Praia
Praia — literally "Beach" in Portuguese — is Cape Verde's capital and busiest city. While it's maybe not comparable to a western metropolis, with a population of only about 130,000, one in four Cape Verdeans call the city home and the city is an important thoroughfare for international visitors to the archipelagic country.
Photo: Davetrainer, Public domain.
Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Estádio da Várzea
Stadium
Estádio da Várzea is a multi-purpose stadium in Praia, Cape Verde just west of the city center's plateau in the subdivision of Várzea and on Avenida Cidade de Lisboa on its east side. Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
Arquivo Histórico Nacional
Museum
The Arquivo Nacional de Cabo Verde is the national archive of Cape Verde. Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
University of Cape Verde
University
The University of Cape Verde is the only public university of Cape Verde. University of Cape Verde is situated 2 km west of Praia.
National Library of Cape Verde
Library
The National Library of Cape Verde is located in Praia, Cape Verde. Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
Localities in the Area
Achadinha
Suburb
Achadinha is a subdivision of the city of Praia in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Calabaceira
Suburb
Calabaceira is a subdivision of the city of Praia in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. Calabaceira is situated 2 km north of Praia.
Achada Grande Tras
Suburb
Achada Grande Tras is a subdivision of the city of Praia in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. Achada Grande Tras is situated 2 km east of Praia. Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
Praia
- Type: City
- Description: capital of Cape Verde
- Categories: capital and big city
- Location: Santiago, Cape Verde, West Africa, Africa
- Population: 128,000
- Postal code: 7600
- IATA airport code: RAI
- United Nations Location Code: CV RAI
- Latitude: 14.916° or 14° 54' 57.7" north
- Longitude: -23.5096° or 23° 30' 34.6" west
- Elevation: 18 metres (59 feet)
- OpenStreetMap ID: node 28095099
- GeoNames ID: 3374333
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Praia, Kaap Verde
- Akan: Praia
- Albanian: Praia
- Amharic: ፕራያ
- Arabic: برايا
- Aragonese: Praia
- Armenian: Պրայա
- Arpitan: Praia
- Asturian: Praia
- Azerbaijani: Praya
- Basque: Praia
- Belarusian: Прая
- Bengali: প্রাইয়া
- Bhojpuri: प्राइया
- Bosnian: Praia
- Breton: Praia
- Bulgarian: Прая
- Catalan: Praia
- Cebuano: Praia
- Central Bikol: Praia
- Central Kurdish: پڕایا
- Chechen: Прая
- Chechen: При
- Chinese: Praia
- Chinese: 培亞
- Chinese: 普拉亚
- Chinese: 普拉亞
- Croatian: Praia
- Czech: Praia
- Danish: Praia
- Dutch: Praia
- Esperanto: Prajo
- Estonian: Praia
- Fiji Hindi: Praia
- Finnish: Praia
- French: Praia
- Galician: Praia, Cabo Verde
- Georgian: პრაია
- German: Praia
- Greek: Πράγια
- Greek: Πράια
- Guarani: Praia
- Gujarati: પ્રાઇઆ
- Hakka Chinese: Praia
- Hausa: Praia
- Hawaiian: Paia (kapikala)
- Hawaiian: Paia
- Hebrew: פראיה
- Hindi: प्राये
- Hungarian: Praia
- Icelandic: Praia
- Ido: Praia
- Indonesian: Praia
- Interlingue: Praia
- Irish: Praia
- Italian: Praia
- Japanese: プライア
- Kabyle: Praia
- Kannada: ಪ್ರಯ
- Kazakh: Прая
- Kirghiz: Прая
- Kongo: Praia
- Korean: 프라이아
- Latin: Praia
- Latvian: Praja
- Ligurian: Praia
- Lingua Franca Nova: Praia
- Lithuanian: Praja
- Livvi: Praja
- Lombard: Praia
- Low German: Praia
- Luxembourgish: Praia
- Macedonian: Праја
- Malagasy: Praia
- Malay: Praia
- Malayalam: പ്രൈയ
- Maori: Praia
- Marathi: प्राईया
- Min Dong Chinese: Praia
- Min Nan Chinese: Praia
- Mingrelian: პრაია
- Mirandese: Praia
- Moroccan Arabic: پرايا
- Nepali: प्रेय
- Norwegian: Praia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Praia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Praia
- Novial: Praya
- Occitan (post 1500): Praia
- Ossetian: Прая
- Panjabi: ਪ੍ਰਾਈਆ
- Papiamento: Praia
- Persian: پرایا
- Piemontese: Praia
- Polish: Praia
- Portuguese: Cidade da Praia
- Portuguese: Município da Praia
- Portuguese: Praia
- Portuguese: Praia de Santa Maria
- Pushto: پرایا
- Romanian: Praia
- Russian: Прайа
- Russian: Прая
- Samogitian: Prajė
- Sango: Praia
- Scots: Praia
- Scottish Gaelic: Praia
- Serbian: Праја
- Serbo-Croatian: Praia
- Shona: Praia
- Silesian: Praia
- Sinhala: ප්රයියා
- Slovak: Praia
- Slovenian: Praia
- Somali: Braia
- Spanish: Praia
- Swahili: Praia
- Swedish: Praia
- Tagalog: Praia
- Tajik: Прая
- Tamil: பிரையா
- Telugu: ప్రయ
- Tetum: Praia
- Thai: ไปรอา
- Tibetan: ཕུ་ར་ཡ།
- Turkish: Praia
- Udmurt: Прая
- Uighur: پرايا
- Ukrainian: Прая
- Upper Sorbian: Praia
- Urdu: پرائیا
- Uzbek: Praya
- Venetian: Praia
- Veps: Prai
- Vietnamese: Praia
- Volapük: Praia
- Waray (Philippines): Praia
- Welsh: Praia
- Western Frisian: Praia
- Western Mari: Прая
- Western Panjabi: پرائا
- Wolof: Praia
- Wu Chinese: 普拉亚
- Yoruba: Praia
- Yue Chinese: 培亞
In the Area
Localities
- Achada Grande Frente
- Lem FerreiraSuburb
- Fazenda
- Achada Santo AntónioSuburb
- Campo Lem Cachorro
- Tira ChapéuSuburb
Landmarks
- Quail IslandIslet
- Nelson Mandela International AirportAerodrome, 4 km northeast
- ITACVehicle inspection, 7 km north
- Vale da CustaResidential area, 9 km northeast
- Pico de AntóniaSummit, 20 km northwest
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