Equitoral Guinea

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Equitoral Guinea
By Casey Zimmerman and Chelsey Vanderwyk
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L o c a t i o n
Equatorial Guinea is located in Western Africa,
bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon
and Gabon. The continental portion known as Rio
Muni constitutes 92 percent of the landmass,
while 22 percent of the population lives on Bioko
Island. About 25 percent lives in the urban
centers of Malabo (pop. c58,000) and Bata (pop.
c60,000) which together comprise about 40 percent
of Equatorial Guinea's urban population. The
terrain of the country includes coastal plains
rise to interior hills islands are volcanic.
Natural resources oil, petroleum, timber, small
unexploited deposits of gold, manganese, uranium
Climate The climate of the country is
tropical always hot, humid. Geographic
coordinates 2 00 N, 10 00 E
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PLACE! Languages Spanish (official), French
(official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo
Official Name Equatorial Guinea Population
498,144 Size Area total 28,051 sq. km.
slightly smaller than Maryland Ethnic
groups Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos),
Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than
1,000, mostly Spanish Religions nominally
Christian and predominantly Roman Catholic, pagan
practices