Cape Verde is an African country that consists of 10 main islands and 5 tiny ones. It lies in the Atlantic Ocean, about 400 miles west of Senegal on the African mainland.
佛得角是一个非洲国家，由10个大岛和5个小岛组成，位于非洲大陆塞内加尔以西约400英里的大西洋中。
Cape Verde has a population of about 329,000 and a total area of 1,557 square miles. Sao Tiago, the largest island, covers 383 squares miles. There are no people living on Santa Lusia, the last of the ten larger islands, nor on the five small islands.
佛得角人口约329000，总面积1557平方英里。最大的岛屿圣蒂亚戈岛占地383平方英里。圣卢西亚岛是十个大岛中的最小一个，和其他五个小岛一样都没有人居住。
Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, is on Sao Tiago. However, the largest city Mindelo, is on Sao Vicente, the sixth largest island of the group. Portugal ruled the islands from the 1460’s until 1975, when Cape Verde became independent. Now Cape Verde is a republic with an elected president.
佛得角首都普拉亚位于圣蒂亚戈岛。不过，最大的城市明德洛位于第六大岛圣维森特岛。葡萄牙从1460年代开始统治群岛，直到1975年佛得角独立。现在佛得角是一个共和国，有一位民选总统。
About 70 per cent of the people of Cape Verde have mixed black African and Portuguese blood. The rest of the population are mostly black Africans.
大约70%的佛得角人属于非洲黑人和葡萄牙人混血，其余人口大多是非洲黑人。
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