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Santiago

largest and most populous island of Cape Verde
Landform island Q108448
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Summary

Santiago is an island[1]. Santiago ranks in the top 4% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,961 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: António de Noli[3]
  • Country: Cape Verde[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Atlantic Ocean[5]
  • Capital: Praia[6]
  • Location: Atlantic Ocean[7]
  • Part of: Sotavento Islands[8]
  • Commons category: Santiago (Cape Verde)[9]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1460[10]
  • Highest point: Pico da Antónia[11]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Cape Verde[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Santiago, Cape Verde[13]
  • Population: 290,000[14]
  • Category for people born here: Q24047469[15]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Santiago, Cape Verde[16]
  • Length: 75 km[17]
  • Area: 992 km²[18]
  • Width: 27.2 km[19]
  • P14541: 20JLEh[20]

Why It Matters

Santiago has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Santiago is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Cape Verde Praia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . visit-caboverde.com. visit-caboverde.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+992'}
    Sitelink count → 56
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'be', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el',
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/58669|batch #58669]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Santiago, Cape Verde
    Located in time zone → —
    Length → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+75'}
    Capital → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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