Flag of Cabo Verde
Its colour palette includes blue, white, red, and yellow.
Current flag
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Cabo Verde
Flag facts
Flag design
- Layout
- Complex layout
- Symbols
- Star – In the field
- Colours
- Blue, white, red, and yellow
Ten stars for Cabo Verde’s islands
Cabo Verde’s flag has a blue field crossed low down by narrow white-red-white bands, with a circle of ten yellow stars. The stars refer to the country’s ten principal islands, while their circular arrangement suggests unity.
Blue is associated with the sea and sky around the archipelago. The design adopted in 1992 replaced an earlier flag with a stronger Pan-African colour scheme, marking a change in the country’s national presentation.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Cabo Verde
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Praia
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- CV
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- CPV
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 132
- Top-level domain
- .cv
- Area
- 4,033 km²
- Population
- 527,326 (2025)
- Currency
- CVE
- Calling code
- +238
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Cabo Verde (1667–)
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About historical flags
Vexilla's historical flag collection includes former flags associated with present-day countries and territories, as well as flags of states, empires, and other authorities that historically governed them.
A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.