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The Maldives government have adapted infrastructure in capital city Malé to the threats of climate change, including beginning to build a wall around the city. Climate change is a major issue for the Maldives. As an archipelago of low-lying islands and atolls in the Indian Ocean, the existence of the Maldives is severely threatened by sea ...
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 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland.
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.
All land above the surface in the Maldives is of coralline origin. The atolls of the Maldives form a quite regular chain and, especially in the northern and central atolls, an arrayed structure is apparent. There are broad and deep channels between some atolls. [1] The origin of the word "atoll" itself is in the language of the Maldives.
Maldives geography stubs (223 P) Pages in category "Geography of the Maldives" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The island is 77.92 km (48 mi; 42 nmi) south of the country's capital, Malé. [2] The land area of the island is 14.2 ha (35 acres) in 2018. [3] The island had an area of about 11.8 ha (29 acres) in 2003, when it was described as the largest inhabited island of the atoll. [4]
Thulusdhoo (Dhivehi: ތުލުސްދޫ) is the capital of Kaafu Atoll, which is an administrative division of the Maldives. The island is 26.81 km (17 mi; 14 nmi) northeast of the country's capital, Malé .
This list ranks the top 10 islands of the Maldives by area. Some islands in the Maldives, although geographically one island, are divided into two administrative islands (for example, Gan and Maandhoo in Laamu Atoll). For such cases, this list ranks the entire (combined) area of the geographical island.