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Cape Verde
Cape Verde is a country in Western Africa with its capital in Praia.
- Capital
- Praia
- Region
- Western Africa, Africa
- Population
- 491,233
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Cape Verdean escudo (Esc)
- Area
- 4,033 km²
- Borders
- No land borders
💡 Volcanic Atlantic archipelago; only 1 in 10 Cape Verdeans live in their homeland — the rest abroad.
🧠 Volcanic Atlantic islands; only 1 in 10 Cape Verdeans live in the homeland.
About the flag
The ring of ten yellow stars represents the ten main islands of the archipelago, set on a blue field for the Atlantic Ocean around them.
How to spot it: Blue field with thin white-red-white stripes below the middle and a circle of ten yellow stars toward the hoist.