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.Map | Satellite | Directions |
- Location: Santiago, Cape Verde, West Africa, Africa
- Population: 128,000
- IATA airport code: RAI
- United Nations Location Code: CV RAI
- Latitude: 14.9315° or 14° 55' 53.5" north
- Longitude: -23.5125° or 23° 30' 45.1" west
- Elevation: 18 meters (59 feet)
- GeoNames ID: 3374333
Also Known As
- Amharic: ፕራያ
- Arabic: برايا
- Armenian: Պրայա
- Azerbaijani: Praya
- Belarusian: Прая
- Bulgarian: Прая
- Central Kurdish: پڕایا
- Chechen: Прая
- Chinese: 培亞
- Esperanto: Prajo
- French: Praia
- Georgian: პრაია
- German: Praia
- Greek: Πράγια
- Greek: Πράια
- Hebrew: פראיה
- Italian: Praia
- Japanese: プライア
- Kirghiz: Прая
- Korean: 프라이아
- Latvian: Praja
- Lithuanian: Praja
- Macedonian: Праја
- Marathi: प्राईया
- Novial: Praya
- Ossetian: Прая
- Panjabi: ਪ੍ਰਾਈਆ
- Persian: پرایا
- Portuguese: Cidade da Praia
- Portuguese: Município da Praia
- Portuguese: Praia
- Russian: Прая
- Samogitian: Prajė
- Serbian: Праја
- Somali: Braia
- Spanish: Praia
- Tajik: Прая
- Thai: ไปรอา
- Tibetan: ཕུ་ར་ཡ།
- Udmurt: Прая
- Uighur: پرايا
- Ukrainian: Прая
- Urdu: پرائیا
- Uzbek: Praya
- Western Mari: Прая
- Western Panjabi: پرائا
- Yue Chinese: 培亞
In the Area
Localities
- Vila NovaSuburb
- CalabaceiraSuburb
- Vila NovaSuburb
- Eugenio LimaSuburb
- AchadinhaSuburb
- Ponta d'ÁguaSuburb
Landmarks
- MERCADO DE SUCUPIRATourist attraction
- Embassy of the United States of AmericaEmbassy
- Praça Luis de CamõesPark, 1½ km southeast
- Banco de Cabo VerdeBank, 1½ km south
- KeroBakery, 1½ km south
- Shipping and air travel agencyTravel agency, 1½ km south
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust