Malabo
Malabo is the second-largest city in, and the former capital of, Equatorial Guinea and is located on the island of Bioko. Notable buildings in Malabo include Malabo Cathedral, Malabo Government Building and the Malabo Court Building. Ciudad de la Paz became the new capital on 2 January 2026.
- Type: City with 297,000 residents
- Description: city and former capital of Equatorial Guinea
- Also known as: “Malaba”, “Port Clarence”, and “Rev Malebo”
- Historically known as: “Santa Isabel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Malabo Stadium and Spanish Cultural Centre in Malabo.
Malabo Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Tadpolefarmer, Public domain.Spanish Cultural Centre in Malabo
Government office
St. Elizabeth’s Cathedral, Malabo
Church
Malabo
- Categories: port city, big city, former national capital, capital city, and locality
- Location: Bioko Norte Province, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
3.7419° or 3° 44′ 31″ north
Longitude
8.7741° or 8° 46′ 27″ east
Population
297,000
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
Open location code
6FMCPQRF+QJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Malabo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Malabo”
- Albanian: “Malabo”
- Amharic: “ማላቦ”
- Arabic: “عاصمة غينيا الاستوائية”
- Arabic: “مالابو”
- Aragonese: “Malabo”
- Armenian: “Մալաբո”
- Asturian: “Malabo”
- Asturian: “Malabu”
- Azerbaijani: “Malabo”
- Balinese: “Malabo”
- Basque: “Malabo”
- Belarusian: “Малаба”
- Belarusian: “Маляба”
- Bengali: “মালাবো”
- Bosnian: “Malabo”
- Breton: “Malabo”
- Bulgarian: “Малабо”
- Burmese: “မာလာဘိုမြို့”
- Catalan: “Malabo”
- Catalan: “Port Clarence”
- Catalan: “Santa Isabel”
- Cebuano: “Malabo (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Malabo”
- Central Bikol: “Malabo”
- Central Kurdish: “مالابۆ”
- Chechen: “Малабо”
- Chinese: “Malabo”
- Chinese: “馬拉博”
- Chinese: “马拉博”
- Cornish: “Malabo”
- Croatian: “Malabo”
- Czech: “Malabo”
- Danish: “Malabo”
- Dutch: “Malabo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مالابو”
- Esperanto: “Malabo”
- Estonian: “Malabo”
- Extremaduran: “Malabo”
- Fiji Hindi: “Malabo”
- Finnish: “Malabo”
- French: “Malabo”
- Galician: “Malabo”
- Georgian: “მალაბო”
- German: “Malabo”
- German: “Port Clarence”
- German: “Santa Isabel”
- Greek: “Μαλάμπο”
- Guarani: “Malabo”
- Gujarati: “માલાબો”
- Haitian: “Malabo”
- Hakka Chinese: “Malabo”
- Hausa: “Malabo”
- Hebrew: “מלאבו”
- Hindi: “मलाबो”
- Hindi: “मालाबो”
- Hungarian: “Malabo”
- Icelandic: “Malabó”
- Ido: “Malabo”
- Inari Sami: “Malabo”
- Indonesian: “Malabo”
- Interlingua: “Malabo”
- Interlingue: “Malabo”
- Irish: “Malabo”
- Italian: “Malabo”
- Japanese: “マラボ”
- Javanese: “Malabo”
- Kabiyè: “Malebo”
- Kabyle: “Malabo”
- Kannada: “ಮಲಾಬೋ”
- Kazakh: “Малабо”
- Kazakh: “Санта-Исабель”
- Kinyarwanda: “Malabo”
- Kirghiz: “Малабо”
- Kongo: “Malabo”
- Korean: “말라보”
- Kotava: “Malabo”
- Kurdish: “Malabo”
- Latin: “Malabo”
- Latvian: “Malabo”
- Latvian: “Malabu”
- Ligurian: “Malabo”
- Lingala: “Malabo”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Malabo”
- Literary Chinese: “馬拉博”
- Lithuanian: “Malabas”
- Livvi: “Malabo”
- Lombard: “Malabo”
- Luxembourgish: “Malabo”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Malabo”
- Macedonian: “Малабо”
- Malagasy: “Malabo”
- Malay: “Malabo”
- Malayalam: “മലാബോ”
- Maori: “Malabo”
- Maori: “Marapo”
- Marathi: “मलाबो”
- Mazanderani: “مالابو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Malabo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Malabo”
- Minangkabau: “Malabo”
- Mingrelian: “მალაბო”
- Moksha: “Малаба”
- Moksha: “Малабо”
- Mongolian: “Малабо”
- Northern Frisian: “Malabo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malabo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malabo”
- Norwegian: “Malabo”
- Novial: “Malabo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Malabo”
- Ossetian: “Малабо”
- Panjabi: “ਮਲਾਬੋ”
- Papiamento: “Malabo”
- Persian: “مالابو”
- Piemontese: “Malabo”
- Polish: “Malabo”
- Portuguese: “Malabo”
- Portuguese: “Port Clarence”
- Portuguese: “Santa Isabel”
- Pushto: “مالابو”
- Quechua: “Malabu”
- Romanian: “Malabo”
- Romansh: “Malabo”
- Russian: “Малабо”
- Russian: “Санта-Исабель”
- Sardinian: “Malabo”
- Scots: “Malabo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Malabo”
- Serbian: “Малабо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Malabo”
- Shona: “Malabo”
- Silesian: “Malabo”
- Sindhi: “ملابو”
- Sinhala: “මාලබෝ”
- Slovak: “Malabo”
- Slovenian: “Malabo”
- Somali: “Malabo”
- Southern Dagaare: “Malabo”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Malabo”
- Spanish: “Malabo”
- Spanish: “Port Clarence”
- Spanish: “Santa Isabel”
- Swahili: “Malabo”
- Swedish: “Malabo”
- Tagalog: “Malabo”
- Tajik: “Малабо”
- Tamil: “மலாபோ”
- Tatar: “Малабо”
- Telugu: “మలాబో”
- Thai: “มาลาโบ”
- Tibetan: “མ་ལ་བོ།”
- Turkish: “Malabo”
- Turkmen: “Malabo”
- Udmurt: “Малабо”
- Ukrainian: “Малабо”
- Upper Sorbian: “Malabo”
- Upper Sorbian: “Port Clarence”
- Upper Sorbian: “Santa Isabel”
- Urdu: “ملابو”
- Uzbek: “Malabo”
- Venetian: “Malabo”
- Veps: “Malabo”
- Vietnamese: “Malabo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Malabo”
- Welsh: “Malabo”
- Western Frisian: “Malabo”
- Western Mari: “Малабо”
- Western Panjabi: “مالابو”
- Wolof: “Malabo”
- Wu Chinese: “馬拉博”
- Yiddish: “מאלאבא”
- Yoruba: “Malabo”
- Yue Chinese: “馬拉博”
- Zulu: “i-Malabo”
- Zulu: “Malabo”
- “Malabo”
- “Q3818”
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