Praia
Praia — literally "Beach" in Portuguese — is Cape Verde's capital and busiest city. While it's maybe not comparable to a western metropolis, with a population of only about 159,050, one in four Cape Verdeans call the city home and the city is an important thoroughfare for international visitors to the archipelagic country.Photo: Davetrainer, Public domain.
- Type: City with 128,000 residents
- Description: capital of Cape Verde
- Postal code: 7600
Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Estádio da Várzea
Photo: Xandu, Public domain.
Estádio da Várzea is a multi-purpose stadium in Praia, Cape Verde just west of the city center's plateau in the subdivision of Várzea and on Avenida Cidade de Lisboa on its east side.
Museu Etnográfico da Praia
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Museu Etnográfico da Praia is an ethnographic museum in the Cape Verdean capital of Praia on the island of Santiago.
Green Island
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ilhéu de Santa Maria is a small uninhabited islet of the Sotavento archipelago in Cape Verde located off the shore of the island Santiago.
Localities in the Area
Achadinha
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Achadinha is a subdivision of the city of Praia in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.
Achada Santo António
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Achada Santo António is a subdivision of the city of Praia in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde.
Praia
- Categories: capital city, big city and locality
- Location: Praia Municipality, Santiago, Cape Verde, West African Islands, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.9163° or 14° 54' 59" northLongitude
-23.5095° or 23° 30' 34" westPopulation
128,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)IATA airport code
RAIUnited Nations Location Code
CV RAIOpen Location Code
796RWF8R+G5OpenStreetMap ID
node 28095099OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3374333Wikidata ID
Q3751Praia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Praia
- Afrikaans: Praia, Kaap Verde
- Akan: Praia
- Albanian: Praia
- Amharic: ፕራያ
- Arabic: Praia
- Arabic: برايا
- Aragonese: Praia
- Armenian: Պրայա
- Arpitan: Praia
- Asturian: Praia
- Avaric: Praia
- Azerbaijani: Praya
- Balinese: Praia
- Basque: Praia
- Belarusian: Прая
- Bengali: প্রায়া
- Bhojpuri: प्राइया
- Bosnian: Praia
- Breton: Praia
- Bulgarian: Прая
- Catalan: Praia
- Cebuano: Praia
- Central Bikol: Praia
- Central Kurdish: پڕایا
- Chechen: Прая
- Chinese: Praia
- Chinese: 培亞
- Chinese: 普拉亚
- Chinese: 普拉亞
- Croatian: Praia
- Czech: Praia
- Danish: Praia
- Dutch: Praia
- Egyptian Arabic: برايا
- Esperanto: Prajo
- Estonian: Praia
- Fiji Hindi: Praia
- Finnish: Praia
- French: Praia
- Galician: Praia, Cabo Verde
- Galician: Praia
- Georgian: პრაია
- German: Praia
- Greek: Πράγια
- Greek: Πράια
- Guarani: Praia
- Gujarati: પ્રાઇઆ
- Hakka Chinese: Praia
- Hausa: Praia
- Hawaiian: Paia (kapikala)
- Hebrew: פראיה
- Hindi: प्राये
- Hungarian: Praia
- Icelandic: Praia
- Ido: Praia
- Inari Sami: Praia
- Indonesian: Praia
- Interlingua: Praia
- Interlingue: Praia
- Irish: Praia
- Italian: Praia
- Japanese: プライア
- Kabyle: Praia
- Kannada: ಪ್ರಯ
- Kazakh: Прая
- Kirghiz: Прая
- Kongo: Praia
- Korean: 프라이아
- Kotava: Praia
- Latin: Praia
- Latvian: Praja
- Ligurian: Praia
- Lingua Franca Nova: Praia
- Lithuanian: Praja
- Livvi: Praja
- Lombard: Praia
- Low German: Praia
- Luxembourgish: Praia
- Macedonian: Праја
- Malagasy: Praia
- Malay: Praia
- Malayalam: പ്രൈയ
- Maori: Praia
- Marathi: प्राईया
- Mazanderani: پرایا
- Min Dong Chinese: Praia
- Min Nan Chinese: Praia
- Mingrelian: პრაია
- Mirandese: Praia
- Moksha: Прая
- Moroccan Arabic: پرايا
- Nepali: प्रेय
- Northern Frisian: Praia
- Norwegian: Praia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Praia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Praia
- Novial: Praya
- Occitan (post 1500): Praia
- Ossetian: Прая
- Panjabi: ਪ੍ਰਾਈਆ
- Papiamento: Praia
- Persian: پرایا
- Piemontese: Praia
- Polish: Praia
- Portuguese: Cidade da Praia
- Portuguese: Município da Praia
- Portuguese: Praia
- Portuguese: Praia de Santa Maria
- Pushto: پرایا
- Romanian: Praia
- Russian: Прайа
- Russian: Прая
- Samogitian: Prajė
- Sango: Praia
- Sardinian: Praia
- Scots: Praia
- Scottish Gaelic: Praia
- Serbian: Праја
- Serbo-Croatian: Praia
- Shona: Praia
- Silesian: Praia
- Sinhala: ප්රයියා
- Slovak: Praia
- Slovenian: Praia
- Somali: Braia
- Spanish: Praia
- Swahili: Praia
- Swedish: Praia
- Tagalog: Praia
- Tajik: Прая
- Tamil: பிரையா
- Telugu: ప్రయ
- Tetum: Praia
- Thai: ไปรยา
- Thai: ไปรอา
- Tibetan: ཕུ་ར་ཡ།
- Turkish: Praia
- Udmurt: Прая
- Uighur: پرايا
- Ukrainian: Прая
- Upper Sorbian: Praia
- Urdu: پرائیا
- Uzbek: Praya
- Venetian: Praia
- Veps: Prai
- Vietnamese: Praia
- Volapük: Praia
- Waray (Philippines): Praia
- Welsh: Praia
- Western Frisian: Praia
- Western Mari: Прая
- Western Panjabi: پرائا
- Wolof: Praia
- Wu Chinese: 普拉亚
- Yoruba: Praia
- Yue Chinese: 培亞
Other Places Named Praia
In the Area
- VarzeaSuburb
- Bairro Craveiro LopesSuburb
- Lem FerreiraSuburb
- Achada GrandeSuburb
- FazendaSuburb
- FazendaSuburb
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