Central Africa
Gabon
Haut-Ogooué Province

Franceville

Franceville is one of the four largest cities in , with a population of 110,568 at the 2013 census. It lies on the Mpassa River and at the end of the Trans-Gabon Railway and the N3 road. It grew from a village named Masuku.
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  • Type: City with 56,000 residents
  • Description: City in Gabon, West Africa
  • Also known as: “Masuku”

Franceville

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
node 254528943
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2400555
Wiki­data ID
Q459369
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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”
  • 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: “فرانکیویلی”
  • 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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