Água Grande is a district of

São Tomé and Príncipe 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 isla ...

, on

São Tomé Island São Tomé Island, at , is the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe and is home in May 2018 to about 193,380 or 96% of the nation's population. The island is divided into six districts of São Tomé and Príncipe, districts. It is located ...

. Its

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São Tomé São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for " Saint Thomas". Founded in the 15th century, it is one of Africa's oldest colonial cities. History Álv ...

, is also the national capital of the equatorial

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of São Tomé and Príncipe. Covering only , it is the smallest of the nation's seven districts in terms of area, but the largest in

population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...

with 69,454 residents in 2012 rising to an estimated 77,700 in 2018.Projecção a nível distrital 2012 - 2020
Instituto Nacional de Estatística It is divided into the two statistical subdistricts

and Pantufo.

Population

Settlements

The main settlement is the town

. Other settlements are: * Água Porca *

Almeirim Almeirim () is a city and a municipality in Santarém District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 23,376, in an area of 222.12 km2. The city proper had a population of 10,520 in 2001. History There are vestiges of mid-Paleolithic to Mesol ...

* Boa Morte * Chacara * Correia * Madre Deus * Oque del Rei * Pantufo * Ponta Mina * Quinta Santo António * Riboque * São João da Vargem * São Marçal

Politics

Água Grande currently has 13 seats in the

National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...

.Elections in São Tomé and Principe
African Elections Database.

Persons

* Marcos Barbeiro, footballer * Guadalupe de Ceita, medic and a politician * Manuel Pinto da Costa, politician, President of São Tomé and Príncipe from 2011 to 2016 * Adimar Neves, footballer currently living in Europe * Lecabela Quaresma, athlete

International relations

Água Grande District is twinned with: *

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

, Portugal

References

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