Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Guinea Ecuatorial; French: Guinée équatoriale; Portuguese: Guiné Equatorial), officially be de Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: República de Guinea Ecuatorial, French: République de Guinée équatoriale, Portuguese: República da Guiné Equatorial), be country for de west coast of Central Africa, plus area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). Formerly de colony of Spanish Guinea, ein post-independence name dey refer to ein location near both de Equator den insyd de African region of Guinea. As of 2021, de country get population of 1,468,777,"Equatorial Guinea Population". Archived from the original on 17 September 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2021. ova 85% wey be members of de Fang people, de country ein dominant ethnic group. De Bubi people, indigenous to Bioko, be de second largest group at approximately 6.5% of de population.

Equatorial Guinea dey consist of two parts, insular den mainland region. De insular region dey consist of de islands of Bioko (formerly Fernando Pó) insyd de Gulf of Guinea den Annobón, small volcanic island wey be de only part of de country south of de equator. Bioko Island be de northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea wey ebe de site of de country ein capital, Malabo. De Portuguese-speaking island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe dey locate between Bioko den Annobón.

De mainland region, Río Muni, Cameroon dey border am for de north den Gabon for de south den east. Ebe de location of Bata, Equatorial Guinea ein largest city, den Ciudad de la Paz, de country ein planned future capital. Rio Muni sanso dey include several small offshore islands, such as Corisco, Elobey Grande, den Elobey Chico. De country be member of de African Union, Francophonie, OPEC den de CPLP.

 Geography 
 Ecology 

De country get 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 7.99/10, wey dey rank am 30th globally out of 172 countries.Grantham, H. S.; Duncan, A.; Evans, T. D.; Jones, K. R.; Beyer, H. L.; Schuster, R.; Walston, J.; Ray, J. C.; Robinson, J. G.; Callow, M.; Clements, T.; Costa, H. M.; DeGemmis, A.; Elsen, P. R.; Ervin, J.; Franco, P.; Goldman, E.; Goetz, S.; Hansen, A.; Hofsvang, E.; Jantz, P.; Jupiter, S.; Kang, A.; Langhammer, P.; Laurance, W. F.; Lieberman, S.; Linkie, M.; Malhi, Y.; Maxwell, S.; Mendez, M.; Mittermeier, R.; Murray, N. J.; Possingham, H.; Radachowsky, J.; Saatchi, S.; Samper, C.; Silverman, J.; Shapiro, A.; Strassburg, B.; Stevens, T.; Stokes, E.; Taylor, R.; Tear, T.; Tizard, R.; Venter, O.; Visconti, P.; Wang, S.; Watson, J. E. M. (2020). "Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity – Supplementary Material". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 5978. Bibcode:2020NatCo..11.5978G. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19493-3. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 7723057. PMID 33293507.

 Wildlife 
Equatorial Guinea be home to gorillas, chimpanzees, various monkeys, leopards, African Buffalo, antelope, elephants, hippopotamuses, crocodiles, den various snakes, wey dey include pythons."Equatorial Guinea – Plant and animal life". Encyclopedia Britannica. 29 November 2023. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2020.

 Administrative divisions 
Dem divide Equatorial Guinea into eight provinces.Law, Gwillim (22 March 2016). "Provinces of Equatorial Guinea". Statoids. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017."El Gobierno inicia sus actividades en Djibloho" (in Spanish). PDGE. 7 February 2017. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017. De freshest province be Djibloho, dem create am insyd 2017 wey ein headquarters dey Ciudad de la Paz, de country ein future capital."La Presidencia de la República sanciona dos nuevas leyes" (in Spanish). Equatorial Guinea Press and Information Office. 23 June 2017. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017."Equatorial Guinea government moves to new city in rainforest". BBC News. 8 February 2017. Archived from the original on 28 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017. De eight provinces be as follows (numbers dey correspond to dose for de map top; provincial capitals appear insyd parentheses):

 Annobón (San Antonio de Palé)
 Bioko Norte (Malabo)
 Bioko Sur (Luba)
 Centro Sur (Evinayong)
 Djibloho (Ciudad de la Paz)
 Kié-Ntem (Ebebiyín)
 Litoral (Bata)
 Wele-Nzas (Mongomo)

Dem further divide de provinces into 19 districts den 37 municipalities.Law, Gwillim (22 April 2016). "Districts of Equatorial Guinea". Statoids. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.

 References 

 Sources 

 D. L. Claret. Cien años de evangelización en Guinea Ecuatorial (1883–1983) / One Hundred Years of Evangelism in Equatorial Guinea (1983, Barcelona: Claretian Missionaries).
 Robert Klitgaard. 1990. Tropical Gangsters. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-08760-4. A World Bank economist tries to assist pre-oil Equatorial Guinea.
 Max Liniger-Goumaz, Small Is Not Always Beautiful: The Story of Equatorial Guinea (French 1986, translated 1989) ISBN 0-389-20861-2.
 Adam Roberts, The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa (2006, PublicAffairs) ISBN 1-58648-371-4.

 Read further 

 Aixelà-Cabré, Yolanda. Spain's African Colonial Legacies: Morocco and Equatorial Guinea Compared (Brill, 2022) online review Archived 11 June 2023 at the Wayback Machine
 Lewis, Marvin. An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea: Between Colonialism and Dictatorship. (2007). online Archived 13 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine
 McSherry, Brendan. "The Political Economy of Oil in Equatorial Guinea." African Studies Quarterly 8.3 (2006).
 Sundiata, Ibrahim K. Equatorial Guinea: colonialism, state terror, and the search for stability (Routledge, 2019). online Archived 13 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine
 Ugarte, Michael. Africans in Europe: The culture of exile and emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain (University of Illinois Press, 2010) online Archived 13 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine.

 External links 
Equatorial Guinea at Wikipedia ein sisto projects

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 Travel information from Wikivoyage
 Data from Wikidata

 Equatorial Guinea at Curlie
 Wikimedia Atlas of Equatorial Guinea
 Official Government of Equatorial Guinea website
 Guinea in Figures – Official Web Page of the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. Archived 3 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine.
 Country Profile from BBC News.
 Equatorial Guinea. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.
 Equatorial Guinea from UCB Libraries GovPubs (archived 7 June 2008)
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