Overview

São Tomé and Príncipe covers 1,001 km², with negligible water surface. Its 236,000 people belong to 5 major cultural groups practicing Christianity and other minority faiths, across low-altitude dense equatorial forest, secondary forest, cloud forest, beaches, mangroves, marshland, and rivers, with 1 international airport, 2 ports, no railway, and a satisfactory road network, plus 1 hydroelectric plant. 5 cities range from 21,500 to 82,700 inhabitants.