Location: Central Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, just north of the Equator, west of Gabon
Geographic coordinates:
1 00 N, 7 00 E
Map references:
Africa
Area: Area - comparative: Land boundaries: Coastline: Maritime claims: Climate: Terrain: Elevation extremes: Natural resources: Land use: Irrigated land: Environment - current issues: Environment - international agreements: Geography - note:
total: 964 sq km
[see also: Area - total country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 185
land:
964 sq km
water:
0 sq km
more than five times the size of Washington, DC
0 km
[see also: Land boundaries country ranks ]
209 km
[see also: Coastline country ranks ]
measured from claimed archipelagic baselines
territorial sea:
12 nm
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May)
volcanic, mountainous
lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
[see also: Elevation extremes - lowest point country ranks ]
highest point:
Pico de Sao Tome 2,024 m
fish, hydropower
arable land: 9.06%
[see also: Land use - arable land country ranks ]
permanent crops:
40.62%
other:
50.31% (2011)
97 sq km (2003)
[see also: Irrigated land country ranks ]
deforestation; soil erosion and exhaustion
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified:
none of the selected agreements
the smallest country in Africa; the two main islands form part of a chain of extinct volcanoes and both are mountainous