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Malabo
3.75° N, 8.78° E
- Population
- 155,963
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 2 of 5
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 5 cities of Equatorial Guinea in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Equatorial Guinea, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1827
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 21 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- District of Malabo
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Malabo Löpèlo Mëlaka
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Africa/Malabo
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Practical bearings for Malabo, from the same records as the rest of this page.
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Overview
Name
English settlers named the city Port Clarence in 1827 after the Duke of Clarence. Spain renamed it Santa Isabel in 1843 for Queen Isabella II; it became Malabo in 1973 after King Malabo, last king of the Bubi, a local ethnic group.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person
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