CBBC Newsround | WORLD | Country profile: Sao Tome and Principe

Updated 23 January 2003, 10.09

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Population: 160,000
Capital city: Sao Tome
Languages spoken: Portuguese
Major religion: Christianity
Fascinating Fact: One of Africa's smallest countries, not many people lived there until the Portuguese arrived in the 15th century and set up plantations producing sugar, then coffee and now cocoa.

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