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Gabon straddles the equator, occupying a total landmass of
267,668 kilometres on the African West Coast. Cameroon and
Equatorial Guinea border it to the north, the Atlantic Ocean
to the west, and Congo to the south. It has humid tropical
climate, with an average temperature of about 800F or 270C
The economy is based on a mixture of agriculture, industrial
manufacturing, and forestry. Its dense tropical forests contain
valuable trees which include: mahogany, kevazingo, and ebony.
Its resource deposits include: uranium, petroleum, natural
gas, manganese, and iron ore.
Cassava, corn, peanuts, sugarcane, plantain, coffee, bananas,
palm oil, and cocoa are farmed for domestic and export purposes.
Gabon contains a plateau straddling the country, and rising
to about 600 metres at its peak, a mountain, Iboundji that
is over 950 metres high, and rivers emptying into the Atlantic
Ocean; the total landscape being punctuated by its dense tropical
forests
The capital is Libreville.
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