São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, about 150 km (93.21 mi) apart and about 250 and 225 km off the northwestern coast of Gabon. With a population of 201,800, São Tomé and Príncipe is the second-smallest and second-least populous African sovereign state after Seychelles.
Dozens of tourists gathered to watch over 400 baby sea turtles being released into the sea at Vila Maria beach on the island of..
The territorial sea of São Tomé and Príncipe is home to five of the seven species of sea turtles in the world.