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COUNTRY FACTS: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Name(official): Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
Name(short): Sao Tome and Principe
Capital City: Sao Tome
Location: Western Africa, Islands in the Gulf of Guinea straddling the Equator, west of Gabon.
Coordinate: 1 00 N, 7 00 E
Independence: (From Portugal) July 12th; 1975.
President: Fradique DE MENEZES (President),
Tome Vera CRUZ (Prime Minister)
Type of Government: Republic
Total Area: 1 001sq.km.
Population: 193 413 (July 2006)
People: mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese).
Religion: Catholic 70.3%, Evangelical 3.4%, New Apostolic 2%, Adventist 1.8%, other 3.1%, none 19.4% (2001 census)
Languages: Portuguese (official)
Literacy: 79.3%total, 85%male, 62%female (1991)
Currency: dobra (STD)
GDP(per capita): $1 200 (2003)
Arable Land: 8.33 (2005)%
Agriculture: cocoa, coconuts, palm kernels, copra, cinnamon, pepper, coffee, bananas, papayas, beans; poultry; fish.
Natural resources: Fish, hydropower
Embassy in Japan:
General Info:
International Phone Code: +239

ECONOMY: BUSINESS, TRADE AND INVESTMENT

MAJOR CITIES

  • Sao Tome (Island)
  • Principe (Island)

NEWS

  • Tela Non Diaro de Sao Tome e Principe
  • Televisao Saotomense (TVS)

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

GOVERNMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

2 provinces: Principe, Sao Tome.
Note: principe has had self government since 29 April, 1995.

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS

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