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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.
Maps. Google Maps satellite image of the Maldives; WikiMapia.org annotated map of the Maldives; Maps of the Maldivian Atolls; Overviews and Data. CIA World Fact Book on Maldives "Maldives: Paradise soon to be lost". BBC News. 2004-07-28; History and Culture. Anthropologic, Ethnographic and Ethnologic information about the Maldives
The southernmost Atoll of the Maldives, Addu Atoll, is not visible on the image. 1814 map of 'The Maldiva Islands' by Captain James Horsburgh. The Maldives Islands are formed by 20 natural atolls , along with a few islands and isolated reefs today which form a pattern stretching from 7 degrees 10′ North to 0 degrees 45′ South.
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.
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