Named for the equator that crosses it, and the first country to grant constitutional rights to nature.
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Ecuador
Republic of Ecuador
South America
ยท South America
0Population
276.84Kkmยฒ of land
$6.18KGDP / person
QuitoCapital
- ISO codes
- EC ยท ECU
- Density
- 63 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +593
- Internet domain
- .ec
- Time zones
- 2
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 1.2590ยฐ S, 78.1880ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Ecuadorean
- UN region
- Americas ยท South America
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $107.44B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Ecuador stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
66th
of 242 ยท 0.23% of world population
Land area
75th
of 242 ยท 0.18% of world land
GDP per person
131st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
142nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Ecuador
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 17,373,662 people, the 66th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.23 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 276,841 kmยฒ, making it the 75th largest country here - about 9.1 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 63 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Quito, at 0.21ยฐ S, 78.50ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 1,701,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Colombia and Peru.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 2 time zones, from America/Guayaquil to Pacific/Galapagos.
The currency is the United States dollar (USD, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Guayaquil
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UTCโ05:00
Pacific/Galapagos
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UTCโ06:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Guayaquil
Guayas
2.2181ยฐ S, 79.9220ยฐ W
2.51M
2
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Quito
Pichincha
0.2130ยฐ S, 78.5020ยฐ W
1.7M
3
Cuenca
Azuay
2.9000ยฐ S, 79.0000ยฐ W
286.88K
4
Santa Cruz
Gal
0.5333ยฐ S, 90.3500ยฐ W
11.26K
๐ Peaks
Chimborazo
6,263 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Galรกpagos Islands
Wildlife
The finches, tortoises and marine iguanas that gave Darwin the shape of natural selection.
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Ecuador.