São Tomé Island · Sao Tome and Principe
São Tomé population
53,300people · latest figure
São Tomé has a population of 53,300, making it the 1st largest place we list in Sao Tome and Principe. It is in São Tomé Island.
São Tomé holds 21.8% of Sao Tome and Principe's 244,994 people. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 62,174, a fall of 14%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Neves | São Tomé Island | 8,391 |
| Água Izé | São Tomé Island | 7,445 |
| Folha Fede | São Tomé Island | 6,685 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.