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North Miladhun madulu atoll, Maldives. Area: total: 298 square kilometres (115.1 square miles) land: 298 km 2 water: 0 km 2. Coastline: 644 kilometres (400 mi) Maritime claims: measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nautical miles (22.2 kilometres; 13.8 miles) contiguous zone: 24 nmi (44.4 km; 27.6 mi)
Time zone: UTC+05; Extreme points of Maldives: High: unnamed location on Villingili 2.4 m (8 ft) – lowest high point of any country; Low: Indian Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries: none; Coastline: Indian Ocean 644 km; Population of Maldives: 306,000 - 171st most populous country; Area of Maldives: 298 km 2; Atlas of Maldives
The Maldives consists of 1,192 coral islands grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls, that stretch along a length of 871 kilometres (541 miles) north to south, 130 kilometres (81 miles) east to west, spread over roughly 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 sq mi), of which only 298 km 2 (115 sq mi) is dry land, making this one of the world's most ...
square kilometre: km2 km 2: US spelling: square kilometer: 1.0 km 2 (0.39 sq mi) km2 sqmi; square metre: m2 m 2: US spelling: square meter: 1.0 m 2 (11 sq ft) m2 sqft; square centimetre: cm2 cm 2: US spelling: square centimeter: 1.0 cm 2 (0.16 sq in) cm2 sqin; square millimetre: mm2 mm 2: US spelling: square millimeter: 1.0 mm 2 (0.0016 sq in ...
The islands stand on a detached reef of their own with very deep waters (no sounding) between this reef and the northern end of the main Atoll. The length of this atoll is 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) with a width of 1 mile (1.6 kilometres). Today, of the two islands, only Alifushi is inhabited.
The island is 531.12 km (330 mi; 287 nmi) south of the country's capital, Malé. [2] Hithadhoo is the second largest island in the Maldives, with a surface area of 540 ha (5.4 km 2; 2.1 sq mi). It has a length of 6.8 km (4.2 mi) and a width of 1.8 km (1.1 mi) at its widest point.
≈ 404.6873 m 2: square foot: sq ft ≡ 1 ft × 1 ft: ≡ 9.290 304 × 10 −2 m 2: square foot (US Survey) sq ft ≡ 1 ft (US) × 1 ft (US) ≈ 9.290 341 161 3275 × 10 −2 m 2: square inch: sq in ≡ 1 in × 1 in: ≡ 6.4516 × 10 −4 m 2: square kilometre: km 2: ≡ 1 km × 1 km = 10 6 m 2: square link (Gunter's)(International) sq lnk ≡ ...
Addu Atoll is the only area in the Maldives that was not affected by the 1998 global coral bleaching. The south of the Maldives was spared from the "too warm" major ocean currents of ( El Niño ). The bright and healthy corals start at the top of giris and thilas (about 1 meter [3 ft] under the surface) and slope down with the reef to a depth ...