Equatorial Guinea
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Equatorial Guinea
- Type: Country with 1,000,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in Central Africa
- Also known as: “Beaivvedási Guinea”, “Beaivvedási Guinea dásseváldi”, “Egyenlítői-Guinea-i Köztársaság”, “Ekváhtor-Guinea dásseváldi”, “Ekvator-Gvineo”, “Ekvatoral Gine”, “Ekvatorgvineo”, “Ekvatoriaal-Guinea Vabariik”, “Ekvatoriála Guinea dásseváldi”, “Equatoriaalguineyske Republik”, “GEQ”, “Ghuinea Chryss ny Cruinney”, “Gini a‘ Chrios-mheadhain”, “GNQ”, “gq”, “GQ”, “Guinea a‘ Chrios-mheadhain”, “Guinea Aequatorensis”, “Guinea Equaturiale”, “Guinea Meadhan-Chriosach”, “Guinee Equat.”, “Guinée Équatoriale”, “Guinee Espagnol”, “Guinée-Équatoriale”, “Gwinea Ekwatorjali”, “Päiväntasaajan Guinean tasavalta”, “Peeivitäsideijee Guinea täsiväldi”, “Peiʹvvtaʹssjeei Guinea tääʹssväʹldd”, “Poblachd Ghini Meadhan-Chriosaiche”, “Poblachd Guinea a‘ Chrios-mheadhain”, “Repubblica della Guinea Equatoriale”, “Repubblika tal-Guinea Ekwatorjali”, “Republic o Equatorial Guinea”, “Republic of Equatorial Guinea”, “República da Guiné Equatorial”, “República de Guinea Equatorial”, “Republica di a Guinea Equatoriale”, “Republica di a Guinea Equaturiale”, “Republiek Equatoriaal-Guinea”, “Republika Rovníkovej Guiney”, “Republiken Ekvatorialguinea”, “Republikken Ekvatorial-Guinea”, “République de Guinée équatoriale”, “Respubliko Ekvatora Gvineo”, “Ri̱pobi̱lik Gini A̱kwa̱toriya”, “Ripublica di a Guinea Equaturiale”, “Spanish Guinea”, “Δημοκρατία της Ισημερινής Γουινέας”, “Ареспублика Екваториалтә Гвинеиа”, “Республика Экваториальная Гвинея”, “Республіка Екваторіальна Гвінея”, “Экватордук гвинея”, “استوایي ګینه”, “इक्वेटरियल गिनी”, “赤几”, “赤幾”, and “赤畿”
- Languages: Spanish, French, and Portuguese
- Neighbors: Cameroon, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe
- Categories: sovereign state and locality
- Location: Central Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
1.58° or 1° 34′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
10.47° or 10° 28′ 12″ east
Population
1,000,000
Area
28,051 km² (10,831 miles²)
Elevation
741 metres (2,431 feet)
Capital
Currency
Franc (XAF)
Phone code
240
Internet domain
.gq
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Equatorial Guinea” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Екваториалтә Гвинеиа”
- Afrikaans: “Ekwatoriaal-Guinee”
- Akan: “Gini Ikuweta”
- Albanian: “Guinea Ekuatoriale”
- Albanian: “Guineja Ekuatoriale”
- Amharic: “ኢኳቶሪያል ጊኒ”
- Amharic: “ኢኳቶሪያል ጊኔ”
- Amis: “Equatorial guinea”
- Angika: “ईक्वीटोरियल गीनिया”
- Arabic: “غينيا الاستوائية”
- Aragonese: “Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Aragonese: “Guinea Equatorial”
- Armenian: “Հասարակածային Գվինեա”
- Arpitan: “Guinê èquatoriâla”
- Assamese: “ইকুৱেটৰিয়েল গিনি”
- Asturian: “Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Atayal: “Equatorial guinea”
- Azerbaijani: “Ekvatorial Qvineya”
- Balinese: “Guinea Ekuatorial”
- Balinese: “Guinéa Ékuatorial”
- Bambara: “Cemajan Gine”
- Bambara: “Cɛmajan Gine”
- Bambara: “Gine ekwatɔri”
- Banjar: “Guinea Katulistiwa”
