Where is Cape Verde?
Cape Verde is a country in West Africa.
- Type
- Country
- Continent
- Africa
- Region
- West Africa
- Land borders
- None. It shares no land border with another country.
- Area
- About 2,500 km² on the game’s map
- Hemispheres
- Northern; Western
- Capital city
- 14.92° N, 23.51° W
About Cape Verde
Cape Verde is a ten-island volcanic archipelago in the eastern Atlantic, some 600 to 850 kilometres west of Dakar. Portuguese settlers arrived in 1462 and the islands became a slave-trade hub before independence in 1975. Today it is a stable democracy known for morna music, Cesaria Evora and a knockout-stage World Cup debut in 2026.
Clues from Atlas Daily
Round 4 on 13 October 2026 (#42), hardest clue first:
- The first novel written by a woman from this archipelago was A Louca de Serrano by Dina Salustio.
- Its escudo currency is indexed to the euro under a special European Union partnership.
- Portuguese is official here, yet a creole called Kriolu is nearly everyone's mother tongue.
- Its footballers reached the knockout stage on their very first World Cup appearance in 2026.
Nearby places from past puzzles
- Senegal 650 km away
- Gambia 760 km away
- Mauritania 880 km away
- Guinea-Bissau 920 km away
- Guinea 1,200 km away
- Mali 1,700 km away
- Côte d’Ivoire 2,200 km away
- Timbuktu 2,200 km away
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Sources: Wikipedia: Cape Verde. Borders, area and map from Natural Earth 1:50m outlines, the same ones the game uses.