EQUATORIAL GUINEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Equatorial Guinea mean? 

• EQUATORIAL GUINEA (noun)
  The noun EQUATORIAL GUINEA has 1 sense:

1. a country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea); became independent from Spain in 1968

  Familiarity information: EQUATORIAL GUINEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUATORIAL GUINEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea); became independent from Spain in 1968

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Equatorial Guinea; Republic of Equatorial Guinea; Spanish Guinea

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Equatorial Guinea"):

Bioko (an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea)

Holonyms ("Equatorial Guinea" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)