- Bashkir: “Экватор Гвинеяһы”
- Basque: “Ekuatore Ginea”
- Bavarian: “Equatorialguinea”
- Belarusian: “Экватарыяльная Гвінея”
- Belarusian: “Экватарыяльная Гвінэя”
- Bengali: “নিরক্ষীয় গিনি”
- Bengali: “বিষুবীয় গিনি”
- Betawi: “Ginéa Katulistiwa”
- Bhojpuri: “भूमध्यरेखीय गिनी”
- Bishnupriya: “একুয়াটরিয়াল গায়ানা”
- Bislama: “Ekwetorial Gini”
- Bosnian: “Ekvatorijalna Gvineja”
- Bosnian: “Ekvatorska Gvineja”
- Breton: “Ginea ar C’heheder”
- Breton: “Ginea ar Cʼheheder”
- Bulgarian: “Екваториална Гвинея”
- Burmese: “အီကွေတာ ဂီနီ”
- Burmese: “အီကွေတာ ဂီရာနာ”
- Burmese: “အီကွေတာဂီနီနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “Guinea Equatorial”
- Cebuano: “Gineang Ekwatoryal”
- Central Bikol: “Guineyang Ekwatoryal”
- Central Kanuri: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Central Kurdish: “گینێی ئیستوایی”
- Chavacano: “Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Chechen: “Экваторан Гвиней”
- Chinese: “Chìdào Jīnèiyà”
- Chinese: “赤道几内亚 / 赤道幾內亞”
- Chinese: “赤道几内亚”
- Chinese: “赤道幾內亞”
- Chinese: “赤道畿內亞”
- Chuvash: “Экваториаллă Гвиней”
- Cornish: “Gyni an Kehysedh”
- Cornish: “Gyni Ekwadoriel”
- Corsican: “Guinea Equatoriale”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ekvatorial Gvineya”
- Croatian: “Ekvatorska Gvineja”
- Czech: “Rovníková Guinea”
- Dagbani: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Danish: “Ækvatorial Guinea”
- Danish: “Ækvatorialguinea”
- Dhivehi: “އިކުއެޓޯރިއަލް ގިނީ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Gineya Ekwatori”
- Dotyali: “इक्वेटोरियल गिनिया”
- Dutch: “Equatoriaal-Guinea”
- Dzongkha: “ཨེ་ཀུ་ཊོ་རེལ་ གི་ནི། Equatorial Guinea”
- Dzongkha: “ཨེ་ཀུ་ཊོ་རེལ་ གི་ནི།”
- Dzongkha: “ཨེ་ཀུ་ཊོ་རེལ་ གི་ནི”
- Eastern Mari: “Экваторийысе Гвиней”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جينيا الاستوائيه”
- Esperanto: “Ekvatora Gvineo”
- Estonian: “Ekvatoriaal-Guinea”
- Ewe: “Ekuatorial Guini nutome”
- Ewe: “Gini Ekwatoria”
- Extremaduran: “Guinea Equatorial”
- Faroese: “Ekvatorguinea”
- Fiji Hindi: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Finnish: “Päiväntasaajan Guinea”
- French: “Guinée équatoriale”
- Fulah: “Gine Ekwatoriyal”
- Fulah: “Ginee Ekuwaatoriyaal”
- Ga: “Ekuatoral Guinea”
- Gagauz: “Ekvatorial Gvineya”
- Galician: “Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Ganda: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Ganda: “Gayana ey’oku ekweta”
- Georgian: “ეკვატორული გვინეა”
- German: “Äquatorialguinea”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Gilaki: “اۊستوايي گينه”
- Greek: “Ισημερινή Γουινέα”
- Guarani: “Ginéa Ekuatogua”
- Guarani: “Gynéa Ekuatógua”
- Guianese Creole French: “Giné ékwatoryal”
- Gujarati: “ઇક્વેટોરિયલ ગિની”
- Gujarati: “ઈક્વેટોરિયલ ગિની”
- Haitian: “Gine ekwateryal”
- Haitian: “Gine ekwatoryal”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chhak-tho Guinea”
- Hausa: “Gini Ikwatoriya”
- Hausa: “Gini Ta Ikwaita”
- Hebrew: “גינאה המשוונית”
- Hebrew: “גיניאה המשוונית”
- Hindi: “इक्वेटोरियल गिनी”
- Hindi: “ईक्वीटोरियल गिनी”
- Hindi: “भूमध्यरेखीय गिनी”
- Hungarian: “Egyenlítďi Guinea”
- Hungarian: “Egyenlítői-Guinea”
