Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde (officially Republic of Cabo Verde) is a country in Western Africa, with its capital at Praia, and is home to roughly 524.9K people.
Portuguese is the official language; the currency in circulation is Cape Verdean escudo (Esc); people from here are called Cape Verdian.
- »The islands were uninhabited until Portuguese settlement in the 15th century, then became a hub of the Atlantic slave trade.
Cabo Verde is an archipelago, and that is the whole story of its silhouette: eight landmasses are big enough to see at map scale, the largest holding only 26% of the territory, and 8 separate pieces in all.
Cabo Verde shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Gambia (907 km), Senegal (989 km) and Guinea-Bissau (1,000 km), measured centre to centre.
Praia sits on a plateau above the Atlantic on Santiago island, and became capital in 1770 after the old capital proved too exposed to pirate raids.
3,585 km² (1,384 sq mi), 169th largest of 198 countries and territories on file.
Population 524,877, 171st of 198 on file. That averages 146 per km² (379 per sq mi).
The ten stars are the ten main islands, arranged in a circle. The blue is the Atlantic that surrounds them, the white and red bands the road to nationhood.