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.
The word Negro is used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance. Negro denotes black in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the ancient Latin word niger, meaning black, which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw- , to be dark, akin to *nokw- , night.