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In December 2008, Equatorial Guinea security forces killed a Cameroonian fisherman and abducted two immigrants, Cameroon closed its border in response. [110] Cameroon has an embassy in Malabo and a consulate in Bata. Equatorial Guinea has an embassy in Yaoundé and a consulates-general in Ebolowa and Douala. Chad: Chad has an embassy in Malabo.
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 .
Between 1778 and 1810, the territory of Equatorial Guinea was administered by the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, based in Buenos Aires. [1] From 1827 to 1843, the United Kingdom had a base on Bioko to suppress the transatlantic slave trade, [3] which was then moved to Sierra Leone upon agreement with Spain in 1843.
Total: 28,051 km². country rank in the world: 141st. Land: 28,051 km². Water: negligible km². Equatorial Guinea's land boundaries total 539 km. It borders Cameroon (189 km) in the north and Gabon (350 km) in the east and south. Area comparative. Australia comparative: approximately 3 / 7 the size of Tasmania.
The economy of Equatorial Guinea has traditionally been dependent on commodities such as cocoa and coffee, but is now heavily dependent on petroleum due to the discovery and exploitation of significant oil reserves in the 1980s. [11] In 2017, it graduated from "Least Developed Country" status, one of six Sub-Saharan African nations that managed ...
The September 5, 2021 coup d'etat brought swift condemnation and threats of sanctions from the United Nations, the African Union, the West African regional bloc ECOWAS (which suspended Guinea), and close allies of Guinea—as well as the United States—among others. [10] [11] [12] China, uncharacteristically, also openly opposed the coup. [13
v. t. e. The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. [1] Null Island, defined as the intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude), is in the gulf.
The United States established diplomatic relations with Equatorial Guinea following the country's independence from Spain on October 12, 1968. [1] Lyndon B. Johnson, appointed Albert W. Sherer, then Ambassador to Togo, as the first Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea on October 28, 1968. [2] Diplomatic relations were formally initiated on November ...