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The Administrative Divisions of the Maldives refers to the various units of government that provide local government services in the Maldives.According to the Decentralization Act 2010, the administrative divisions of the Maldives would consist of atolls, islands, and cities; each administered by their own local council, under the basic terms of home rule.
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 .
Out of 1,192 islands of the Maldives, 187 are inhabited. [1] They are listed by administrative division/atoll. The islands are divided into: Inhabited islands- those officially recognized as towns, villages, fishing, and farming communities with permanent human habitation. They all have an island office and island chiefs (councilor and "katheeb ...
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 island is 175.89 km (109 mi; 95 nmi) north of the country's capital, Malé. [2]Geographically, Manadhoo is situated in the very centre of the atoll equally reachable for rest of other inhabited island to the north and south-west of the atoll.
Old Malaafaiy wooden food cover with Arabic inscription. From Thulhadhoo, kept at the National Museum, Maldives. The island has been reclaimed by the government recently. The island is famous for its lacquer work. It used to supply the noble families in the country with lacquered items, but now most of Thulhaadhoo's lacquer work is sold to ...
Fuvahmulah (Dhivehi: ފުވައްމުލައް) is an island in the Maldives.It is under Maldives' administrative division of Gnaviyani (or Nyaviyani) Atoll. The island is the second southernmost administrative atoll, located to the south of Huvadhu Atoll and to the north of Seenu Atoll.
Gan is the second largest island of the atoll, after Hithadhoo, and measures 2.2561 square kilometres (0.87 sq mi) in area. Gan was formerly inhabited, but its inhabitants were moved to neighbouring islands after the British naval and airbase was built.