São Tomé
São Tomé is the capital city of São Tomé and Príncipe, and the largest city, travel hub and main commercial center in the country. It had a population of almost 72,000 in 2015, or over a third of the total population of the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Chuck Moravec, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 53,300 residents
- Description: capital city of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Also known as: “Salazar” and “Sào Thomé”
- Historically known as: “Saint Anna de Chaves”
São Tomé
- Category: locality
- Location: Agua Grande, São Tomé Island, São Tomé and Príncipe, Africa
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Latitude of center
0.3389° or 0° 20′ 20″ northLongitude of center
6.7313° or 6° 43′ 53″ eastPopulation
53,300Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)IATA airport code
TMSUnited Nations Location Code
ST TMSOpenStreetMap ID
node 295342933OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“São Tomé” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “São Tomé”
- Albanian: “Sao Tome”
- Amharic: “ሳን ቶሜ”
- Arabic: “ساو تومي”
- Aragonese: “Sant Tomé”
- Armenian: “Սան Տոմե”
- Asturian: “Santu Tomé”
- Azerbaijani: “San Tome”
- Azerbaijani: “San-Tome”
- Balinese: “São Tomé”
- Bashkir: “Сан-Томе”
- Basque: “Sao Tome”
- Belarusian: “Сан-Тамэ”
- Bengali: “সাঁউ তুমে”
- Bishnupriya: “সাও টোমে”
- Bosnian: “São Tomé”
- Breton: “São Tomé”
- Bulgarian: “Сао Томе”
- Catalan: “Sant Tomé”
- Catalan: “Sao Tomé”
- Catalan: “São Tomé”
- Cebuano: “São Tomé (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “São Tomé”
- Central Kurdish: “ساو تۆمێ”
- Central Kurdish: “ساوتۆمێ”
- Chechen: “Сан-Томе”
- Chinese: “São Tomé”
- Chinese: “圣多美 / 聖多美”
- Chinese: “圣多美”
- Chinese: “聖多美”
- Croatian: “São Tomé”
- Czech: “São Tomé”
- Danish: “São Tomé”
- Danish: “Söo Tomé”
- Dutch: “Sao Tomé”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساو تومى”
- Esperanto: “Santomeo”
- Esperanto: “Sao-Tomeo”
- Estonian: “São Tomé”
- Fiji Hindi: “São Tomé”
- Finnish: “São Tomé”
- French: “Saint-Thomas”
- French: “Sao Tomé”
- French: “São Tomé”
- Ga: “Saint-Thomas”
- Ga: “Sao Tomé”
- Ga: “São Tomé”
- Galician: “San Tomé, San Tomé e Príncipe”
- Galician: “San Tomé”
- Georgian: “სან-ტომე”
- German: “São Tomé”
- Greek: “Σάο Τομέ”
- Gujarati: “સાઓ ટૉમ”
- Haitian: “Sao Tome”
- Hakka Chinese: “São Tomé”
- Hausa: “Sao Tomé”
- Hausa: “São Tomé”
- Hebrew: “סאו טומה”
- Hindi: “साओ टोमे”
- Hindi: “सो टोमे”
- Hungarian: “Sao Tomé”
- Hungarian: “São Tomé”
- Icelandic: “São Tomé”
- Ido: “San-Tome”
- Ido: “Sao Tome”
- Inari Sami: “São Tomé”
- Indonesian: “São Tomé”
- Interlingua: “São Tomé”
- Irish: “São Tomé”
- Italian: “São Tomé”
- Japanese: “サントメ”
- Kabyle: “São Tomé”
- Kannada: “ಸಾವೊ ಟೋಮೆ”
- Kazakh: “Сан-Томе (қала)”
- Kazakh: “Сан-Томе”
- Kirghiz: “Сан-Томе”
- Kongo: “Sao Tome”
- Korean: “상투메”
- Kotava: “São Tomé (widava)”
- Kotava: “São Tomé”
- Kurdish: “Sao Tome”
- Latin: “Urbs Sancti Thomae”
- Latvian: “Santome”
- Latvian: “Sau Tome”
- Ligurian: “San Tomè”
- Lithuanian: “San Tomė”
- Livvi: “San Tome”
- Lombard: “São Tomé”
- Luxembourgish: “São Tomé”
- Macedonian: “Сао Томе”
- Macedonian: “Саун Томе”
- Malagasy: “São Tomé”
- Malay: “São Tomé”
- Malayalam: “സാവോ ടോം”
- Maori: “São Tomé”
- Marathi: “साओ टोमे”
- Mazanderani: “سائوتومه”
- Min Dong Chinese: “São Tomé”
- Min Nan Chinese: “São Tomé”
- Minangkabau: “São Tomé”
- Mingrelian: “სან-ტომე”
- Moksha: “Сан-Томэ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ساو طومي”
- Northern Frisian: “São Tomé (Stääd)”
- Northern Frisian: “São Tomé”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “São Tomé”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “São Tomé”
- Norwegian: “São Tomé”
- Novial: “Sao Tome”
- Nyanja: “São Tomé”
- Occitan (post 1500): “São Tomé”
- Ossetian: “Сан-Томе”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਓ ਤੋਮੇ”
- Papiamento: “Santo Tomé”
- Persian: “سائوتومه”
- Piemontese: “São Tomé”
- Polish: “São Tomé”
- Portuguese: “São Tomé”
- Pushto: “سایوتومه”
- Romanian: “São Tomé”
- Russian: “Сан-Томе”
- Sardinian: “São Tomé”
- Scots: “São Tomé”
- Scottish Gaelic: “São Tomé”
- Serbian: “Сао Томе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “São Tomé”
- Shona: “São Tomé”
- Sinhala: “සාඕ ටොමේ”
- Slovak: “São Tomé”
- Slovak: “Svätý Tomáš”
- Slovenian: “São Tomé”
- Somali: “Sao Tome”
- Spanish: “Santo Tomé”
- Swahili: “Sao Tome”
- Swedish: “São Tomé”
- Tagalog: “San Tomas”
- Tagalog: “São Tomé”
- Tajik: “Сан-Томе”
- Tamil: “சாவோ தொமே”
- Tatar: “Сан-Томе (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Сан-Томе”
- Telugu: “సావో తోమె”
- Thai: “เซาตูเม”
- Thai: “เซาตูแม”
- Tibetan: “སའོ་ཊོ་མེ།”
- Turkish: “São Tomé”
- Udmurt: “Сан-Томе”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Томе”
- Urdu: “ساؤ ٹومے”
- Uzbek: “San-Tome”
- Venetian: “São Tomé”
- Veps: “San Tome”
- Vietnamese: “São Tomé”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sao Tome”
- Welsh: “São Tomé”
- Western Frisian: “Sao Tomee”
- Western Mari: “Сан-Томе”
- Western Panjabi: “ساو ٹومے”
- Wu Chinese: “圣多美”
- Yoruba: “São Tomé”
- Yue Chinese: “聖多美”
- Zulu: “i-São Tomé”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “São Tomé”. Photo: Chuck Moravec, CC BY 2.0.