Population is about 215,056 people, the 185th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 35,697 of everyone alive.
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São Tomé and Principe
Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe · São Tomé e Príncipe
Africa
· Middle Africa
0Population
964km² of land
$1.94KGDP / person
São ToméCapital
- ISO codes
- ST · STP
- Density
- 223 /km²
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (STN)
- Dial code
- +239
- Internet domain
- .st
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 0.9710° N, 7.0210° E
- Demonym
- Sao Tomean
- UN region
- Middle Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $418M
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How São Tomé and Principe stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
185th
of 242 · 0.00% of world population
Land area
184th
of 242 · 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
188th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
57th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about São Tomé and Principe
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 964 km², making it the 184th largest country here - about 3.1 times the size of Malta.
Population density is about 223 people per km².
The capital is São Tomé, at 0.33° N, 6.73° E, with a metropolitan population of about 88,219.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Sao Tome.
The currency is the São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (STN, symbol Db).
The official language is Portuguese.
Dials on +239 and uses the .st internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Sao Tome
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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★ São Tomé
0.3334° N, 6.7333° E
88.22K