Map of Cabo Verde

Cabo Verde is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 16.5° N, 23.0° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Cabo Verde is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Cabo Verde is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Cabo Verde covers about 4,033 km² (1,557 sq mi). That makes it the 168th-largest country in the world by area and the 50th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 4 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 491,233, the 170th-largest in the world and the 52nd-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Cabo Verde has an average population density of about 122 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 52nd by population and 50th by area.

The seat of government is Praia, and the official currency is the Cape Verdean escudo (CVE, Esc), and the main official language is Portuguese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-01:00.

Cabo Verde carries the ISO country codes CV and CPV, dials on the international calling code +238 and uses the .cv internet domain.

Cabo Verde has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 16.5° N, 23.0° W places it about 1,836 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of Africa.

The interactive map above is centred on 16.5° N, 23.0° W and opens at zoom level 8, framing Cabo Verde within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Praia. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Cabo Verde lies about 1,836 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Cabo Verde keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Cape Verdean escudo (CVE, Esc).

The official language is Portuguese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +238 and websites commonly use the .cv internet domain.

In short, Cabo Verde is an island nation in Africa, with no land borders. Its capital is Praia. Cabo Verde has a population of about 491,233 and covers around 4,033 km² (1,557 sq mi), ranking it 170th in the world by population and 168th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Cabo Verde.

The flag of Cape Verde is composed of five horizontal bands of blue, white, red, white and blue in the ratio of 6:1:1:1:3. A ring of ten five-pointed yellow stars is centered at three-eighth of the height from the bottom edge and three-eighth of the width from the hoist end of the field.

The flag of Cabo Verde is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.