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 159,050, 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.
- Type: City with 128,000 residents
- Description: capital of Cape Verde
- Also known as: “Nossa Senhora da Graça”
- Address: Praia, 7600
- Postal code: 7600
Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estádio da Várzea and Museu Etnográfico da Praia.
Estádio da Várzea
Stadium
Photo: Xandu, Public domain.Museu Etnográfico da Praia
Museum
Green Island
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Palmarejo and Achada Santo António.
Palmarejo
Suburb
Photo: Xandu, Public domain.Achada Santo António
Suburb
Ponta de Água
Suburb
Ponta de Água is a subdivision of the city of Praia in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde. Its population was 8,682 at the 2010 census. It is situated 2 km north of the city centre.
Praia
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Praia Municipality, Santiago, Cape Verde, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.9163° or 14° 54′ 59″ north
Longitude
-23.5095° or 23° 30′ 34″ west
Population
128,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
RAI
United Nations Location Code
CV RAI
Open location code
796RWF8R+G5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Praia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Praia, Kaap Verde”
- Albanian: “Praia”
- Amharic: “ፕራያ”
- Arabic: “برايا”
- Aragonese: “Praia”
- Armenian: “Պրայա”
- Arpitan: “Praia”
- Asturian: “Praia”
- Azerbaijani: “Praya”
- Balinese: “Praia”
- Bambara: “Praia”
- Basque: “Praia”
- Belarusian: “Прая”
- Bengali: “প্রাইয়া”
- Bengali: “প্রায়া”
- Bhojpuri: “प्राइया”
- Bosnian: “Praia”
- Breton: “Praia”
- Bulgarian: “Прая”
- Catalan: “Praia”
- Cebuano: “Praia”
- Central Bikol: “Praia”
- Central Kurdish: “پڕایا”
- Chechen: “Прая”
- Chinese: “Praia”
- Chinese: “培亞”
- Chinese: “普拉亚”
- Chinese: “普拉亞”
- Croatian: “Praia”
- Czech: “Praia”
- Danish: “Praia”
- Dutch: “Praia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برايا”
- Esperanto: “Prajo”
- Estonian: “Praia”
- Extremaduran: “Praia”
- Fiji Hindi: “Praia”
- Finnish: “Praia”
- French: “Praia”
- Ga: “Praia”
- Galician: “Praia, Cabo Verde”
- Galician: “Praia”
- Georgian: “პრაია”
- German: “Praia”
- Greek: “Πράγια”
- Greek: “Πράια”
- Guarani: “Praia”
- Gujarati: “પ્રાઇઆ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Praia”
- Hausa: “Praia”
- Hawaiian: “Paia (kapikala)”
- Hebrew: “פראיה”
- Hindi: “प्राये”
- Hungarian: “Praia”
- Icelandic: “Praia”
- Ido: “Praia”
- Inari Sami: “Praia”
- Indonesian: “Praia”
- Interlingua: “Praia”
- Interlingue: “Praia”
- Irish: “Praia”
- Italian: “Praia”
- Japanese: “プライア”
- Kabyle: “Praia”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ರಯ”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Прая”
- Kazakh: “Прая”
- Kirghiz: “Прая”
- Kongo: “Praia”
- Korean: “프라이아”
- Kotava: “Praia”
- 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”
- Maltese: “Praja”
- Maori: “Praia”
- Marathi: “प्राईया”
- Mazanderani: “پرایا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Praia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Praia”
- Minangkabau: “Praia”
- Mingrelian: “პრაია”
- Mirandese: “Praia”
- Moksha: “Прая”
- Moroccan Arabic: “پرايا”
- Nepali: “प्रेय”
- Northern Frisian: “Praia”
- Northern Sami: “Praia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Praia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Praia”
- Norwegian: “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 de Santa Maria”
- Portuguese: “Praia”
- Pushto: “پرایا”
- Romanian: “Praia”
- Russian: “Прайа”
- Russian: “Прая”
- Samogitian: “Prajė”
- Sango: “Praia”
- Sardinian: “Praia”
- Scots: “Praia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Praia”
- Serbian: “Praja”
- Serbian: “Праја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Praia”
- Shona: “Praia”
- Silesian: “Praia”
- Sindhi: “پرايا”
- Sinhala: “ප්රයියා”
- Skolt Sami: “Praia”
- Slovak: “Praia”
- Slovenian: “Praia”
- Somali: “Braia”
- Southern Dagaare: “Praia”
- Spanish: “Praia”
- Swahili: “Praia”
- Swedish: “Praia”
- Tagalog: “Praia”
- Tajik: “Прая”
- Tamil: “பிரையா”
- Telugu: “ప్రయ”
- Tetum: “Praia”
- Thai: “ไปรยา”
- 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”
- Zulu: “i-Praia”
- “Praia”
- “Prajė”
- “प्राइया”
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