São Tomé and Príncipe

19 December 2022 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Praia Inhame © flickr.com - Chuck Moravec/cc-by-2.0

Praia Inhame © flickr.com – Chuck Moravec/cc-by-2.0

São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a Portuguese-speaking island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, about 150 km (93.21 mi) apart and about 250 and 225 km (155 and 140 mi) off the north-western coast of Gabon. With a population of 201,800 (2018 official estimate), São Tomé and Príncipe is the second-smallest and second-least populous African sovereign state after Seychelles.   read more…

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