a city in Gabon, situated on the Atlantic, in the Ogooué River delta. Population, 45,000 (1970). Gabon’s leading seaport, Port-Gentil handled 5.2 million tons of cargo in 1973, primarily exports of petroleum and timber. The city has an international airport, a petroleum refinery, sawmills, and veneer factories, including Africa’s largest plywood factory. It also has food-processing enterprises, an oxyacetylene plant, shipyards, and a steam electric power plant. Petroleum and gas are extracted on the coast and the coastal shelf near the city.