Flags of Gabon

Gabon is accepted in 1960. The flag of the country represents tricolour with horizontally placed strips. From above there is a strip of green colour, in the middle - yellow, and below - dark blue. The green colour is a symbol of equatorial forests of the country, which wood formed the basic part of the Gabon’s economy. The yellow symbolizes the sun, which shined on the country every day of the year and also the equator, which pass over it. The blue color shows the connection of Gabon with the ocean and the navigation.

The Republic of Gabon is a state at the western coast of the Central Africa, located on both sides of the equator. It borders in northwest with Equatorial Guinea, in the north with Cameroon, in the east and the south with National Republic Congo. In the West waters of Atlantic Ocean wash it. From all former colonies in structure of the French Equatorial Africa, Gabon takes the last place on the population and the first - on the area of woods and stocks of minerals. Gabon is one of the richest states of Africa. From the end of 1960th years the main source of the prosperity of the country became an oil extraction which export brings about 75 % of receipts in the state budget.