Gabon

Facts

What the numbers say about Gabon

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 65.3× the size of Gabon.
• Gabon ranks 76th of 239 by area but only 147th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 7.8 people per km², Gabon is the 169th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Gabon lies at 1°S, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Gabon's main territory stretches about 696 km north to south and 644 km east to west.
• Our measured 260,000 km² is 2.9% below Wikidata's official figure of 268,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Gabon measures up

Gabon holds 0.9% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Middle Africa it is the 7th largest of 9.

Where Gabon sits

• Gabon's centre lies at 0.6°S, 11.8°E, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, about 70 km from the equator.
• It straddles the equator, spanning 4°S to 2°N.

If Gabon had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Gabon would have 325.6 million people. It has 2.0 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Gabon would have 967,000 people. It has 2.0 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 18.8 million.

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