km
Maritime claims:
Exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
Territorial sea:
12 nm
Disputes:
maritime boundary dispute with Gabon because of disputed sovereignty over
islands in Corisco Bay
Climate:
tropical; always hot, humid
Terrain:
coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
Natural resources:
timber, crude oil, small unexploited deposits of gold, manganese, uranium
Land use:
arable land 8%; permanent crops 4%; meadows and pastures 4%; forest and
woodland 51%; other 33%
Environment:
subject to violent windstorms
Note:
insular and continental regions rather widely separated

:Equatorial Guinea People

Population:
388,799 (July 1992), growth rate 2.6% (1992)
Birth rate:
42 births/1,000 population (1992)
Death rate:
15 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
Net migration rate:
0 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
Infant mortality rate:
107 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
Life expectancy at birth:
49 years male, 53 years female (1992)
Total fertility rate:
5.4 children born/woman (1992)
Nationality:
noun - Equatorial Guinean(s) or Equatoguinean(s); adjective - Equatorial
Guinean or Equatoguinean
Ethnic divisions:
indigenous population of Bioko, primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos; Rio Muni,
primarily Fang; less than 1,000 Europeans, mostly Spanish
Religions:
natives all nominally Christian and predominantly Roman Catholic; some pagan
practices retained
Languages:
Spanish (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo
Literacy:
50% (male 64%, female 37%) age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
Labor force:
172,000 (1986 est.); agriculture 66%, services 23%, industry 11% (1980);
labor shortages on plantations; 58% of population of working age (1985)
Organized labor:
no formal trade unions

:Equatorial Guinea Government

Long-form name:
Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Type:
republic in transition to multiparty democracy
Capital:
Malabo
Administrative divisions:
7 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia); Annobon, Bioko Norte, Bioko
Sur, Centro Sur, Kie-Ntem, Litoral, Wele-Nzas
Independence:
12 October 1968 (from Spain; formerly Spanish Guinea)
Constitution:
new constitution 17 November 1991
Legal system:
partly based on Spanish civil law and tribal custom
National holiday:
Independence Day, 12 October (1968)
Executive branch: