Gabon

Overview: All in all, gabon was an interesting country to study. Africa is one country that is often forgoten. even tough Survivor was filmed there and it looked like paridise. there is a lot more to it. it is the country with the most amount of death due to aids and other illnesses. this country was not my first choice but i am glad i got to research it. ~Abby~

Gabon was very interesting and until this project i never knew that survivor was filmed there. It was surpriseing that most of africa has aids and most money to help africa is given to help with that.

-chris-
 Statistics: It is thought that there is about 1,485,832 people currently living in Gabon. But that is a high esimate since the AIDs virus is killing thousands of people everyday. //00-14 years:// 42.1% (male 314,078/female 311,900) //15-64 years:// 53.9% (male 399,586/female 401,602) //65 years and over:// 3.9% (male 24,388/female 34,278) (2008 est.wfs) //-14 years:// 42.1% (male 314,078/female 311,900) //15-64 years:// 53.9% (male 399,586/female 401,602) //65 years and over:// 3.9% (male 24,388/female 34,278) (2008 est.)

Geography: Gabon is in western Africa bordering the Atlantic ocean. It is about the same size of Colorado. It is always really hot and humid. The natural resources include
 * natural gas[[image:http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:bz5x4YvlXU7JdM:http://www.refugees.org/uploadedImages/Investigate/Publications_and_Archives/World_Refugee_Survey/Maps/Gabon.jpg width="123" height="110" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.refugees.org/uploadedImages/Investigate/Publications_and_Archives/World_Refugee_Survey/Maps/Gabon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.refugees.org/countryreports.aspx%3Fid%3D755&usg=__tpON08rt1JVLrCC25qDwAj7IRHk=&h=349&w=390&sz=45&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=bz5x4YvlXU7JdM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgabon%2Bmaps%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den"]][[image:http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ZY7d5xoD765MxM:http://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/Africa/images/Gabon-Little-Bee-eater448.jpg width="127" height="95" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/Africa/images/Gabon-Little-Bee-eater448.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.africanbirdclub.org/countries/Africa/introduction.html&usg=__o8LjPkBs5Zyw3tFeA3MGO5UtTXg=&h=336&w=448&sz=48&hl=en&start=35&tbnid=ZY7d5xoD765MxM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGabon%2Bwildlife%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20"]]
 * dimond
 * gold
 * and iron.

History: The region that is now Gabon was inhabited in Paleolithic times.

Economy: Gabon's economy is dominated by oil. Oil revenues comprise 65% of the Government of Gabon budget. _While some parts of Gabon are luxury other parts are in real troubled parts.

Government: Only two autocratic presidents have ruled Gabon since the independence from france in 1960. The current seving president, El Hadj Omar BONGO Ondimba, is one of the current longest head of state in the world.

Religion
 * Christian 55%-75%, animist, Muslim less than 1%. even though people think Afica is mostly Mulsims it is Accualy mostly Christans. **

this is a mask from the african culture. Culture:

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Last year on Survivor the teams were lucky enough to be casted in Gabon. -Even though struggling with the AIDS virus, Gabon, is still a very social country. They allowed 16 Americans to enter there country for 30 days in one of the biggest contests of the year.

These are helpful webites that i have found informationg on:  [] [] [|htthttp://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Gabon/Background.htmlps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gb.html] []