<human>:  Why is the country of ‘So Tomé and Prncipe’ called that?
<bot>: The country was named after the Portuguese explorers who discovered it. The name is a combination of the Portuguese words'sou' meaning 'I am' and 'tomar' meaning 'to take'. The explorers were trying to say that they had taken possession of the land, so they called it'sou tomar prncipes'.