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Port-Gentil

Port-Gentil , city (1993 est. pop. 80,041), W Gabon, a seaport on Cape Lopez Bay (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean). Timber and locally manufactured plywood are exported. Petroleum is produced and refined nearby.

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Port‐Gentil, Gabon Developed from a commercial settlement and named after the French colonial administrator, Émile Gentil (1866–1914), governor of the French Congo (1904–8).

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