Cape Verde — a small island state in the Atlantic Ocean, geographically belonging to the African region. This is a rather poor country, the development of which is very slow due to a number of factors — there is a lack of minerals, an arid climate, and certain obstacles to the development of the tourism sector.
Interesting facts about Cape Verde
- The state includes eighteen islands, and all they are not at all similar to each other.
- For a long time the name of the country sounded like «Republic of the Cape Verde Islands».
- At any given time, about 10% of those living on the islands people — tourists.
- There is no change of seasons in Cape Verde, and the climate here is quite mild — all year round the temperature is around 25-28 degrees.
- The problem is created by the wind, which for 5-6 months annually (from October-November to April-May) brings clouds of sand raised in the Sahara desert to the islands (interesting facts about the Sahara desert).
- The Internet in Cape Verde is very slow and very expensive, and anywhere. And in many places there is none at all.
- About 10 percent of all land in the country is used for agriculture.
- The army of Cape Verde includes a little more than a thousand people. Policemen — about the same.
- Half of the total working population of the country is employed in agricultural work.
- Despite the island location, fish are mainly caught here not on an industrial scale, but for their own needs, although the prospects fishery development is not bad here.
- About half of all goods exported from this country — shoes of local production.
- Public transport in Cape Verde is poorly developed, there are practically no even regular buses. Instead, minibuses run here.
- There are no railways here.
- The most famous citizen of the country, who is loved by everyone here — the world famous singer Cesaria Evoro, who for several decades paid for the entire educational system of Cape Verde out of her own pocket.
- Despite the former name — Cape Verde Islands — there is little greenery in Cape Verde. Rocky deserts with stunted shrubs predominate here.