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Cape Verde
Capital: Praia
- Cape Verde has 10 volcanic islands, nine of them inhabited, plus eight small islets, covering about 4,033 square kilometres.
- The diaspora is much larger than the population at home. The 2021 census counted about 491,233 residents, with many family members living in the US and Portugal.
- Sal gets only about 145 mm of rain a year, which is below the 250 mm level usually used to define a desert.