Franceville
Franceville is a city in southeastern Gabon and the capital of Haut-Ogooué Province. The 2013 general population and housing census recorded the city's population at 110,568, making it the third-largest commune in the country after Libreville and Port-Gentil.
- Type: City with 56,000 residents
- Description: City in Gabon, West Africa
- Also known as: “Masuku”
Franceville
- Category: locality
- Location: Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon, Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-1.6344° or 1° 38′ 4″ south
Longitude
13.5895° or 13° 35′ 22″ east
Population
56,000
Elevation
405 metres (1,329 feet)
IATA airport code
MVB
United Nations Location Code
GA MVB
Open location code
6FCM9H8Q+6Q
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—“Franceville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فرانسفيل”
- Asturian: “Franceville”
- Basque: “Franceville”
- Belarusian: “Франсвіль”
- Belarusian: “Франсьвіль”
- Bengali: “ফ্রান্সভিল”
- Breton: “Franceville”
- Bulgarian: “Франсвил”
- Catalan: “Franceville”
- Cebuano: “Franceville”
- Chinese: “弗朗斯維爾”
- Chinese: “弗朗斯维尔”
- Chinese: “法蘭西城”
- Chinese: “法蘭西維爾”
- Croatian: “Franceville”
- Danish: “Franceville”
- Danish: “Masuku”
- Dutch: “Franceville”
- Dutch: “Masuku”
- Esperanto: “Franceville”
- Esperanto: “Masuku”
- Estonian: “Franceville”
- Finnish: “Franceville”
- French: “Franceville”
- French: “Masuku”
- Georgian: “ფრანსვილი”
- German: “Franceville”
- German: “Masuku”
- Greek: “Φρανσβίλ”
- Guarani: “Franceville”
- Gujarati: “ફ્રાન્સવિલ”
- Hebrew: “פרנסוויל”
- Hindi: “बोलाबो”
- Hungarian: “Franceville”
- Hungarian: “Masuku”
- Indonesian: “Franceville”
- Italian: “Franceville”
- Italian: “Masuku”
- Japanese: “フランスヴィル”
- Kannada: “ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸ್ವಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kongo: “Masuku”
- Korean: “프랑스빌”
- Kotava: “Franceville”
- Latvian: “Fransvila”
- Lingala: “Franceville”
- Lithuanian: “Franceville”
- Lithuanian: “Fransvilis”
- Macedonian: “Франсвил”
- Malay: “Franceville”
- Marathi: “फ्रान्सविले”
- Moksha: “Франсвиль”
- Northern Frisian: “Franceville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Franceville”
- Norwegian: “Franceville”
- Persian: “فرانسویل”
- Polish: “Franceville”
- Polish: “Masuku”
- Portuguese: “Franceville”
- Pushto: “فرانسویل”
- Romanian: “Franceville”
- Russian: “Франсвиль”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Masuku”
- Sinhala: “ෆ්රන්චිවිලි”
- Spanish: “Franceville”
- Spanish: “Masuku”
- Swahili: “Masuku”
- Swedish: “Franceville”
- Swedish: “Masuku”
- Tamil: “பிரான்சேவில்லே”
- Telugu: “ఫ్రాన్స్విల్లీ”
- Thai: “ฟร็องส์วีล”
- Tosk Albanian: “Franceville”
- Turkish: “Franceville”
- Ukrainian: “Франсвіль”
- Urdu: “فرانسویل”
- Vietnamese: “Franceville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Franceville”
- Wu Chinese: “弗朗斯維爾”
- Yue Chinese: “法蘭西維爾”
- Zulu: “Franceville”
- “Franceville”
- “Masuku”
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