Flag of Cabo Verde
Educational illustration shown at 4:3. The reference proportion is 2:3.
How to recognise it
A blue field with thin white, red and white stripes below the middle and a ring of ten yellow stars towards the hoist.
- Name in the quiz
- Cabo Verde
- Also called
- Cape Verde
- UN member state name
- Cabo Verde
- ISO 3166-1 code
- CV
- Atlas Play pack
- West Africa (explorer pack)
Easily confused with
CubaCabo Verde: a ring of yellow stars and a red stripe. Cuba: a red triangle with one white star.
Guinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau: red, yellow and green with one black star. Cabo Verde: blue with a ring of ten yellow stars.
Marshall IslandsCabo Verde: flat thin stripes and a ring of stars. Marshall Islands: diagonal stripes and one big white star.
Source and checks
Design reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cape_Verde (revision 1376842958) (Five unequal-sized horizontal bands of blue, white, red, white, and blue (6:1:1:1:3), with a circle of ten yellow five-pointed stars charged on the hoist side, centred on the red band; proportion 2:3). Checked 2026-10-21 by Claude (AI build agent): rendered flag-icons artwork compared side by side with the reference article’s lead image and its infobox design description; no human editorial review yet. Artwork: flag-icons 7.6.0 (package/flags/4x3/cv.svg), MIT licence, licence text; sanitised copy sha256 699dfdf1d0bd…. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.