Cape Verde

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Cape Verde. Cape Verde is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 1 part of it is too small to draw at this scale and is not shown. View spans 25.6°W to 22.4°W and 14.6°N to 17.4°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Cape Verde is filled. No other country reaches this view. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Cape Verde. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

One part of Cape Verde in this source is smaller than a pixel at this scale and is not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and it has not been enlarged to make it visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 16.0°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 25.6°W–22.4°W, 14.6°N–17.4°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Cape Verde. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Cape Verdein Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • Expresso das Ilhas

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.

  3. National legislature

    National Assembly of Cape Verde ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Praia

    30°C / 85°FOvercastwind 22 km/h / 14 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Praia, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:22 AM · sunset 6:31 PM12h 09m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    CPVuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    220 Vcited
    Capital
    Praiauncited
    Official languages
    Cape Verdean Creole, Portugueseuncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    governo.cv ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Cape Verde: the UN's 2025 estimate is 527,326 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 6.7 more a day. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    527,326 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    524,877 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 6.7 more a day (2,451 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    527,3262025
    GDP
    3,056,630,4352025
    GDP per capita
    5,7962025
    Life expectancy at birth
    76.2 years2024
    Exports
    42.0%2025
    Imports
    53.4%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    Paz, Trabalho, Pátria
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    Founded
    1975
    National anthem
    Cântico da Liberdade

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    1 World Heritage Site

    1. Cidade Velha · inscribed 2009

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 130listed as: emergency medical services
    • 131listed as: fire department
    • 132listed as: police

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

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  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    CVE

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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