São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe ranks 166th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind French Guiana, Oman, and Bhutan. Memorable people born in present day São Tomé and Príncipe include Manuel Pinto da Costa, Evaristo Carvalho, and Fradique de Menezes. Memorable people who died in São Tomé and Príncipe include . São Tomé and Príncipe has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many .

São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an 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 off the northwestern coast of Gabon. With a population of 201,800, São Tomé and Príncipe is the second-smallest and second-least populous African sovereign state after Seychelles. Read more on Wikipedia