Population is about 549,935 people, the 173rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 13,960 of everyone alive.
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Cabo Verde
Republic of Cabo Verde
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
4.03Kkmยฒ of land
$3.6KGDP / person
PraiaCapital
- ISO codes
- CV ยท CPV
- Density
- 136 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Cape Verdean escudo (CVE)
- Dial code
- +238
- Internet domain
- .cv
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 15.0750ยฐ N, 23.6390ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Cape Verdian
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $1.98B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Cabo Verde stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
173rd
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
175th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
163rd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
81st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Cabo Verde
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 4,033 kmยฒ, making it the 175th largest country here.
Population density is about 136 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Praia, at 14.92ยฐ N, 23.52ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 113,364.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Atlantic/Cape Verde.
The currency is the Cape Verdean escudo (CVE, symbol Esc).
The official language is Portuguese.
Dials on +238 and uses the .cv internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Atlantic/Cape Verde
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UTCโ01:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Praia
14.9167ยฐ N, 23.5167ยฐ W
113.36K