Cape Verde

Cape Verde or CV, officially Cabo Verde is a country off the coast of . It is in a cluster of , 570 km off the western coast of .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Praia and Fogo.

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— literally "Beach" in Portuguese — is Cape Verde's capital and busiest city.

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is one of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic.

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is one of the Barlavento Islands, the…

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Santiago and Santo Antão.

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is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most…

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is the second biggest of the Cape Verde…

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is an island in Cape Verde.

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or Boavista is the most easterly island…

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is an island in Cape Verde.

Cape Verde

  • Type: Country with 516,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state comprising ten islands off the Western coast of Africa
  • Also known as: “Cabo Verde”, “Cabo Verde Vabariik”, “Cape”, “Chheⁿ-kak”, “Cộng hoà Cabo Verde”, “Cộng hòa Cabo Verde”, “Cộng hòa Cape”, “CPV”, “cv”, “CV”, “Gweriniaeth Cabo Verde”, “Kaap Verdie”, “Kaapverdische eilanden”, “Kaapverdiske Eilanden”, “Kab Verd”, “Kabo-Verda”, “Kaboverdes Republika”, “Kap Verde dásseváldi”, “Kap Verde tääʹssväʹldd”, “Kap Verde täsiväldi”, “Kap Verden”, “Kap Verden tasavalta”, “Kape Verde”, “Kapverdisch”, “Kapverdská republika”, “Kapverdské ostrovy”, “Kauberdi”, “la République du Cap-Vert”, “Ostrovy Zeleného mysu”, “Penrhyn Verde”, “Province of Cape Verde”, “Província de Cabo Verde”, “Repubblika ta’ Cabo Verde”, “Republic of Cabo Verde”, “Republic of Cape Verde”, “Republic of Cape Verde Islands”, “Republica Capului Verde”, “República de Cap Verd”, “Republiek Kaapverdië”, “Republik Cabo Verde”, “Republik Kap Verde”, “Republiken Kap Verde”, “Republikken Kapp Verde”, “République du Cap-Vert”, “Respubliko Kaboverdo”, “Verda Kabo”, “Verdakaba Respubliko”, “vihreä niemi”, “Y Penrhyn Gwyrdd”, “Zaļā raga salas”, “Zaļais Rags”, “Žaliasā Kīšolīs”, “Zelený mys”, “Δημοκρατία του Κάμπο Βέρντε”, “Κάμπο Βέρντε”, “Ареспублика Кабо-Верде”, “Астравы Зялёнага Мысу”, “Зелено’ртска Република”, “Республика Кабо-Верде”, “Республіка Кабо-Верде”, “کابوڤێردی”, “カーボ・ヴェルデ”, “カーボヴェルデ共和国”, “佛得角共和国”, “佛德角”, “夏麦論”, “維德角共和國”, and “開普威得”
  • Language: Portuguese
  • Categories: sovereign state, island country, archipelagic state, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
15.0615° or 15° 3′ 41″ north
Longitude of center
-23.6426° or 23° 38′ 33″ west
Population
516,000
Area
4,033 km² (1,557 miles²)
Capital
Currency
Escudo (CVE)
Phone code
238
Internet domain
.cv
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311151
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3374766
Wiki­data ID
Q1011
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Cape Verde” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaap Verde”
  • Akan: “Kepvɛdfo Islands”
  • Albanian: “Kepi i Gjelbër”
  • Amharic: “ካቦ ቨርዴ”
  • Amharic: “ኬፕ ቨርድ”
  • Amharic: “ኬፕ ቬርዴ”
  • Angika: “केप वर्डे”
  • Arabic: “الرأس الأخضر”
  • Arabic: “الرأس الاخضر”
  • Aragonese: “Cabo Verde”
  • Armenian: “Կաբո Վերդե”
  • Armenian: “Կաբո-Վերդե”
  • Arpitan: “Cap-Vèrd”
  • Arpitan: “Chavon-Vèrd”
  • Assamese: “কেপ ভার্দে”
  • Asturian: “Cabu Verde”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kabo-Verde”
  • Balinese: “Tanjung Gadang”
  • Bambara: “Capivɛrdi”
  • Bambara: “Kap Verdi”
  • Banjar: “Tanjung Verde”
  • Bashkir: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Basque: “Cabo Verde”
  • Bavarian: “Kap Verde”
  • Belarusian: “Каба-Вердэ”
  • Belarusian: “Каба-Вэрдэ”
  • Bengali: “কাবু ভের্দি”
  • Bengali: “কেপ ভার্দে”
  • Bengali: “কেপভার্দে”
  • Betawi: “Tanjung Ijo”
  • Bhojpuri: “केप वर्डे”
  • Bishnupriya: “কেপ ভের্দ”
