Republic o Equatorial Guinea
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Motto:
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Anthem: Caminemos pisando las sendas de nuestra inmensa felicidad (Spaingie) Let us walk the paths of our immense happiness | |
![]() Location o Equatorial Guinea (dark blue) – in Africa (light blue & dark grey) | |
Caipital | Malabob 3°45′N 8°47′E / 3.750°N 8.783°E |
Lairgest ceety | Bata |
Offeecial leids | Spaingie (naitional leid) French Portuguese[1][2] |
Recognised regional leids | Fang Bube Igbo Pidgin English Annobonese[3][4] |
Ethnic groups (1994[5]) |
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Govrenment | Dominant-pairty presidential republic |
• President | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo |
• Vice Preses | Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue |
• Prime Meenister | Francisco Pascual Obama Asue |
Legislatur | Parliament |
• Upper house | Senate |
• Lower house | Chamber o Deputies |
Unthirldom | |
• frae Spain | 12 October 1968 |
Aurie | |
• Total | 28,050 km2 (10,830 sq mi) (144th) |
• Water (%) | negligible |
Population | |
• 2014 estimate | 722,254[6] (150t) |
• Density | 24.1/km2 (62.4/sq mi) (187t) |
GDP (PPP) | 2010 estimate |
• Total | $19.286 billion[7] |
• Per capita | $25,929[7] |
GDP (nominal) | 2013 estimate |
• Tot | $15.580 billion[7] |
• Per capita | $20,581[7] |
HDI (2014) | ![]() medium · 138th |
Currency | Central African CFA franc (XAF) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (WAT) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (nae observed) |
Drivin side | right |
Cawin code | +240 |
ISO 3166 code | GQ |
Internet TLD | .gq |
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Equatorial Guinea, offeecially the Republic o Equatorial Guinea (Spaingie: República de Guinea Ecuatorial, pronoonced: [reˈpuβlika ðe ɣiˈne.a ekwatoˈɾjal]; French: République de Guinée Équatoriale, French pronunciation: [ʁepyblik də gi'ne ekatɔʁjal]; Portuguese: República da Guiné Equatorial, pronounced: [ʁɛˈpublikɐ dɐ ɡiˈnɛ ikwɐtuɾiaɫ]) is a kintra locatit in Middle Africae. Wi an aurie o 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi) it is ane o the smawest kintras in continental Africae. It is an aa the maist prosperous; housomeivver, the wealth is concentratit in govrenment an elite haunds, wi 70% o the population livin unner the Unitit Naitions Poverty Threshold o $2/day. It haes a population o 1,014,999.[9] It comprises twa pairts: a Continental Region (Río Muni), includin several smaw affshore islands lik Corisco, Elobey Grande an Elobey Chico; an an insular region containin Annobón island an Bioko island (umwhilie Fernando Po) whaur the caipital Malabo is situatit.
Annobón is the sootherenmaist island o Equatorial Guinea an is situatit juist sooth o the equator. Bioko island is the northrenmaist pynt o Equatorial Guinea. Atween the twa islands an tae the east is the mainland region. Equatorial Guinea is bordered bi Cameroon on the north, Gabon on the sooth an east, an the Gulf o Guinea on the wast, whaur the island naition o São Tomé an Príncipe is locatit atween Bioko an Annobón. Umwhilie the colony o Spainyie Guinea, its post-unthirldom name is suggestive o its location near baith the equator an the Gulf o Guinea. It is ane o the few territories in mainland Africae whaur Spaingie is an offeecial leid, besides the Spaingie ceeties o Ceuta an Melilla.
Equatorial Guinea is the third smawest kintra in continental Africae in terms o population.[10] It is an aa the seicont smawest Unitit Naitions (UN) member frae continental Africae. The discovery o sizeable petroleum reserves in recent years is alterin the economic an poleetical status o the kintra. Equatorial Guinea haes been citit as an example o the natural resource curse [citation needit]; its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita ranks 31st in the world;[11] housomeivver, maist o the kintra's considerable ile wealth actually lies in the haunds o ae a few fowk.
Equatorial Guinea haes ane o the worst human rights records in the warld, consistently rankin amon the "worst o the worst" in Freedom House's annual survey o poleetical an civil rights[12] an Reporters Without Borders ranks Preses Teodoro Obiang amang its "predators" o press freedom.[13]
Oot o 44 sub-Saharan kintras, Equatorial Guinea ranks 9t in terms o the Human Development Index (HDI) an 115th oweraw, which is amang the “medium” HDI kintras.
Equatorial Guinea is dividit intae seiven provinces (caipitals appear in parentheses):
The provinces are further dividit intae districts.
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Coordinates: 1°55′29.34″N 10°06′41.94″E / 1.9248167°N 10.1116500°E
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