Map of Gabon

Gabon is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 1.0° S, 11.8° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Republic of the Congo — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Gabon is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Gabon shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Gabon covers about 267,668 km² (103,347 sq mi). That makes it the 76th-largest country in the world by area and the 30th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 24 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 2,469,296, the 141st-largest in the world and the 42nd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Gabon has an average population density of about 9 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 42nd by population and 30th by area.

The seat of government is Libreville, and the official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Gabon carries the ISO country codes GA and GAB, dials on the international calling code +241 and uses the .ga internet domain.

Gabon shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Cameroon (capital Yaoundé, about 29,442,327 people), Republic of the Congo (capital Brazzaville, about 6,142,180 people) and Equatorial Guinea (capital Ciudad de la Paz, about 1,668,768 people).

By area, Gabon is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 1.0° S, 11.8° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Gabon within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Libreville. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Gabon lies about 111 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Gabon keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr).

The official language is French, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +241 and websites commonly use the .ga internet domain.

In short, Gabon is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Libreville. Gabon has a population of about 2,469,296 and covers around 267,668 km² (103,347 sq mi), ranking it 141st in the world by population and 76th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Gabon.

The flag of Gabon is composed of three equal horizontal bands of green, yellow and blue.

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