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Position: degree of latitude: 07° 06'30" N to 00° 41'48" S and degree of longitude: 72° 32'30" E to 73° 45'54" E westside of India and Sri Lanka. Range: in length approx. 750 km (from north to south) / in width approx. 120 km (from west to east) Land territory: 1,196 mostly deserted islands with a total area of approx. 298 km 2.
The Maldives, [d] officially the Republic of Maldives, [e] and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400
Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka is the most common direct stop out of the Maldives as it is served by SriLankan Airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Flydubai and Gulf Air who operate a combined total of up to 7 flights daily between Sri Lanka and the Maldives. [71]
The land area of the island was described as being 37.4 ha (92 acres) in 2018. [4] However, in 2017, a land reclamation scheme was completed, which increased the land area by 40 ha (99 acres), [ 5 ] but which may not be reflected by the latter-dated figure.
In 2006 Sri Lanka Telecom and the Maldives state-run telephone company Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun commissioned a US$20 million joint venture to lay an undersea fibre-optic cable connecting Male to Colombo, Sri Lanka, with Japan’s NEC Corp as the main supplier.
The Maldives – island nation comprising a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean. [1] The Maldives is located south of India's Lakshadweep islands, and about seven hundred kilometres (435 mi) south-west of Sri Lanka. The twenty-six atolls of Maldives' encompass a territory featuring 1,192 islets, two hundred and fifty islands of which are inhabited.
Waldorf Astoria Maldives Ithaafushi Kaafu Atoll: Maldives 2019 [31] 26 Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Dana Point: United States 2021 (2001 as The St. Regis Monarch Beach, 2016 as Monarch Beach Resort) [32] 27 Waldorf Astoria New York: New York City: United States
Official and economic relations between the neighbouring Indian Ocean countries of the Maldives and Sri Lanka, have been positive since the Maldives became independent in 1965. The Maldives first established a mission in Sri Lanka in July 1965, and today has a High Commission in Colombo. [23] Sri Lanka has a high commission in Malé. [24]