Cabo Verde15.07° N, 23.64° W
No land border at all — every neighbor is across water, along 965 km of coast, the 85th longest on Earth.
land borders 0 km · 164th/230 · coastline 965 km · 85th/229
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The name derives from the Cape Verde ("Green Cape") peninsula on the Senegalese coast, the westernmost point of Africa and nearest mainland to the islands.
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A temperate climate brings warm, dry summers, with precipitation that is meager and erratic. Prolonged droughts occur, while seasonal harmattan winds produce obscuring dust.
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Five unequal horizontal bands form the flag: blue at the top, then narrow white, red, and white bands, with blue at the bottom. The top blue band is taller than the three narrow bands, while a circle of ten five-pointed yellow stars sits toward the left side of the red stripe. Blue stands for the sea and sky; white and red symbolize formation through peace and effort, and the stars represent the ten major islands. Ten five-pointed yellow stars are the national symbols.
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