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Equatorial Guinea

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EQUATORIAL GUINEA

For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here , to postal code pages here and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here .

Table of Contents

Equatorial Guinea - Country information
Equatorial Guinea - Number format
Equatorial Guinea - Date and time formats
Equatorial Guinea - Languages
Equatorial Guinea - Forms of address
Equatorial Guinea - Example address format
Equatorial Guinea - Post office box
Equatorial Guinea - Postal codes
Place names in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea - Administrative districts
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Telephone numbers in Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea - Country information

Equatorial Guinea - Number format

   Note: This section last updated 14th April 2021

In French and Portuguese:

   1 234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and a space the thousands separator)

In Spanish:

   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

Equatorial Guinea - Date and time formats

   Note: This section last updated 14th April 2021

   dd/mm/yyyy

   14:32

Equatorial Guinea - Languages

The national language, Spanish External , is spoken by some 2.3% of the population. Fang (originating in the mainland, Rio Munde) is spoken by 75% of the population. Other languages are Balenque , Benga , Bube (originating on the main island, Bioko), Crioulo , Krio , Ngumba , Ngumbi , Seki and Yasa .

Equatorial Guinea - Forms of address

The abbreviation of Señorita generally used in Equatorial Guinea is Srta.

   Tables of forms of address  can be acquired

Equatorial Guinea - Example address format

   Note: This section last updated 24th May 2023

Any address written in a non-native language will be written in Spanish. Deliveries are made only to post office boxes (Apartado).

Though postal deliveries are only to mailing addresses, street addresses will be found for the use of couriers, visitors etc. As not all streets are named, these may often be descriptive and unstructured. Examples:

Equatorial Guinea’s postal service requests that street addresses include the province, district and municipality names in that order, in this way:

   BIOKO NORTE, MALABO, REBOLA

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired

Equatorial Guinea - Post office box

This is written as Apartado.

Equatorial Guinea - Postal codes

Equatorial Guinea has no postal code system.