OYEM
Oyem, also known by the Fang name Nkoum Ekiègn, is a city in northern Gabon and the capital of Woleu-Ntem Province and of the Woleu Department. Situated on a plateau in the northern interior of the country, it lies on the N2 road that links Libreville to the Cameroonian border at Kyé-Ossi. With 60,685 inhabitants recorded at the 2013 general census, Oyem ranks as the fifth most populous urban commune in Gabon, after Libreville, Port-Gentil, Franceville and Owendo.
The town serves as the main administrative, commercial and religious hub of the Fang-speaking north of Gabon and is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oyem. It was founded as a French colonial military post at the beginning of the twentieth century, transferred to the German Empire between 1911 and 1916 as part of Neukamerun, and retaken by French forces during the Kamerun campaign of the First World War. Since the late colonial period Oyem has been the agricultural capital of the Woleu-Ntem, producing the bulk of Gabonese cocoa and coffee, and has functioned as a cross-border logistics node with Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
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