Cape Verde
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| Capital | Praia |
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| Recognised national languages | Cape Verdean Creole |
| Currency | Cape Verdean escudo |
| Points of interest | Pico do Fogo |
| Buracona | |
| Deserto de Viana | |
| Official language | Portuguese |
| Date of Reg. | |
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| ID | 789877 |
About Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Savage Isles.
Boat carrying 280 migrants lands in Canary Islands
... In August, at least 60 people are believed to have that was eventually found off Cape Verde, an African island nation that sits on the migration route to the Canaries...
Cape Verde boat disaster: 'My brother died for a dream we all have'
...By Mayeni JonesBBC West Africa correspondentThe brother of man who died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants was found off Cape Verde has told the BBC they were trying to reach Spain...
More than 60 migrants feared dead at sea off Cape Verde coast
...By Suzanne LeighBBC NewsMore than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa...
TUI: Heatwaves likely to affect where and when we holiday
... It said popular destinations this summer were Turkey, the Caribbean, the Balearics, Greece, the Canaries and Cape Verde...
The Gambian man who took on a tyrant and made history
... He was not an Amílcar Cabral, liberator of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, or a Thomas Sankara, the anti-imperialist revolutionary who led Burkina Faso - two men slain before their life s work was done...
UK's warmest ever Remembrance Sunday recorded
... BBC Weather s Simon King said: " A south-west wind is dragging in air from the Tropics, around the Azores and Cape Verde - where it is still warm at this time of year - and that milder air is spreading north to the UK...
Why is the weather so warm this November?
... " A south-west wind is dragging in air from the Tropics, around the Azores and Cape Verde - where it is still warm at this time of year - and that milder air is spreading north to the UK, " he explains...
'My dad, the claw hair clip inventor'
... My birth mother, Maria, is from Cape Verde off the West African coast...
