Médouneu is a small town in northern

Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

. It is the capital of the Haut-Ntem Department in

Woleu-Ntem Woleu-Ntem is the northernmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 38,465 km and named after Woleu and Ntem rivers that cross it. The provincial capital is Oyem, which had a total of 60,685 inhabitants in 2013. As Woleu-Ntem i ...

province. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 2,445. The town is served by

Médouneu Airport Médouneu Airport (French: ''Aéroport de Médouneu'') is an airport serving Médouneu in Woleu-Ntem Province, Gabon. The runway is west of the village. See also *Transport in Gabon *List of airports in Gabon This is a list of airports in G ...

. Although Médouneu lies entirely outside the de-jure boundaries of Gabon and inside the ones of Equatorial Guinea, the latter does not claim sovereignty over it in order to avoid a similar conflict around

Ebibeyin Ebibeyin ( ) is a town in the northeastern corner of mainland Equatorial Guinea. It is the capital of the province of Kié-Ntem. It lies very close to the Equatorial Guinea-Gabon-Cameroon tripoint. It is the end point of three main transport rou ...

, the third most populous city in Equatorial Guinea after Bata and

Malabo Malabo ( , ; formerly ) is the capital of Equatorial Guinea in the province of Bioko Norte. It is located on the north coast of the island of Bioko (, and as ''Fernando Pó'' by the Europeans). In 2018, the city had a population of approxim ...

, but which has a large part of its territory within the de-jure boundaries of Gabon.

References

Populated places in Woleu-Ntem Province {{Gabon-geo-stub