aid: NA

_#_Currency: Italian lira (plural--lire);
1 Italian lira (Lit) = 100 centesimi; also mints its own coins

_#_Exchange rates: Italian lire (Lit) per US$1--1,134.4 (January
1991), 1,198.1 (1990), 1,372.1 (1989), 1,301.6 (1988), 1,296.1 (1987),
1,490.8 (1986), 1,909.4 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 104 km

_#_Telecommunications: automatic telephone system; 11,700 telephones;
stations--no AM, 20 FM, no TV; radio relay and cable links into Italian
networks; no communication satellite facilities

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: public security or police force of less than 50 people

_#_Manpower availability: all fit men ages 16-60 constitute a militia
that can serve as an army

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
_%_
_@_Sao Tome and Principe
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 960 km2; land area: 960 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 5.5 times the size of
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_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

_#_Natural resources: fish

_#_Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops 20%; meadows and
pastures 1%; forest and woodland 75%; other 3%

_#_Environment: deforestation; soil erosion

_#_Note: located south of Nigeria and west of Gabon near the Equator
in the North Atlantic Ocean

_*_People
_#_Population: 128,499 (July 1991), growth rate 3.0% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 38 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 8 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 60 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 64 years male, 68 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 5.3 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Sao Tomean(s); adjective--Sao Tomean

_#_Ethnic divisions: mestico, angolares (descendents of Angolan
slaves), forros (descendents of freed slaves), servicais (contract
laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of
servicais born on the islands), and Europeans (primarily Portuguese)

_#_Religion: Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Seventh-Day
Adventist

_#_Language: Portuguese (official)

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