Libreville

Libreville is 's largest city and capital. It is a port city of 703,904 that is home to one third of the country's population.
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  • Type: City with 850,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Gabon
  • Also known as: “Libreville, Gabon”
Photo: Delrick Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mont-Bouët and Libreville Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption Cathedral.

Marketplace
Photo: Estrella230, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Marché du is an open-air market located in the 3rd arrondissement of Libreville, the capital of . Widely described as the largest market in Gabon, it serves as the principal commercial hub of the capital and a major centre of wholesale and retail distribution for food, textiles and manufactured goods.

Church
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Libreville

Latitude
0.4087° or 0° 24′ 31″ north
Longitude
9.4419° or 9° 26′ 31″ east
Population
850,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
LBV
United Nations Location Code
GA LBV
Open location code
6FGFCC5R+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27565068
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2399697
Wiki­data ID
Q3825
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Libreville” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Libreville”
  • Albanian: “Libreville”
  • Amharic: “ሊብረቪል”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة الغابون”
  • Arabic: “لبرفيل”
  • Arabic: “ليبرفيل”
  • Aragonese: “Libreville”
  • Armenian: “Լիբրևիլ”
  • Asturian: “Libreville”
  • Azerbaijani: “Librevil”
  • Balinese: “Libreville”
  • Bashkir: “Либревиль”
  • Basque: “Libreville”
  • Belarusian: “Лібрэвіль”
  • Bengali: “লিব্রভিল”
  • Bengali: “লিব্রেভিল”
  • Bosnian: “Libreville”
  • Breton: “Libreville”
  • Bulgarian: “Либревил”
  • Burmese: “လစ်ဗရီဗေးလ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Libreville”
  • Cebuano: “Libreville”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیبرێڤیل”
  • Chechen: “Либревиль”
  • Chinese: “Libreville”
  • Chinese: “利伯維爾”
  • Chinese: “利伯维尔”
  • Chinese: “自由市”
  • Chuvash: “Либревиль”
  • Cornish: “Libreville”
  • Croatian: “Libreville”
  • Czech: “Libreville”
  • Danish: “Libreville”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Libreville”
  • Dutch: “Libreville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليبرفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Liberurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Librevilo”
  • Estonian: “Libreville”
  • Extremaduran: “Libreville”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Libreville”
  • Finnish: “Libreville”
  • French: “Libreville”
  • Ga: “Libreville”
  • Galician: “Libreville”
  • Georgian: “ლიბრევილი”
  • German: “Libreville”
  • Greek: “Λιμπρβίλ”
  • Greek: “Λιμπρεβίλ”
  • Guarani: “Libreville”
  • Gujarati: “લાઈબ્રેવિલ”
  • Haitian: “Libvil”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Libreville”
  • Hausa: “Libreville”
  • Hebrew: “ליברוויל”
  • Hindi: “लिबरेविले”
  • Hindi: “लिब्रेविले”
  • Hungarian: “Libreville”
  • Icelandic: “Libreville”
  • Ido: “Libreville”
  • Iloko: “Libreville”
  • Inari Sami: “Libreville”
  • Indonesian: “Libreville”
  • Interlingua: “Libreville”
  • Interlingue: “Libreville”
  • Irish: “Libreville”
  • Italian: “Libreville”
  • Japanese: “リーブルヴィル”
  • Javanese: “Libreville”
  • Kabiyè: “Libreeviili”
  • Kabyle: “Libreville”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಬ್ರೆವಿಲ್ಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Либревиль”
  • Kirghiz: “Либревил”
  • Kirghiz: “Либревиль шаары”
  • Kongo: “Libreville, mbanza-kimfumu ya yinsi ya Gabon, yinsi ya Afelika ya kati-kati .”
  • Kongo: “Libreville”
  • Korean: “리브르빌”
  • Kotava: “Libreville”
  • Kurdish: “Libreville”
  • Latin: “Liberopolis”
  • Latvian: “Librevila”
  • Ligurian: “Libreville”
  • Lingala: “Libreville”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Libreville”
  • Lithuanian: “Librevilis”
  • Livvi: “Librevil’”
  • Lombard: “Libreville”
  • Luxembourgish: “Libreville”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Libreville”
  • Macedonian: “Либрвил”
  • Malagasy: “Libreville”
  • Malay: “Libreville”
  • Malayalam: “ലിബ്രവില്ലെ”
  • Maltese: “Libreville”
  • Marathi: “लिब्रेव्हिल”
  • Mazanderani: “لیبرویل”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Libreville”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Libreville”
  • Minangkabau: “Libreville”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიბრევილი”
  • Moksha: “Либрэвиль”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليبروڤيل”
  • Nepali: “लिब्रेभिल्ले”
  • Northern Frisian: “Libreville”
  • Northern Sami: “Libreville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Libreville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Libreville”
  • Norwegian: “Libreville”
  • Novial: “Librevil”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Liuravila”
  • Ossetian: “Либревиль”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਬਰਵਿਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Libreville”
  • Persian: “لیبرویل”
  • Piemontese: “Libreville”
  • Polish: “Libreville”
  • Portuguese: “Libreville”
  • Pushto: “لیبرویل”
  • Quechua: “Libreville”
  • Romanian: “Libreville”
  • Russian: “Либревиль”
  • Sardinian: “Libreville”
  • Scots: “Libreville”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Libreville”
  • Serbian: “Либрвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Libreville”
  • Shona: “Libreville”
  • Silesian: “Libreville”
  • Sindhi: “لبرويل”
  • Sinhala: “ලිබ්‍රේවිල්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Libreville”
  • Slovak: “Libreville”
  • Slovenian: “Libreville”
  • Somali: “Librefille”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیبرویل”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Libreville”
  • Spanish: “Libreville”
  • Swahili: “Libreville”
  • Swedish: “Libreville”
  • Tagalog: “Libreville”
  • Tajik: “Либревил”
  • Tamil: “லிப்ரவில்”
  • Telugu: “లైబ్రె విల్”
  • Thai: “ลีเบรอวิล”
  • Thai: “ลีเบรอวีล”
  • Tibetan: “ལིབ་རེ་ཝིལ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Libreville”
  • Turkish: “Libreville”
  • Udmurt: “Либревиль”
  • Uighur: “لىبرېۋىل”
  • Ukrainian: “Лібревіль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Libreville”
  • Urdu: “لبریویل”
  • Uzbek: “Librevil”
  • Venetian: “Libreville”
  • Veps: “Librevil‘”
  • Veps: “Librevil’”
  • Veps: “Librevil”
  • Vietnamese: “Libreville”
  • Volapük: “Libreville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Libreville”
  • Welsh: “Libreville”
  • Western Frisian: “Libreville”
  • Western Mari: “Либревиль”
  • Western Panjabi: “لبرول”
  • Wolof: “Libarwil”
  • Wu Chinese: “利伯維爾”
  • Yiddish: “ליברעוויל”
  • Yoruba: “Libreville”
  • Yue Chinese: “利伯維爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Libreville”
  • Zulu: “i-Libreville”
  • Zulu: “Libreville”
  • “Libreville”
  • “Libreville, Gabon”

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