São Tomé & Príncipe
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São Tomé & Príncipe is filled. No other country reaches this view. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps São Tomé & Príncipe. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 0.9°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 6.1°E–7.8°E, 0.1°S–1.9°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps São Tomé & Príncipe. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
1 source from São Tomé & Príncipein Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- Téla Nón
sources not yet assessed
Official alerts
no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.
National legislature
Asamblea Nacional de Santo Tomé y Príncipe ↗
Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in São Tomé
26°C / 78°FRain showerswind 3 km/h / 2 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
São Tomé, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:23 AM · sunset 5:29 PM12h 06m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- STPuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 220 Vcited
- Capital
- São Toméuncited
- Official language
- Portugueseuncited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- saotome.st ↗This link works without encryption only — your connection to it is not private.From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of São Tomé & Príncipe: the UN's 2025 estimate is 240,254 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 13 more a day. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 240,254 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 235,536 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 13 more a day (4,721 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 240,2542025
- GDP
- 981,293,5872025
- GDP per capita
- 4,0842025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 69.9 years2024
- Exports
- 13.3%2025
- Imports
- 33.3%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
Unidade, Disciplina, Trabalho
the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0) Also recorded in Bulgarian, English and Welsh.
- Founded
- 1975
- National anthem
- Independência total
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World Heritage Sites
1 World Heritage Site
- The Roças of Sao Tome and Principe: Colonial Agricultural System and Forced Migration · inscribed 2026
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 112
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
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Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
STN
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.