Explanation:

Although the equator stretches 24,901 miles (40,075 kilometers) around the world, it travels through the territory of just 13 countries. And yet the landmasses of two of these countries do not touch the Earth's equator. Located at 0 degrees latitude, the equator splits the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and any location along the imaginary line is equidistant from the North and South Poles.
The countries of Sao Tome and Principe (it is also an island nation), Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil all lie along the equator, but the landmasses of Maldives and Kiribati do not touch the equator itself. Instead, the equator passes through water controlled by these two island countries.
Seven of the countries are in Africa—the most of any continent—while South America is home to three of the nations (Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil) and remaining three (Maldives, Kiribati, and Indonesia) are island nations in the Indian and Pacific oceans.