- Icelandic: “Miðbaugs-Gínea”
- Ido: “Equatorala Guinea”
- Igbo: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Iloko: “Guinea Ekuatorial”
- Inari Sami: “Peeivitäsideijee Guinea”
- Indonesian: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Indonesian: “Guinea Khatulistiwa”
- Interlingua: “Guinea equatorial”
- Interlingua: “Guinea Equatorial”
- Interlingue: “Equatorial Guinéa”
- Inupiaq: “Nunaqpaum Qitiŋam Kinaa”
- Irish: “an Ghuine Mheánchiorclach”
- Irish: “an Ghuine Mheánchriosach”
- Irish: “An Ghuine Mheánchriosach”
- Italian: “Guinea Equatoriale”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Ekuatuorial Gini”
- Japanese: “赤道ギニア”
- Japanese: “赤道ギニア共和国”
- Javanese: “Guinéa Katulistiwa”
- Javanese: “Guinea Khatulistiwa”
- Kabiyè: “Kinee-Ekwatoriyaaalɩ”
- Kabyle: “Ginya Tasebgast”
- Kalmyk: “Экватор Гвинемудин Орн”
- Kannada: “ಈಕ್ವೆಟೋರಿಯಲ್ ಗಿನಿ”
- Kannada: “ವಿಷುವದ್ರೇಖೆಯ ಗಿನಿ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ekvatorial Gvineya”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ekvatorlıq Gvineya”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Экваториал Гвинея”
- Kashmiri: “اِکوِٹورِیَل گِنی”
- Kashmiri: “مَنٛز بُترٲتؠ رِکھ گِنی”
- Kazakh: “Экваторлық Гвинея”
- Khmer: “ហ្គីណេអេក្វាទ័រ”
- Kikuyu: “Ginekweta”
- Kikuyu: “Gini ya baruaburika”
- Kinyarwanda: “Gineya Ekwatoriyale”
- Kirghiz: “Экватордук Гвинея”
- Kirghiz: “Экваториалдык Гвинея”
- Kongo: “Ginea ya Ekwatelo”
- Korean: “적도 기니”
- Korean: “적도기네”
- Kotava: “Witaluguinea”
- Kurdish: “Gîneya Rojbendî”
- Kurdish: “Gînêya Rojbendî”
- Ladin: “Guinea Ecuatoriela”
- Ladino: “Ginea Ekvatoriala”
- Lao: “ປະເທດກິເນ ເອກວາຕໍຣິອານ”
- Lao: “ເອຄົວໂທຣຽວ ກີນີ”
- Latin: “Guinea Aequinoctialis”
- Latvian: “Ekvatoriālā Gvineja”
- Lezghian: “Экваториал Гвинея”
- Ligurian: “Guinea Equatoriâ”
- Limburgan: “Equatoriaal Guinee”
- Lingala: “Gine-Ekwatorial”
- Lingala: “Ginɛ-Ekwatorial”
- Lingala: “Ginɛ́kwatɛ́lɛ”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Gine Ecuatoral”
- Literary Chinese: “赤道幾內亞”
- Lithuanian: “Pusiaujo Gvinėja”
- Livvi: “Ekvuatourielline Gvinei”
- Lombard: “Guinea Equaturiala”
- Low German: “Äquatoriaal-Guinea”
- Low German: “Ekwatoriaal Guinea”
- Lower Sorbian: “Ekwatorialna Guineja”
- Luba-Katanga: “Gine Ekwatele”
- Lule Sami: “Ekvatåvråk Guinedja”
- Luxembourgish: “Equatorialguinea”
- Macedonian: “Екваторска Гвинеја”
- Malagasy: “Ginea Ekoatorialy”
- Malagasy: “Ginea Ekoatôrialy”
- Malagasy: “Guinea Ekoatera”
- Malay: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Malay: “Guinea Khatulistiwa”
- Malayalam: “ഇക്വറ്റോറിയൽ ഗിനി”
- Malayalam: “ഇക്വറ്റോറിയൽ ഗിനിയ”
- Maltese: “Ginea Ekwatorjali”
- Maltese: “Guinea Ekwatorjali”
- Maltese: “il-Guinea Ekwatorjali”
- Manipuri: “ꯃꯌꯥꯢꯊꯪꯕ ꯒꯤꯅꯤ”
- Manx: “Guinea Chryss ny Cruinney”
- Maori: “Kini Ekuatoria”
- Marathi: “इक्वेटोरियल गिनी”
- Marathi: “इक्वेटोरीयल गिनी”
- Mazanderani: “اوستوایی گینه”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chiáh-dô̤ Guinea”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiah-tō Guinea”
- Minangkabau: “Guinea Khatulistiwa”
- Mingrelian: “ეკვატორული გვინეა”
- Mirandese: “Guiné Eiquatorial”
- Moksha: “Экваториянь Гвинэя”
