILLE, GABON

    
    Libreville (Libreville) is the capital (since 1960) of Gabon, an administrative centre of range the Firth. The population of the city is about 286000 inhabitants. Libreville has been based in 1849 by the Africans liberated from a slaveholding vessel, and initially was called Gabon. In 1886 the city has become capital of colony Gabon, and two years later of the French Congo. In the beginning of the XXth century Libreville has turned to capital of the territory Gabon of the French Equatorial Africa. Before the construction in 1921 of Pwent Noir on the territory of the present Republic of Congo Libreville remained the largest seaport in the Western Africa. In 1960 the city has become capital of Gabon.
    Today Libreville is the biggest port on the Atlantic Ocean and the main transport unit of the country. From here rubber, palm oil, cocoa and tropical varieties of wood are exported. In the city the enterprises of alimentary, textile, wood-manufacturing industries, and shipyards are located. There is an international airport.
    Here there is the University of Lobster Bongo, colleges, museums, flock of modern buildings.

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