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Equatorial Guinea, [a] officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, [b] is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with 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 near both the Equator and in the African region of Guinea .
The Equatoguinean Academy of the Spanish Language (Spanish: Academia Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española) is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Equatorial Guinea, a republic in Central Africa in which Spanish is the national official language.
The main influence on the Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea seems to be the varieties spoken by native Spanish colonists. [5] In a different paper, however, Lipski notes that the phonotactics of African languages might have reinforced, in Caribbean Spanish, the consonant reduction that was already taking place in Spanish from Southern Spain. [6]
Equatorial Guinea was the only Spanish colony in Sub-Saharan Africa. During its colonial history between 1778 and 1968, it developed a tradition of literature in Spanish, unique among the countries in Africa, that persists until the present day. The literature of Equatorial Guinea in Spanish is relatively unknown, unlike African literature in ...
In a complaint lodged with Spain's High Court in 2020, the MLGE3R alleged that the four - two of whom were Spanish citizens - were sent to Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony, on a ...
The Spanish colony in the Guinea region was established in 1778, by the Treaty of El Pardo between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire. Between 1778 and 1810, Spain administered the territory of Equatorial Guinea via its colonial Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata , based in Buenos Aires (in present-day Argentina ).
As of 2019, in Spain, there are 13,737 regular immigrants from Equatorial Guinea. The five cities with the most people from Equatorial Guinea are: Benidorm, Marbella, Valencia, Barcelona and Málaga. [3]
Río Muni Coat of arms of the Spanish Río Muni colony. Río Muni (called Mbini in Fang) is the Continental Region (called Región Continental in Spanish) of Equatorial Guinea, and comprises the mainland geographical region, covering 26,017 square kilometres (10,045 sq mi).