What is Rhode Island famous for? Rhode Island is most well-known for being the smallest state in the United States with a total area of 1, 045 square miles and a width of only 37 miles. It is also the state with the longest official state name : State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
In English Cape Verde is the most westernly point of Africa, in Senegal. Verde is the word for the colour green in both Italian and Spanish. It's even spelled the same, maybe Homer had something when he claimed Spanish and Italian are the same language. :-) FunkinGoNuts Â· 1 decade ago.
Cape Verde, also known as Cabo Verde and officially as the RepÃºblica de Cabo Verde, is an island country in Africa. It is a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 570 km off the coast of Western Africa. The islands, covering a combined area of slightly over 4,000 km2, are of volcanic origin. Cape Verde is one of Macaronesia's group of islands.