- Mon: “ဂျဳနဳ အဳကွေတာ”
- Mongolian: “Экваторын Гвиней”
- Moroccan Arabic: “غينيا ستيوائية”
- Moroccan Arabic: “غينيا لستيوائية”
- Mossi: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Nauru: “Gini t Ekwador”
- Navajo: “Ndikʼąʼtsinyaa Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah”
- Nepali: “इक्वेटोरियल गिनी”
- Nepali: “भू-मध्यीय गिनी”
- Nepali: “भूमध्यरेखीय गिनी”
- Newari: “इक्वेटोरियल गिनी”
- North Ndebele: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Northern Frisian: “Ekwatoriaal-Guinea”
- Northern Luri: “گینە ئوستوڤایی”
- Northern Sami: “Ekváhtor-Guinea”
- Northern Sami: “Ekvatoriála Guinea”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ekvatorial-Guinea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ekvatorial-Guinea”
- Norwegian: “Ekvatorial-Guinea”
- Novial: “Equatoral Gini”
- Obolo: “Gini Ikwetọ”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Guinèa Eqüatoriala”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guinea ðæs Emnihtes Circules”
- Oriya: “ଇକ୍ବାଟେରିଆଲ୍ ଗୁଇନିଆ”
- Oriya: “ବିଷୁବରେଖୀୟ ଗିନି”
- Oromo: “Iqu’aatoriyaal Giinii”
- Ossetian: “Экваториалон Гвиней”
- Pampanga: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Pampanga: “Gineang Ekuatorial”
- Panjabi: “ਭੂ-ਖੰਡੀ ਗਿਨੀ”
- Panjabi: “ਭੂ-ਮੱਧ ਰੇਖਾਈ ਗਿਨੀ”
- Papiamento: “Guinea Ekuatorial”
- Pedi: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Persian: “ایکواتریال گوینیا”
- Persian: “گینه استوایی”
- Persian: “گینهٔ استوایی”
- Piemontese: “Guinea Equatorial”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ekwatoryal Gini”
- Polish: “Gwinea Równikowa”
- Portuguese: “Guiné Equatorial”
- Pushto: “استوايي ګينه”
- Pushto: “استوایی ګیني”
- Pushto: “اېکواټوريال ګوينا”
- Quechua: “Chawpipacha Khiniya”
- Quechua: “Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Romanian: “Guineea Ecuatorială”
- Romansh: “Guinea Equatoriala”
- Rundi: “Gineya Ekwatoriyali”
- Russia Buriat: “Экваторын Гвиней”
- Russian: “Экваториальная Гвинея”
- Sakizaya: “Equatorial guinea”
- Sakizaya: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Samoan: “Kini Ekuatoria”
- Samogitian: “Ekvatuorė Gvėniejė”
- Samogitian: “Ekvatuorė Gvinėjė”
- Sango: “Ginëe tî Ekuatëre”
- Santali: “ᱤᱠᱩᱭᱮᱴᱚᱨᱤᱭᱟᱞ ᱜᱤᱱᱤ”
- Sardinian: “Guinea Ecuadoriale”
- Saterfriesisch: “Äquatorioal Guinea”
- Scots: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gini Mheadhan-Chriosach”
- Serbian: “Ekvatorijalna Gvineja”
- Serbian: “Екваторијална Гвинеја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ekvatorijalna Gvineja”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ekvatorska Gvineja”
- Shan: “မိူင်းဢီႇၵူၺ်ႇတေႃႇရီႇယႃႇ ၵီးၼီး”
- Shona: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Shona: “Ghini Yomutsazanisi”
- Sicilian: “Guinia Ecuaturiali”
- Silesian: “Růwńikowo Gwinyjo”
- Sindhi: “استوائي جيني”
- Sindhi: “ايڪوئٽوريل گني”
- Sindhi: “ايڪوٽوريل گائينا”
- Sinhala: “සමක ගිනියාව”
- Skolt Sami: “Peiʹvvtaʹssjeei Guinea”
- Slovak: “Rovníková Guinea”
- Slovenian: “Ekvatorialna Gvineja”
- Somali: “Ekuwatooriyal Gini”
- Somali: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Somali: “Giinyada Dhulbareed”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوستوایی قینه”
