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COUNTRY FACTS: CAPE VERDE
Name(official): Republic of Cape Verde
Name(short): Cape Verde
Capital City: Praia
Location: Western Africa
Coordinate: 16 00 N, 24 00 W
Independence: (From Portugal) July 5th; 1975.
President: Pedro Verona PIRES(President)
Jose Maria Periera NEVES(Prime Minister)
Type of Government: Republic
Total Area: 4 033sq.km.
Population: 420 977 (July 2006est.)
People: Creole(Mulatto)71%, Africans28%, Europeans 1%.
Religion: Roman Catholic (infused with indigenous beliefs); Protestant (mostly Church of the Nazarene).
Languages: Portuguese, Crioulo (a blend of Portuguese and West African words).
Literacy: 76.6%total, 85.5%male, 69.2%female (2003 est.)
Currency: Cape Verdean escudo (1CVE =100cetavos)
GDP(per capita): $6 200 (2005 est.)
Arable Land: 11.41% (2005% est.)
Agriculture: bananas, corn, beans, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, coffee, peanuts; fish.
Natural resources: salt, basalt rock, limestone, kaolin, fish, clay, gypsum.
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International Phone Code: +238

ECONOMY: BUSINESS, TRADE AND INVESTMENT

MAJOR CITIES

Praia, Mindelo, Petra Badejo.

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GOVERNMENT: ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

17 municipalities (concelhos, singular - concelho); Boa Vista, Brava, Maio, Mosteiros, Paul, Praia, Porto Novo, Ribeira Grande, Sal, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Sao Domingos, Sao Filipe, Sao Miguel, Sao Nicolau, Sao Vicente, Tarrafal.

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS

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