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São Tomé (island) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 00 15 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 0.2500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 006 36 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 6.6000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Most likely unpopulated when first visited by European sailors in the 1470s; Portuguese then started to settle convicts & Jewish exiles on the island & developed sugar plantations with slave labor from the African mainland; exports coffee, cacao & copra. |
Names: |
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| São Tomé (preferred,C,V,O)
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| São Tomé, Ilha de (C,V)
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| Ilha de São Tomé (C,V,Portuguese)
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| São Thomé (C,V)
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| Saint Thomas (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| São Tomé island (C,O)
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| TP (C,U,FIPS)
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| São Tomé Island (C,U,English)
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| São Tomé Island (Swedish)
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| Illa de San Tomé (C,U,Galician)
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| Illa de São Tomé (C,U,Catalan)
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| Isla de Santo Tomé (C,U,Spanish)
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| Provincia São Tomé (C,U,Romanian)
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| Pulau São Tomé (C,U,Indonesian)
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| San Tomė (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Sao Tomé (C,U,Dutch)
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| Sao Tome (C,U,Wolof)
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| São Tomé saar (C,U,Estonian)
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| Svätý Tomáš (C,U,Slovak)
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| Wyspa Świętego Tomasza (C,U,Polish)
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| Сан-Томе (C,U,Russian)
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| Сан-Томе (Ukrainian)
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| Σάο Τομέ (C,U,Greek)
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| Сао Томе (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| 상투메 섬 (C,U,Korean)
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| เกาะเซาตูเม (C,U,Thai)
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| 圣多美岛 (C,U,Chinese)
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| サントメ島 (C,U,Japanese)
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