Geography Now! Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)

Seriously though Cape Verde, lay off the hurricanes a bit.

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[Codmonster]

*learns geography instead of studying for finals*

[jesuschrist]

"I like to scan Google Maps a lot. It's very therapeutic for me." Honestly have never related to something more in my entire life.

[xandudicanda]

I'm Cape Verdean and I must say, great job! There are some little mistakes but, in general, you nailed it!
For instance, Cape Verde does not have only 3 volcanoes. The islands are of volcanic origin, therefore, almost every mountain is a volcano. Extinct ones but still volcanoes.
Those figures in "ethnicity" were data used by the Portuguese in the colonial period. They are not accurate and since the independence there hasn't been any statistics about races. I mean, come on! In a country like Cape Verde how can you know exactly if a person is black, white or mestiço?
The Guinea-Bissau Creole is indeed similar to Cape Verdean Creole (kinda Portuguese and Spanish are similiar). The culture... mmm... no that much. But Cape Verde was in fact the principal country to help Guinea-Bissau in the political turmoil in the 90's.
Once again, congrats!

[domagojkirigin]

I fell in love 5 times a day while I was there. Absolutely beautiful people, very positive, open, welcoming and humble and they know how to enjoy life. Music, dance, smile, no stress! :) Cheers to all capo verdean people! Muito bonito, Cabo Verde! :)

[AdrianoUrielSdosSantos]

Abraços do Brasil aos irmãos de Cabo Verde. ;)

[GeographyNow]

Ahh Cape Verde, Africa's most adorable little sociopath....

[marcelolima]

I really wanna visit Cabo Verde someday, i heard it is a wonderful place for vacation! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[bernardobila]

Abraço aos irmãos e irmãs de Cabo Verde, sou de Moçambique 🇲🇿🇲🇿❤️

[Nadlocked]

We have a lot of people from cabo verde in Senegal. We hate them cause they're so handsome and get all the girls :/

[badada]

Thank you so much for talking about CV, You have idea how happy I am to see something about my country! 🇨🇻 and you funny man 😗👌

[LuisLopez]

I am from the Canary Islands are the geographical distribution is exactly the same as the Cape Verde islands: the Eastern islands are dry and flatter while the Western islands are green and mountainous.

[ketamne]

Should have also mentioned the fairly transparent government there too. Second least corrupt in Africa, for that matter.

[MinorCirrus]

In France, the most famous Capeverdian national was the singer Cesaria Evora. She was probably the biggest name in what France usually calls "musique du monde", which is a metagenre regrouping pretty much every "exotic" music that is seldom if ever performed by actual French people.

[vtonyvicente]

Hey, so I absolutely love this vid & it's undoubtedly my favorite vid about CV. But being Cape Verdean myself, I think i'm obligated to inform you that it's probably not best you refer to the country or its inhabitants as "Halfrican". I totally get what you're getting at & that you mean nothing malicious whatsoever. It's just that Cape verde is part of Africa so for that reason alone, its inhabitants should be referred to as African. Yes, we're a mixed race nation & I love & am proud to be a Cape Verdean but as you mentioned, most of us borrow alot of cultural traditions from portugal. What's little known is that unfortunately, many cape verdeans try ignoring their African heritage all together & in fact, will often say that they are just Portuguese. This form of self hate or denial, rather, is only reinforced by false terms like Halfrican. Hope you understand. Thanks again for the informative & powerful vid! Keep em coming, please!

[aissatu.]

As a Bissau-Guinean who's lived in Cabo Verde and has many friends there, thanks!

[eusebioteles]

1:25 it is Madeira, that means "wood" in Portuguese. C'mon Paul, when the Portugal video comes out i want to see you say the name of my adorable island right!!

[Olonne]

Oh Sodade... Sadadi di nha Cesaria...
Oh Sodade... Sadadi di nha Cesaria...
Oh Sodade... Sadadi di nha Cesaria...
Oh Sodade... Sadadi di nha Cesaria...
Ave Cesaria...

[chipsdubbo]

So... I can't learn Geography Later?

[Toastmaster_]

As someone who went to college in Boston, I can confirm that there are a LOT of Cape Verdians there. Really nice people though, and very loud.

[guilhermela]

I know a guy from Cape Verde, he came to Brazil to study business on my uni, very nice guy, told me a lot about his country and his people, hope some day i get to go there, he said that the Fogo island is very interesting.