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Gabon: An Example For All of Africa


The country of Gabon is praised as being one of the most successful
countries in Africa. Gabon is a very diverse country in many ways. There are a
variety of different tribes that call Gabon home. Also, the land differs
through out the county.
Gabon is one of the smaller countries of Africa with the area of 267,670
square miles. Comparatively, this is the almost the same size as Colorado. The
terrain of this tiny country consists of narrow coastal plains; a hilly
interior; and Savannah in the east and south. Much of the interior is rain
forests and is not arable. Only 1% of the land is arable The remaining land is
either meadows, permanent crops, or other land forms. (The World Fact Book
1995)
Gabon is one of the most thinly populated countries in Africa. It has a
population of approximately 1,155,000 (July 1995 est.) There are 11 people per
square mile. The majority of the Gabonese are of ages 15-64 years. The average
life......

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