Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 136 times smaller than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.73% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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