Young people hang out and play on' Praia Policia Militar' (military police beach). It is called this because the police headquarters were once located beside it. Forte Sao Sebastiao is in the background. Sao Tom? and Princip? is Africa's second smallest country with a population of 193 000. It consists of two mountainous islands in the Gulf of New Guinea, straddling the equator, west of Gabon.