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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

Libreville , city (1993 est. pop. 362,400), capital of Gabon, a port on the Gabon River estuary, near the Gulf of Guinea. Primarily an administrative center, it is also a trade center for a lumbering region. The city was founded in 1843 as a French trading station. Freed slaves were sent there, and in 1848 it was named Libreville [Fr.,=freetown]. It was the chief port of French Equatorial Africa before the development (1934-46) of Pointe-Noire , in the Congo. Gabon's school of administration and school of law are in Libreville. An international airport is nearby.

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