  • Bislama: “Kep Ved”
  • Bosnian: “Zelenortska Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Kab Glas”
  • Breton: “Kab-Glas”
  • Bulgarian: “Кабо Верде”
  • Burmese: “ကိတ်ဗာဒီ”
  • Burmese: “ကိတ်ဗာဒီနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Cap Verd”
  • Cebuano: “Cabo Verde”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Verde”
  • Central Bikol: “Kabo nin Berde”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەیپڤەرد”
  • Chavacano: “Cabo Verde”
  • Chechen: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᎬᎾᏕᎾ ᎢᏤᏳᏍᏗ”
  • Chinese: “佛得角”
  • Chinese: “維德角”
  • Chuvash: “Кабо Верде”
  • Cornish: “Pennrynn Gwyrdh”
  • Cornish: “Repoblek Cabo Verde”
  • Corsican: “Capu Verde”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kabo Verde”
  • Croatian: “Kabo Verde”
  • Croatian: “Zelenortska Republika”
  • Croatian: “Zelenortski Otoci”
  • Czech: “Kapverdy”
  • Dagbani: “Cabo Verde”
  • Danish: “Kap Verde”
  • Dhivehi: “ކޭޕް ވާޑޭ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kabo Verde”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kap Verde”
  • Dotyali: “केप भर्डे”
  • Dutch: “Kaapverdië”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀེཔ་བཱཌ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كابو فيردا”
  • Esperanto: “Kabo-Verdo”
  • Esperanto: “Kaboverdo”
  • Estonian: “Roheneemesaared”
  • Ewe: “Cape Verde”
  • Ewe: “Kape Verde nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Cabu Verdi”
  • Farefare: “Cape Verde”
  • Faroese: “Grønhøvdaoyggjar”
  • Faroese: “Grønhøvdaoyggjarnar”
  • Faroese: “Kap Verde”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Cape Verde”
  • Finnish: “Kap Verde”
  • Fon: “Cap Vert tò”
  • French: “Cap-Vert”
  • Fulah: “Duuɗe Kap Weer”
  • Fulah: “Kapu Werde”
  • Gagauz: “Kabo Verde”
  • Galician: “Cabo Verde”
  • Ganda: “Bizinga by’e Kepu Veredi”
  • Ganda: “Cape Verde”
  • Georgian: “კაბო-ვერდე”
  • German: “Inseln des Grünen Vorgebirges”
  • German: “Kap Verde”
  • German: “Kapverden”
  • German: “Kapverdische Inseln”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cape Verde”
  • Gilaki: “کیپ ورد”
  • Greek: “Πράσινο Ακρωτήριο”
  • Guarani: “Kávo Véyde”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kap-Vèr”
  • Gujarati: “કૅપ વર્ડે”
  • Gujarati: “કેપ વર્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Kap Vè”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cabo Verde”
  • Hausa: “Cabo Verde”
  • Hausa: “Tsibiran Kap Barde”
  • Hawaiian: “Kapo Weleke”
  • Hebrew: “כף ורדה”
  • Hebrew: “קאפ ורדה”
  • Hindi: “केप वर्दे”
  • Hindi: “कैप वर्डे”
  • Hindi: “कैप वर्त”
  • Hungarian: “Zöld-foki Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Zöld-foki-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Grænhöfðaeyjar”
  • Ido: “Kabo Verda”
  • Igbo: “Cape Verde”
  • Iloko: “Cabo Verde”
  • Inari Sami: “Kap Verde”
  • Indonesian: “Tanjung Hijau”
  • Indonesian: “Tanjung Verde”
  • Interlingua: “Capo Verde”
  • Interlingue: “Cap Verd”
  • Inupiaq: “Suŋaaqtuq Uligaaq”
  • Irish: “Cabo Verde”
  • Irish: “Rinn Verde”
  • Italian: “Capo Verde”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kiep Voerdi”
  • Japanese: “カーボベルデ”
  • Javanese: “Pongol Verdé”
  • Jèrriais: “Vèrt Cap”
  • Kabiyè: “Kapʊvɛɛrɩ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Kabu Verdi”
  • Kabyle: “Iɣef Azegzaw”
  • Kabyle: “Ixef Azegzaw”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cap Verde”
  • Kalmyk: “Ноһаномгудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಪ್ ವರ್ಡೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಪ್ ವೆರ್ದೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Cape Verde”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kabo-Verde”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Kashmiri: “کیپ ؤرڑی”
  • Kashmiri: “کیپ وردے”
  • Kazakh: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Khmer: “កាប់វែរ”
  • Kikuyu: “Cape Verde”
  • Kikuyu: “Kepuvede”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kapu Veri”
  • Kirghiz: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Kongo: “Kap Verde”
  • Korean: “까부 웨르드”
