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Geography Of Sao Tome and Principe
Sao Tome and Principe Information - Country Guides

Location Western Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon
Geographic coordinates 1 00 N, 7 00 E
Map references africa 
Area total: 1,001 sq km
water: 0 sq km
land: 1,001 sq km
Area comparative more than five times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries 0 km
Coastline 209 km
Maritime claims measured from claimed archipelagic baselines exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May)
Terrain volcanic, mountainous
Elevation extremes lowest point: atlantic ocean 0 m
highest point: pico de sao tome 2,024 m
Natural resources fish, hydropower
Land use arable land: 6.25%
permanent crops: 48.96%
other: 44.79% (2001)
Irrigated land 100 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards NA
Environment - current issues deforestation; soil erosion and exhaustion
Environment - international agreements party to: biodiversity, climate change, desertification, endangered species, environmental modification, law of the sea, ozone layer protection, ship pollution
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography note the smallest country in Africa; the two main islands form part of a chain of extinct volcanoes and both are fairly mountainous
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