Flag of Gabon
Officially Gabonese Republic
What the flag looks like
Three horizontal stripes of green, yellow and blue.
What it means
Green represents the forests, yellow the equator and the sun, and blue the sea.
How to remember it
Gabon
stacks green forest, yellow equator and blue ocean, and the equator really does run through the country; Sierra Leone
has white in the middle.
Fun facts
- The equator crosses Gabon, just as the yellow stripe crosses the middle of its flag.
- Libreville, 'free town', was founded in 1849 by people freed from a slave ship.
Gabon at a glance
- Capital
- Libreville
- Region
- Middle Africa
- Population
- 2.5 million
- Area
- 267,668 km²
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (FCFA)
- Flag adopted
- 1960
Flags often confused with Gabon
- Sierra Leone: Gabon and Sierra Leone both have green on top and blue at the bottom. The middle stripe tells them apart: yellow for Gabon, white for Sierra Leone.