Equatorial Guinea
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Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa and the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa. It has an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location both near the Equator and in the African region of Guinea. As of 2025, the country has a population of 1,853,559, over 85% of whom are members of the Fang people, the country's dominant ethnic group.
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Key people
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Lamine Yamalb. 2007Spanish association football player (born 2007)Source: Wikidata (citizenship).jpg/330px-2026_Teodoro_Obiang_(cropped).jpg)
Teodoro Obiangb. 1942Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko1924 – 1979Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Everything that happened
- 1942Operation PostmasterBiokoOperation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, during the Second World War. The mission was carried out by the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in January 1942. Their objective was to board the Italian and German ships in the harbour and sail them to Lagos.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)