Map of Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 2.0° N, 10.0° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Cameroon and Gabon — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Equatorial Guinea is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Equatorial Guinea shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Equatorial Guinea covers about 28,051 km² (10,831 sq mi). That makes it the 142nd-largest country in the world by area and the 44th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 10 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,668,768, the 150th-largest in the world and the 47th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Equatorial Guinea has an average population density of about 59 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 47th by population and 44th by area.

The seat of government is Ciudad de la Paz, and the official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr), and the main official languages are French, Portuguese and Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Equatorial Guinea carries the ISO country codes GQ and GNQ, dials on the international calling code +240 and uses the .gq internet domain.

Equatorial Guinea shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Cameroon (capital Yaoundé, about 29,442,327 people) and Gabon (capital Libreville, about 2,469,296 people).

By area, Equatorial Guinea is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 2.0° N, 10.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Equatorial Guinea within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Ciudad de la Paz. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Equatorial Guinea lies about 222 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Equatorial Guinea keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Central African CFA franc (XAF, Fr).

The official languages are French, Portuguese and Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +240 and websites commonly use the .gq internet domain.

In short, Equatorial Guinea is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Ciudad de la Paz. Equatorial Guinea has a population of about 1,668,768 and covers around 28,051 km² (10,831 sq mi), ranking it 150th in the world by population and 142nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Equatorial Guinea.

The flag of Equatorial Guinea is composed of three equal horizontal bands of green, white and red with the national coat of arms centered in the white band and an isosceles triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. The triangle is light blue, has its base on the hoist end and spans about one-fifth the width of the field.

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