The American Embassy is located in a remodeled bank overlooking the estuary near the heart of downtown Libreville
– Libreville, Gabon.
United States Embassy, Libreville

The city of Libreville lies along an estuary just north of the Equator on central Africa’s Atlantic coast.
A charming but sleepy small town for many years, Libreville grew rapidly in the 1980s as the Gabonese economy, fueled by petroleum production, expanded. That growth has slowed in recent years with the steady decrease in Gabonese petroleum production. Libreville’s population is an estimated 450,000, including more than 6,000 Europeans. Colonial-style buildings that once predominated have given way to multistory offices and apartments. Residential districts, where modern apartment buildings and houses abut African huts with corrugated iron roofs, surround the downtown core of the city. One side of the city is bounded by an estuary with palm-lined beaches; on the other side, new construction has pushed back the dense equatorial rain forest which covers 85% of Gabon.