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Sotavento Islands

southern island group of Cape Verde archipelago
AdministrativeArea administrative_territorial_entity_of_cape_verde Q500453
Sotavento Islands
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Facts

12 properties
Instance of
administrative territorial entity of Cape Verde, island group, first-level administrative division[6][7]
Country
Cape Verde[3]
Part of
Cape Verde Islands[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 15.000°, -24.000°, 🗺️ 15.000°, -23.583°
Continent
Africa[5]
Different from
Leeward Islands, Leeward Antilles, Leeward Islands, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands[15][16][17]
Elevation above sea level
+504[18]
Has part(s)
Maio, Brava, Fogo, Santiago[10][11][12][13]
Located in or next to body of water
Atlantic Ocean[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Cape Verde[2]
Named after
leeward[8]
Native label
Ilhas de Sotavento[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ilhas do Sotavento en Sotavento Islands ar جزر سوتافينتو cs Sotavento de Ilhas do Sotavento de Ilhas de Sotavento fa جزایر بارلاونتو fa جزایر سوتاونتو fi Sotaventosaaret fr Iles de Sotavento fr îles de Sotavento fr Ilhas de Sotavento he סוטאוונטו id Kepulauan Sotavento it Sotavento it Sotaventos ja ソタヴェント諸島 ko 소타벤투 제도 pl Ilhas de Sotavento pl Sotavento
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Sotavento-Islands
Freebase ID
/m/05j57q
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1313622
GeoNames ID
3374179
ISO 3166-2 code
CV-S
MusicBrainz area ID
5fec35d7-2269-42ae-8922-002471ffbe5b
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3408433

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 14
Tarrafal, Praia, Santa Catarina, São Miguel, Ribeira Grande de Santiago, Santa Cruz, São Domingos, São Salvador do Mundo +6 more
Has these parts 7
Santiago, Fogo, Brava, Maio, Ilhéu de Cima, Ilhéu Grande, Ilhéu Laja Branca
Different from 4
Leeward Antilles, Leeward Islands, Leeward Islands, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Has part(s) 4
Santiago, Fogo, Brava, Maio
← Different from 4
Leeward Antilles, Leeward Islands, Leeward Islands, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Instance of 2
administrative territorial entity of Cape Verde, first-level administrative division
Country 1
Cape Verde
Located in or next to body of water 1
Atlantic Ocean
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Cape Verde
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Summary

Sotavento Islands is an administrative territorial entity of Cape Verde[1].

Related Entities

Brava Cape Verde Fogo Santiago

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . iso.org. iso.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · Rémih · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Leeward Islands, Leeward Antilles, Leeward Islands +1
    Part of → —
    Coordinates → —
    Part of → Cape Verde Islands
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Continent: Africa"
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