Map of Sao Tome and Principe

Sao Tome and Principe is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 1.0° N, 7.0° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Sao Tome and Principe is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Sao Tome and Principe is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Sao Tome and Principe covers about 964 km² (372 sq mi). That makes it the 173rd-largest country in the world by area and the 53rd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 1 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 209,607, the 177th-largest in the world and the 53rd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Sao Tome and Principe has an average population density of about 217 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 53rd by population and 53rd by area.

The seat of government is São Tomé, and the official currency is the São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (STN, Db), and the main official language is Portuguese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Sao Tome and Principe carries the ISO country codes ST and STP, dials on the international calling code +239 and uses the .st internet domain.

Sao Tome and Principe has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 1.0° N, 7.0° E places it about 111 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Africa.

The interactive map above is centred on 1.0° N, 7.0° E and opens at zoom level 9, framing Sao Tome and Principe within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of São Tomé. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Sao Tome and Principe lies about 111 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Sao Tome and Principe keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (STN, Db).

The official language is Portuguese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +239 and websites commonly use the .st internet domain.

In short, Sao Tome and Principe is an island nation in Africa, with no land borders. Its capital is São Tomé. Sao Tome and Principe has a population of about 209,607 and covers around 964 km² (372 sq mi), ranking it 177th in the world by population and 173rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Sao Tome and Principe.

The flag of São Tomé and Príncipe has three horizontal bands of green, yellow (double-width), and green, with two black five-pointed stars in the center of the yellow band and a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist side.

The flag of Sao Tome and Principe is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.