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Ecuador

EC / ECU   -1.0°, -78.0°

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contains the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers west of the mainland. The country's capital is Quito, and the largest city is Guayaquil.

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People are called
Ecuadorian
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+593
Capital
Quito
Population
16,938,986
Area
257,204 km2
Climate
Tropical
Government
Presidential republic
Currency
United States dollar
Languages
Spanish 98.6%, Indigenous 3.9%
Sells
crude petroleum, shellfish, bananas, fish
Sells to
USA 22%, China 21%, Panama 12%
Land borders
2: Colombia, Peru
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+593
Founded
1830
Hemisphere
Southern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Ecuadorian

These are English demonyms for people from Ecuador. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

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Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

Modern attribution disputed

Inca Empire

c. 1438–1533 CE; successor resistance continued to 1572

An Andean empire centered at Cusco, covering portions of these modern countries, not their full territory.

The rainbow flag often labeled an Inca flag is modern. The flag of Cusco does not establish an ancient national-flag design.

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Turning points

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Spanishofficial
98.6%
3.9%

Largest cities

Quito  capital 2,781,641
Guayaquil 2,723,665
Cuenca 636,996
Santo Domingo de los Colorados 458,580
Ambato 387,309

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Form of government

Presidential republic.

Climate and geography

tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands

Climate zone

Highest point

Southern hemisphere.

Land borders (2)

Figures from its history

Eloy Alfaro
Eloy Alfaro Liberal revolutionary president José Eloy Alfaro Delgado often referred to as "The Old Warrior," was an Ecuadorian politician who served as the President of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911.
Rafael Correa President, 2007-2017 Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017.

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: famous, founded.