Equatorial Guinea
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 5 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Equatorial Guinea is filled. The 4 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Equatorial Guinea. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
One part of Equatorial Guinea in this source is smaller than a pixel at this scale and is not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and it has not been enlarged to make it visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 1.1°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 5.1°E–11.9°E, 1.9°S–4.2°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Equatorial Guinea. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
1 source from Equatorial Guineain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- Ahora EG
sources not yet assessed
Official alerts
no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Ciudad de la Paz
26°C / 79°FRain showerswind 6 km/h / 3 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Ciudad de la Paz, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:06 AM · sunset 6:13 PM12h 07m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- GNQuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 220 Vuncited
- Capital
- Ciudad de la Pazcited
- Official languages
- French, Portuguese, Spanishcited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type Ecited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- We searched and could not establish one either way — which is not the same as there being none. RULED 2026-08-07: the earlier eligibility ruling stands and the later research is overruled. The research proposed guineaecuatorialpress.com as Equatorial Guinea's official page; that same host was already ruled `news` — the state press organ — and two of the architect's own outputs disagreed because the second had no way to know the first existed. The deciding argument is CONSISTENCY WITH ERITREA: ER and GQ are structurally the same case, a government press organ and no general portal, so if GQ's press site were the official website Eritrea's would have to be too, and the Eritrea finding would be reversed as a side effect. The site's own claim does not carry it — a national portal claiming to be a portal is one thing, a press agency claiming to be one is another, and WHAT A SITE DOES OUTRANKS WHAT IT SAYS IT IS. Not `searched-none`, because .gob.gq is live (minexteriores.gob.gq, Foreign Affairs) so a whole-of-government portal may exist and simply was not found — and a single organ's site is not the country's official website. Recorded 2026-08-07.
- State news outlet
- guineaecuatorialpress.com ↗Not a government portal.
Population and economy
Population
Population of Equatorial Guinea: the UN's 2025 estimate is 1,938,431 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 5.2 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 1,938,431 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 1,892,516 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 5.2 more an hour (45,946 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 1,938,4312025
- GDP
- 12,823,210,4262025
- GDP per capita
- 6,6152025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 63.9 years2024
- Exports
- 46.5%2025
- Imports
- 28.4%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
Unidad, Paz, Justicia
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) - Founded
- 1968
- National anthem
- Caminemos pisando las sendas de nuestra inmensa felicidad
Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.
World Heritage Sites
Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.
Emergency numbers
- 112listed as: emergency medical services
- 113listed as: police
- 114listed as: police
- 115listed as: fire department
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
XAF
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.