  • Korean: “까뽀베르데”
  • Korean: “카보베르데”
  • Kotava: “Kaboverdea”
  • Kurdish: “Kap Verde”
  • Ladin: “Cap Vërt”
  • Ladino: “Kabo Vedre”
  • Lao: “ເຄບ ເວີດ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດກັບແວກ”
  • Latin: “Res publica Capitis Viridis”
  • Latvian: “Kaboverde”
  • Lezghian: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Ligurian: “Cappo Verde”
  • Ligurian: “Cavo Verde”
  • Limburgan: “Kaapverdië”
  • Lingala: “Bisanga bya Kapevɛrɛ”
  • Lingala: “Cap-Vert”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Capo Verde”
  • Literary Chinese: “維德角”
  • Lithuanian: “Žaliasis Kyšulys”
  • Livvi: “Kabo Verde”
  • Lombard: “Cap Verd”
  • Low German: “Kaapverdie”
  • Low German: “Kap Verde”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kap Verde”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Lutanda lua Kapevele”
  • Lule Sami: “Káhpa Vierdde”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cap Vert”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kap Verde”
  • Macedonian: “Зелен ’Рт”
  • Malagasy: “Cabo Verde”
  • Malagasy: “Kapvera”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Cap-Vert”
  • Malay: “Cape Verde”
  • Malay: “Tanjung Verde”
  • Malayalam: “കേപ്പ് വേർഡ്”
  • Maltese: “Cabo Verde”
  • Maltese: “Cape Verde”
  • Maltese: “Kap Verde”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯕꯣ ꯚꯔꯗꯤ”
  • Manx: “Yn Rheynn Ghlass”
  • Maori: “Kēpa Weriti”
  • Marathi: “केप व्हर्डे”
  • Marathi: “केप व्हर्दे”
  • Mazanderani: “کیپ ورد”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cabo Verde”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cabo Verde”
  • Minangkabau: “Tanjuang Verde”
  • Mingrelian: “კაბო-ვერდე”
  • Mirandese: “Cabo Berde”
  • Moksha: “Кабо-Вердэ”
  • Mongolian: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كابو ڤيردي”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاپ ڤير”
  • Mossi: “Cape Verde”
  • N'Ko: “ߜߙߋߞߎ߲߫ ߝߙߌߛߌ”
  • Nauru: “Keip Berde”
  • Navajo: “Tónteel Bibąąh Dootłʼizhí”
  • Nepali: “केप भर्ड”
  • Nepali: “केप भर्डे”
  • Newari: “केप भर्डे”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Kaep Verde”
  • North Ndebele: “Cape Verde Islands”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kapwerden”
  • Northern Luri: “کئیپ ڤورد”
  • Northern Sami: “Kap Verde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Verde”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Verde”
  • Norwegian: “Kapp Verde”
  • Novial: “Kabe Verdi”
  • Nyanja: “Cape Verde”
  • Obolo: “Kabo Vede”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cap Verd”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grēnenæs Īega”
  • Oriya: “କେପ ଭର୍ଡ”
  • Oriya: “କେପ୍ ଭର୍ଦେ”
  • Oromo: “Keeppi Verdee”
  • Ossetian: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Pali: “केप वर्डी”
  • Pampanga: “Cape Verde”
  • Pampanga: “Kaboberdi”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਪ ਵਰਡੇ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਪ ਵਰਦੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Kabo Verde”
  • Pedi: “Cape Verde”
  • Persian: “کیپ ورد”
  • Persian: “کیپ‌ورد”
  • Piemontese: “Cap Verd”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Cape Verde”
  • Polish: “Republika Zielonego Przylądka”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Zielonego Przylądka”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Verde”
  • Portuguese: “República de Cabo Verde”
  • Pushto: “کيپ ورډ”
  • Pushto: “کیپ ورد”
  • Quechua: “Cabo Verde”
  • Quechua: “Q’umir Kawu”
  • Rakhine: “ကိတ်ဗာဒီ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Rakhine: “ကိပ်ဗားဒ်သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Capul Verde”
  • Romansh: “Cap Verd”
  • Rundi: “Ibirwa bya Kapuveri”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Russian: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Samoan: “Cabo Verde”
  • Samogitian: “Žalėjė Ėškīšolė Respoblėka”
  • Samogitian: “Žaliuojė Ėškīšolė Respoblėka”
  • Sango: “Azûâ tî Kâpo-Vêre”
  • Sanskrit: “केप वर्डी”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱮᱯ ᱵᱷᱟᱨᱰᱮ”
