Libreville

[ French lee-bruh-veel ]

noun

1. a port in and the capital of Gabon, in the W part, on the Gulf of Guinea.

Libreville

/ librəvil /

noun

1. the capital of Gabon, in the west on the estuary of the Gabon River: founded as a French trading post in 1843 and expanded with the settlement of freed slaves in 1848. Pop: 649 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville.

From BBC

“The only match we were going to play in Gabon, in Libreville, was the final,” says Bwalya, by then the President of Zambia's football association.

From BBC

But in 2003, the Gabonese authorities said that almost immediately after take-off from the capital Libreville, the plane’s left-hand engine stopped working.

From BBC

A week after the military takeover, the deposed president was released from house arrest and is free to leave the country, but he has remained in the capital, Libreville.

From BBC

Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema took the oath in the presidential palace in Libreville.

From Seattle Times