Old Cities
Praia on the island of Santiago which is home to over half of the Cape Verdean population, remains the largest city in Cape Verde with approximately 25% of the Cape Verdean population, followed by Mindelo on the Sao Vicente island.
The following table includes population data of the old Cape Verdean cities, with data from 1990, 2000 and 2010.
| Old Cities in Cape Verde | |||||
| Number | City | Population | Municipality | ||
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | |||
| 1. | Praia | 61,644 | 94,161 | 127,832 | Praia |
| 2. | Mindelo | 47,109 | 62,497 | 70,468 | São Vicente |
| 3. | Assomada | 3,414 | 7,067 | 12,026 | Santa Catarina |
| 4. | Porto Novo | 4,867 | 7,685 | 9,430 | Porto Novo |
| 5. | São Filipe | 5,616 | 7,860 | 8,125 | São Filipe |
Read more about this topic: List Of Cities And Towns In Cape Verde
Famous quotes containing the word cities:
“... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school—
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)