  • Sardinian: “Cabu Birde”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kap Verde”
  • Scots: “Cape Verde”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Ceap Uaine”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cape Verde”
  • Serbian: “Зеленортска Острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zelenortska Ostrva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zelenortska Republika”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၶဵပ်ႉဝႄႇတီႇ”
  • Shona: “Cape Verde”
  • Shona: “Kabho Vherite”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa zveCape Verde”
  • Sicilian: “Capu Virdi”
  • Silesian: “Republika Źelůnygo Przilůndka”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيپ وردي”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيپ ورڊي”
  • Sinhala: “කේප් වර්ඩ්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kap Verde”
  • Slovak: “Kapverdy”
  • Slovenian: “Zelenortski otoki”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradda Kayb Faarde”
  • Somali: “Kab Ferde”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کئیپ ورد”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیپ ورد”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Cape Verde”
  • Southern Sotho: “Cape Verde”
  • Spanish: “Cabo Verde”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵅⴼ ⴰⵣⴳⵣⴰⵡ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵖⴼ ⴰⵣⴳⵣⴰⵡ”
  • Sundanese: “Tanjung Verdé”
  • Swahili: “Cabo Verde”
  • Swahili: “Cape Verde”
  • Swati: “Sihlenge Lesiluhlata”
  • Swedish: “Kap Verde”
  • Swiss German: “Kap Verde”
  • Tachelhit: “Iɣf azgzaw”
  • Tachelhit: “Kap Verde”
  • Tagalog: “Cabo Verde”
  • Tajik: “Димоғаи Сабз”
  • Tajik: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Димоғаи Сабз”
  • Talysh: “Kap Verde”
  • Talysh: “Kapo Verde”
  • Tamil: “காபோ வர்டி”
  • Tamil: “கேப் வெர்டே”
  • Tamil: “கேப் வேர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Telugu: “కేప్ వర్దె”
  • Telugu: “కేప్ వెర్డె”
  • Tetum: “Kabuverde”
  • Thai: “เคปเวิร์ด”
  • Thai: “ประเทศกาบูเวร์ดี”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเคปเวิร์ด”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེབ་ཝར་ཌི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኬፕ ቬርዴ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Muiʻi Vēte”
  • Tsonga: “Cape Verde”
  • Tumbuka: “Cape Verde”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الراس الأخضر”
  • Turkish: “Cabo Verde”
  • Turkish: “Cape Verde”
  • Turkish: “Yeşil Burun Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Yeşilburun”
  • Turkmen: “Kabo-Werde”
  • Tyap: “kep vet”
  • Tyap: “Kep Vet”
  • Udmurt: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Uighur: “يېشىل تۇمشۇق ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “يېشىل تۇمشۇق”
  • Ukrainian: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kap Verde”
  • Urdu: “کابو وردی”
  • Urdu: “کیپ ورڈی”
  • Uzbek: “Kabo Verde”
  • Uzbek: “Kabo-Verde”
  • Venetian: “Cao Verdo”
  • Veps: “Kabo Verde”
  • Vietnamese: “Cabo Verde”
  • Vietnamese: “Cáp Ve”
  • Vietnamese: “Cape Verde”
  • Vlaams: “Koapverdië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Cape Verde”
  • Volapük: “Kabovärduäns”
  • Võro: “Cabo Verde”
  • Võro: “Roheneemesaarõq”
  • Walloon: “Cap-Vert”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cabo Verde”
  • Welsh: “Cabo Verde”
  • Western Armenian: “Քափօ Վերտէ”
  • Western Balochi: “کاپی ویردی”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaapverdië”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaapverdje”
  • Western Mari: “Кабо-Верде”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیپ وردی”
  • Wolof: “Kabo Werde”
  • Wolof: “Kap Weert”
  • Wu Chinese: “佛得角”
  • Yakut: “Кабо Верде”
  • Yiddish: “קאפ ווערד”
  • Yiddish: “קאפווערדישע אינזלען”
  • Yiddish: “קאַפּווערדישע אינזלען”
  • Yoruba: “Etíokun Kápé féndè”
  • Yoruba: “Kepu Ferde”
  • Yue Chinese: “維德角”
  • Zeeuws: “Kaopverdië”
  • Zhuang: “Cabo Verde”
  • Zulu: “i-Cape Verde”
  • Zulu: “IKhepi Vedhi”
  • “Cabo Xoxoctic”
  • “Kapverd”
  • “ma Kapuwesi”
  • “ma Kelaso”
  • “केप वर्डे”

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