Gabon
Africa- To most people in this class, it is just another country. We do not know that much about it, and truthfully do not care to. For me, the only things that I knew of in Africa were Nelson Mandela, Egyptians and the pyramids, and that Kenya is a country there. Yet after this course, I have learned much that had never been presented to me before. Also, because of these student projects and papers, I have learned that there are more countries in Africa besides Kenya and Egypt. One of those countries is Gabon. Gabon is located in Western Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean at the equator and between Republic of the Congo and Equatorial Guinea. It's capital is Libreville and the total population is around 1,208,436. The total area of it is 102,000 square miles. So for us, that means it is about the size of Colorado. The climate is tropical, so it is almost always hot and humid. There is almost no rainfall between June and September, but the rainfall in the other months totals around 100 inches per year. The terrain consists of a narrow coastal plain, with a hilly interior, and savanna in the east and south. Some of Gabon's natural resources are petroleum, manganese, uranium, timber, gold, iron ore, and hyd
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Omar Bongo, Corisco Bay, Port-Gentil Gabon, June September, Animist Life, Credit Cards, Service Provider, Gabon August, Guinea It's, Bapounou Bateke, manganese uranium, 1000 people, gabonese people, oil production, equatorial guinea, six percent, five percent, crude oil,
Approximate Word count = 1270
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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