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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
For administrative purposes the Maldives government organized these atolls into twenty-one administrative divisions. [2] The largest island of Maldives is Gan, which belongs to Laamu Atoll or Hahdhummathi Maldives. [3] In Addu Atoll the westernmost islands are connected by roads over the reef and the total length of the road is 14 km (8.7 mi). [4]
The island is 58.26 km (36 mi; 31 nmi) west of the country's capital, Malé. [2] It is the only inhabited island of a small natural atoll known as Rasdhoo, Rasdu or Ross Atoll located a few miles off NE Ari Atoll .
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Maldives: Administrative atoll ... The island is 135.56 km (84 mi; ...
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 .