Data
- Geographic coordinates
- 16°N 24°W / 16°N 24°W / 16; -24
- Area
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- Total: 4,033 km²
- Land: 4,033 km²
- Water: 0 km²
- Area – comparative
- US: slightly larger than Rhode Island
- Canada: slightly larger than the Queen Charlotte Islands
- UK: slightly larger than Suffolk
- Coastline
- 965 km
- Maritime claims
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- Measured from claimed archipelagic baselines
- Contiguous zone: 24 nmi (44.4 km)
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nmi (370.4 km)
- Territorial sea: 12 nmi (22.2 km)
- Exclusive economic zone
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- EEZ area: 800,561 km²
- Continental shelf: 5,591 km²
- Coral Reefs: 0.09 % of world
- Sea Mounts: 0.04 % of world
- source: Sea Around Us Project's Countries' EEZ
- Terrain
- Steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic.
- Elevation extremes
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- Lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
- Highest point: Mount Fogo 2,829 m (a volcano on Fogo Island)
- Natural resources
- Salt, basalt rock, limestone, kaolin, fish. clay, gypsum
- Land use
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- Arable land: 11.41%
- Permanent crops: 0.74%
- Other: 87.85% (2005)
- Irrigated land
- 30 km² (2003)
- Natural hazards
- Prolonged droughts; harmattan wind produces obscuring dust; volcanically and seismically active.
- Geography - note
- Strategic location 500 km from west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes; important communications station; important sea and air refueling site.
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