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| Acoacán | |
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  Acoacán Location in Equatorial Guinea | |
| Coordinates: 1°37′N11°19′E / 1.617°N 11.317°E Coordinates: 1°37′N11°19′E / 1.617°N 11.317°E | |
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| Province | Wele-Nzas |
Acoacán is a small town in eastern Equatorial Guinea, in the province of Wele-Nzas.
Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country located on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name evokes its location near both the Equator and the Gulf of Guinea. Equatorial Guinea is the only sovereign African state in which Spanish is an official language. As of 2015, the country had an estimated population of 1,222,245.
Wele-Nzas Province is a province in the eastern portion of continental Equatorial Guinea. Its capital is Mongomo. It borders Centro Sur Province to the west, Kié-Ntem Province to the north, and Woleu-Ntem Province of Gabon to the east and south. As of 2015, the population of the province was 191,383.
It is the birthplace of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is an Equatoguinean politician who has been President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979. He ousted his uncle, Francisco Macías Nguema, in an August 1979 military coup and has overseen Equatorial Guinea's emergence as an important oil producer, beginning in the 1990s. Obiang was Chairperson of the African Union from 31 January 2011 to 29 January 2012. He is the second longest-serving non-royal national leader in the world, after Paul Biya of Cameroon.
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