Oyem
Oyem, also known by the Fang name Nkoum Ekiègn, is a city in northern Gabon and the capital of Woleu-Ntem Province and of the Woleu Department. Situated on a plateau in the northern interior of the country, it lies on the N2 road that links Libreville to the Cameroonian border at Kyé-Ossi.
Oyem
- Type: City with 35,000 residents
- Description: city in Gabon
- Categories: city in Gabon and locality
- Location: Woleu-Ntem Province, Gabon, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.5998° or 1° 35′ 59″ north
Longitude
11.5751° or 11° 34′ 30″ east
Population
35,000
Elevation
656 metres (2,152 feet)
IATA airport code
OYE
United Nations Location Code
GA OYE
Open location code
6FHHHHXG+W2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Oyem” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوييم”
- Armenian: “Օյեմ”
- Bashkir: “Оем”
- Belarusian: “Аем”
- Bulgarian: “Ойем”
- Cebuano: “Oyem (kapital sa lalawigan sa Gabon)”
- Cebuano: “Oyem”
- Chinese: “奥耶姆”
- Chinese: “奧耶姆”
- Croatian: “Oyem”
- Czech: “Oyem”
- Danish: “Oyem”
- Dutch: “Oyem”
- Estonian: “Oyem”
- Finnish: “Oyem”
- French: “Oyem”
- Galician: “Oyem”
- Georgian: “ოემი”
- German: “Oyem”
- Hebrew: “אויים”
- Hungarian: “Oyem”
- Indonesian: “Oyem”
- Italian: “Oyem”
- Japanese: “オイェム”
- Korean: “오옘”
- Kotava: “Oyem”
- Lithuanian: “Ojemas”
- Macedonian: “Ојем”
- Moksha: “Оем”
- Northern Frisian: “Oyem”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oyem”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oyem”
- Polish: “Oyem”
- Portuguese: “Oyem”
- Romanian: “Oyem”
- Russian: “Оем”
- Russian: “Ойем”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oyem”
- Slovak: “Oyem”
- Spanish: “Oyem”
- Swahili: “Oyem”
- Swedish: “Oyem”
- Tagalog: “Oyem”
- Turkish: “Oyem”
- Ukrainian: “Оєм”
- Urdu: “اوییم”
- Vietnamese: “Oyem”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oyem”
- Zulu: “Oyem”
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