Ecuador

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
EC
ISO alpha-3
ECU
ISO numeric
218
FIPS 10-4
EC
GeoNames ID
3658394

Key facts

Capital
Quito
Area
283,560 km²
Population
17,084,357
Currency
Dollar (USD)
Calling code
+593
Top-level domain
.ec
Official languages
es-EC

Continent

Name
South America
Code
SA
In this dataset
14 countries

South America in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
-1.25
Longitude
-78.25
Min latitude
-5.011372578999939
Min longitude
-92.01158606699994
Max latitude
1.6643740910000702
Max longitude
-75.2272639579999

Boundary

Ecuador

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/EC?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 283560,
    "capital": "Quito",
    "continent_code": "SA",
    "currency_code": "USD",
    "iso3_code": "ECU",
    "iso_code": "EC",
    "name": "Ecuador",
    "population": 17084357
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/EC/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=EC
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=EC
  • /v1/timezones?country=EC
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Name in other languages

Arabic
الاكوادور
Chinese
厄瓜多尔
English
Ecuador
French
Équateur
German
Ecuador
Hindi
इक्वाडोर
Italian
Ecuador
Japanese
エクアドル
Korean
에콰도르
Portuguese
Equador
Russian
Эквадор
Spanish
Ecuador
Total language variants
125

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
America/Guayaquil UTC-05:00 UTC-05:00
Pacific/Galapagos UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00

Postal code format

Format
@####@
Pattern
^([a-zA-Z]\d{4}[a-zA-Z])$

First-level administrative regions

  • Provincia del Guayas
  • Provincia de Pichincha
  • Provincia de Manabí
  • Provincia de Los Ríos
  • Provincia del Azuay
  • Provincia de El Oro
  • Tungurahua
  • Provincia de Esmeraldas
  • Chimborazo
  • Provincia de Loja
  • Provincia de Cotopaxi
  • Provincia de Imbabura
  • Provincia de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
  • Provincia de Santa Elena
  • Provincia de Bolívar
  • Provincia de Sucumbíos
  • Provincia del Carchi
  • Morona Santiago
  • Orellana
  • Provincia de Napo
  • Zamora Chinchipe
  • Pastaza
  • Cañar
  • Provincia de Galápagos

24 of 24 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Quito 2,781,641
Guayaquil 2,723,665
Cuenca 636,996
Santo Domingo de los Colorados 458,580
Ambato 387,309
Portoviejo 321,800
Eloy Alfaro 315,724
Machala 289,141
Loja 274,112
Manta 264,281

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
11,458
First-level regions
24
Postal codes
1,225
Name languages
125
Boundary polygon
Yes

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