1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Gabon
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Libreville—846,090, Africa/Libreville, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of Gabon.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Libreville is GeoNames ID 2399697. Its recorded administrative path is Estuaire → Gabon, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Libreville occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2023-12-01; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Libreville ranks 659 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Gabon entries it ranks 1; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 130. Its 846,090 population value is 1.00 times the 846,090 median for the country cohort and 0.94 times the 902,588 regional median. Libreville is rank 1 among the 1 selected Gabon entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Libreville's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Libreville's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Douala at 407.466 km with 1,338,082 recorded people; Yaoundé at 449.202 km with 1,299,369 recorded people; Calabar at 522.958 km with 540,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 115.492 km. Compared with Douala, Libreville's recorded population is 0.63 times as large. Against Libreville, Douala follows Littoral → Cameroon in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Cameroon cohort rather than Gabon, uses Africa/Douala instead of Africa/Libreville, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Libreville's. Against Libreville, Yaoundé follows Centre → Cameroon in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Cameroon cohort rather than Gabon, uses Africa/Douala instead of Africa/Libreville, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Libreville's. Against Libreville, Calabar follows Calabar Municipal → Cross River State → Nigeria in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Nigeria cohort rather than Gabon, uses Africa/Lagos instead of Africa/Libreville, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Libreville's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,165 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Libreville's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 2399697, the coordinate pair 0.3924 / 9.4536, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 2232593 at 407.466 km bind Libreville to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Libreville's reference point is 0.3924° north and 9.4536° east. The IANA identifier Africa/Libreville is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Libreville's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Libreville's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Libreville's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Libreville, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Libreville's closest other entries in this atlas are Douala (407.466 km), Yaoundé (449.202 km), Calabar (522.958 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-12-01; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.