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2. Maldives - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. List of islands of the Maldives - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Outline of the Maldives - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Where are the Maldives? What you need to know about this ...

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   Officially known as the Republic of Maldives or Maldive Islands, the independent nation of islands is located in the north-central Indian Ocean, southwest of Sri Lanka and India. Maldives is an ...

6. Atolls of the Maldives - Wikipedia

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   The islands in the atolls of the Maldives rest on the shelf provided by the reefs. Many reefs have no islands at all, but all islands in the Maldives have an underlying coralline reef. Usually islands are flat and sandy. Often there is a rocky bottom made up of a coral rock conglomerate underneath the island proper.

7. Where are the Maldives? What you need to know about this ...

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   Officially known as the Republic of Maldives, the nation of islands is located in the north-central Indian Ocean, southwest of Sri Lanka and India.