Place:Ecuador

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Place Information
Name
Ecuador
Alternate names
Quito     (Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 356)
Republic of Ecuador     (Wikipedia)
República del Ecuador     (Britannica Book of the Year (1991) p 588; Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 599)
Équateur     (UN Terminology Bulletin (1993) p 50)
Type
Country
Coordinates
2°S 77.5°W
Contained Places

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Region
Amazonica
Costa
Insular
Sierra
Unknown
Los Bancos
Mejía
Pedro Moncayo
Pedro Vicente Maldonado
Puerto Quito
Rumiñahui
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Ecuador (Spanish: Ecuador), officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands (Archipiélago de Colón) in the Pacific, about 965 kilometers (600 miles) west of the mainland. Ecuador is the Spanish word for equator. Ecuador straddles the equator and has an area of 256,370 square kilometers (98,985 mi²). Its capital city is Quito, however its largest city is Guayaquil.

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