- Southern Sotho: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Spanish: “Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Spanish: “Guinea Española”
- Spanish: “Posesiones Españolas del Golfo de Guinea”
- Spanish: “Provincia de la Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Spanish: “República de Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Spanish: “Territorios Españoles del Golfo de Guinea”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴳⵉⵏⵢⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⵙⵙⴳⴷⵓⵜ”
- Sundanese: “Guinéa Khatulistiwa”
- Swahili: “Gine ya Ikweta”
- Swahili: “Guinea ya Ikweta”
- Swedish: “Ekvatorialguinea”
- Swiss German: “Äquatorialguinea”
- Tachelhit: “Ginya Tamnanaḍt”
- Tagalog: “Gineang Ekwatoriyal”
- Tajik: “Гвинеяи Истивоӣ”
- Tajik: “Гвинеяи Экваторӣ”
- Talysh: “Ekvatori Gvinejə”
- Tamil: “ஈக்வடோரியல் கினியா”
- Tamil: “எக்குவடோரியல் கினி”
- Tamil: “எக்குவட்டோரியல் கினி”
- Taroko: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Tatar: “Экваториаль Гвинея”
- Telugu: “ఈక్వటోరియల్ గినియా”
- Telugu: “ఈక్వటోరియల్ గినీ”
- Telugu: “ఈక్వెటోరియల్ గినీ”
- Thai: “ประเทศอิเควทอเรียลกินี”
- Thai: “อิเควทอเรียลกินี”
- Tibetan: “ཨི་ཁུའ་ཊོ་རལ་གི་ནེ།”
- Tigrinya: “ኢኳቶሪያል ጊኒ”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻEkueta Kini”
- Tsonga: “Gineya ya le Nkaveni”
- Tswana: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Tumbuka: “Equatorial Guinea”
- Tunisian Arabic: “غينيا الاستوائية”
- Turkish: “Ekvator Ginesi”
- Turkmen: “Ekwatorial Gwineýa”
- Tyap: “Gini A̱kwa̱toriya”
- Udmurt: “Экваториальной Гвинея”
- Uighur: “ئېكۋاتور گۋىنېيىسى”
- Uighur: “ئېكۋاتور گىۋىنىيەسى”
- Ukrainian: “Екваторіальна Гвінея”
- Ukrainian: “Екваторіальна Ґвінея”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ekwatorialna Gineja”
- Urdu: “استوائی گنی”
- Urdu: “استوائی گیانا”
- Uzbek: “Ekvatorial Gvineya”
- Uzbek: “Ekvatorli Gvineya”
- Venetian: “Guinea Ecuatoriałe”
- Veps: “Ekvatorialine Gvinei”
- Vietnamese: “Ghi-nê Xích-đạo (Equatorial Guinea)”
- Vietnamese: “Ghi-nê Xích-đạo”
- Vietnamese: “Guinea Xích Đạo”
- Vlax Romani: “Ekuatorialni Guineya”
- Volapük: “Kveatora-Gineyän”
- Võro: “Ekvatoriaal-Ginea”
- Waray (Philippines): “Guinea Ecuatorial”
- Welsh: “Gini Gyhydeddol”
- Welsh: “Guinea Gyhydeddol”
- Western Armenian: “Հասարակածային Կինի”
- Western Balochi: “استوایین گینه”
- Western Frisian: “Ekwatoriaal-Guinee”
- Western Frisian: “Equatoriaal-Guinea”
- Western Mari: “Экваториаль Гвиней”
- Western Panjabi: “استوائی گنی”
- Wolof: “Gine Ekuwatoriyal”
- Wolof: “Gineg yamoo”
- Wu Chinese: “赤道幾內亞”
- Xhosa: “Ekhwithoriyal Gini”
- Yakut: “Экватор Гвинеята”
- Yakut: “Экуатор Гуинеята”
- Yiddish: “עקוואטארישע גינע”
- Yiddish: “עקוואַטארישע גינע”
- Yoruba: “Ekutoria Gini”
- Yoruba: “Guinea Alágedeméjì”
- Yue Chinese: “赤道畿內亞”
- Zeeuws: “Equatoriaol Hunea”
- Zhuang: “Cwdau Guinea”
- Zulu: “i-Equatorial Guinea”
- Zulu: “IGini Enkabazwe”
- Zulu: “INkabazwe Gini”
- “Guinea Tlahcotlalticpac”
- “ma Kinejekatolija”
- “भूमध्यरेखीय गिनी”
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