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Travel and Tourism in Equatorial Guinea
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Equatorial Guinea.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
- Time Difference
- UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- 605.7
- Climate
- Tropical; always hot, humid
- Ethnic Groups
- Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 12 October (1968)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 2 00 N, 10 00 E
- Location
- Central Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon
- Airports
- 3
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical facilities are very limited. Pharmacies in Malabo and Bata stock basic medicines including antibiotics, but cannot becounted on to supply advanced medications. Outside of these cities, many medicines are unavailable. You are advised to carry a supply of properly-labeled prescription drugs and other medications that you require for your entire stay; an adequate supply of prescription or over-the-counter drugs in local stores or pharmacies is generally not available.
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