The only sovereign African state with Spanish as an official language.
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Eq. Guinea
Republic of Equatorial Guinea ยท Guinรฉe รฉquatoriale
Africa
ยท Middle Africa
0Population
28.05Kkmยฒ of land
$8.13KGDP / person
MalaboCapital
- ISO codes
- GQ ยท GNQ
- Density
- 48 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French, Portuguese, Spanish
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (XAF)
- Dial code
- +240
- Internet domain
- .gq
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 2.3330ยฐ N, 8.9900ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Equatorial Guinean
- UN region
- Middle Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $11.03B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Eq. Guinea stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
156th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world population
Land area
145th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
115th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
157th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Eq. Guinea
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 1,355,986 people, the 156th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 5,662 of everyone alive.
Covers 28,051 kmยฒ, making it the 145th largest country here - about 10.8 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 48 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Malabo, at 3.75ยฐ N, 8.78ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 155,963.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Cameroon and Gabon.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Malabo.
The currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr).
Has 3 official languages: French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Malabo
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UTC+01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Malabo
Bioko Norte
3.7500ยฐ N, 8.7833ยฐ E
155.96K
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Eq. Guinea.