My World Factbook
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Geography
Western Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon
1 00 N, 7 00 E
Area: 
total: 964 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
184
land: 964 sq km
water: 0 sq km
more than five times the size of Washington, DC
0 km
209 km
measured from claimed archipelagic baselines
territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Current Weather
tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May)
volcanic, mountainous
lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
highest point: Pico de Sao Tome 2,024 m
fish, hydropower
arable land: 8.33%
permanent crops: 48.96%
other: 42.71% (2005)
100 sq km (2003)
NA
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
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