Can you find Cape Verde on a map? What else do you know about this island nation with a population of about 550,000?
Can you find Cape Verde on a map? What else do you know about this island nation with a population of about 550,000?
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How Much Do You Know About Cape Verde?
Compiled byMICHAEL GONCHARandJOHN OTISMARCH 16, 2020
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Culture
Cape Verde is one of the few countries that has.
a national currency pegged to the United States dollar
more citizens living abroad than in Cape Verde itself
more sheep than people
more than 12 official languages
Music
The international starput Cape Verde on the map of the music world with her renditions of mornas, the islands’ ballads of love and longing.
Carmen Miranda
Cesária Évora
Cheikha Rimitti
Édith Piaf
History
Empty of human life before their discovery by theduring the 15th century, the Cape Verdean islands were an early center for the shipment of slaves from the West African coast to the Americas.
British
French
Portuguese
Spanish
Geography
The archipelago is spectacularly scenic because of the islands’origin, and it is swept by the prevailing northeast trade winds, which endow the islands with a pleasantly temperate climate.
coral-reef
fluvial
man-made
volcanic
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