Geography of Cape Verde - Data

Data

Geographic coordinates

16°N 24°W / 16°N 24°W / 16; -24

Area

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.