{"id":30991,"date":"2023-08-31T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30991"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:43:44","slug":"key-facts-about-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gabon<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Republic of Gabon is\u00a0<strong>located at the Equator<\/strong> in\u00a0<strong>West-Central Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering countries: I<\/strong>t is bordered by\u00a0<strong>Equatorial Guinea\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Cameroon<\/strong> to the north and the\u00a0<strong>Republic of the Congo<\/strong> to the east and south.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<strong>former French colony<\/strong>, Gabon\u00a0<strong>retains strong ties to France<\/strong> and to the French language and culture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Independence<\/strong>: Gabon\u00a0<strong>gained independence from France on August 17, 1960.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Government<\/strong>: It is a\u00a0<strong>presidential republic<\/strong> where the<strong> president is both the head of state and the head of government<\/strong> of the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Libreville<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Language<\/strong>: Spoken languages are\u00a0<strong>French (official) and a variety of Bantu languages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Currency<\/strong>: The currency of Gabon is the C<strong>entral African CFA franc (XAF)<\/strong>, a currency used by five other African nations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>A large\u00a0<strong>majority of Gabon\u2019s population is Christian.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A small segment<\/strong> of the country\u2019s population\u00a0<strong>is Muslim.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Adherents of traditional religions also account for a small segment\u00a0<\/strong>of the population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>: It has an\u00a0<strong>equatorial climate,<\/strong> with\u00a0<strong>year-round high temperatures and humidity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Gabon&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>largest river is the Ogoou\u00e9.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>About<strong> three-fourths of the country is covered by a dense equatorial rainforest<\/strong> containing more than 3,000 species of vegetation.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>member of the United Nations, the African Union,<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Equator?<\/h3>\n<p>The Equator is an imaginary line that circles the Earth horizontally, dividing it into two equal halves: the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. It is situated equidistant from the North Pole and the South Pole and runs east-west around the Earth&#8217;s circumference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/world\/mutinous-soldiers-in-gabon-say-they-have-ousted-president-whose-family-has-ruled-for-55-years-539756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mutinous soldiers in Gabon say they have ousted president whose family has ruled for 55 years<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Gabon is located at the Equator in West-Central Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}