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The department is the second tier of Gabon, between the nine provinces and the cantons and communes below. There are 49 of them, from Libreville, which is a department of its own, to the huge forest departments of the interior.
The departments of Gabon. They are the working subdivision of the provinces, each with a prefecture town of its own, and the borders on this map are the ones the quiz shares with Gabon Provinces: a province here is exactly its departments added together.
They are very uneven. Haut-Ogooué has the most, eleven, packed into the south east corner round Franceville, and Estuaire has five, one of them Libreville. At the other end Moyen-Ogooué has two, and the departments of the interior, such as Tsamba-Magotsi in Ngounié, cover thousands of square kilometres of forest with few roads. Libreville is under two hundred square kilometres, the smallest by far, and a tap area makes it reachable.
Most names are French renderings of local ones, with the accents the government writes: Zadié, Lopé, Ogooué-Létili. The map's source writes every acute accent as a grave one, and the quiz restores them.
The groups are the provinces, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each province answers under the same name in Gabon Provinces.
Libreville is the capital and the biggest city, and it counts as a department of its own inside Estuaire. It is tiny on the map, a small shape on the north side of the estuary, so it is the one you will most often reach for with a tap area.
Tsamba-Magotsi, in Ngounié, is the largest department in Gabon, about nine and a half thousand square kilometres of forest and savannah in the south west. Almost every department round it is easier to find than it is.
Bendjé is the department of Port-Gentil, the second city, on a sandy peninsula at the mouth of the Ogooué. It is in Ogooué-Maritime, with no road to the capital, and the oil that Gabon lives on is pumped from the sea off its coast.
49, spread over the nine provinces. Libreville is counted as one of the five in Estuaire.
The source writes every acute accent as a grave one (Zadiè, Ogoouè) and a few names have more than one spelling. The quiz uses the French ones with the acute: Zadié, Lopé, Ogooué-Létili.
The quiz groups them by province, so you can drill one province at a time. Each province is its own quiz as well.
The tier above this one is Gabon Provinces. For another country at this level, see Cameroon Departments.
