Ecuador

"Ecuador is the place where bananas are grown, and famous for its culture and nature, even football, and since it's trying to take back its lost territory, it is a rival to Peru, and doesn't want to lose power, it couldn't be irrelevant in the books of what we know today. Now it's being under attack as well, and also, I'm getting close to the equator to cross the Southern Hemisphere for the first time."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Crossing the Equator

Ecuador (/ˈɛkwədɔːr/ EK-wə-dor, Spanish: [ekwaˈðor]) (Quechua: Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator;" Quechua: Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) west of the mainland. The capital city is Quito, while the largest city is Guayaquil.