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exclusive economic zone: 923,322 km 2 (356,497 sq mi; 269,198 sq nmi) Elevation extremes: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Vilingili Island in the Addu Atoll 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) [The Maldives constitute the flattest country, i.e. they have the lowest high-point, of any country in the world).
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 ...
It is a huge atoll stretching SSW for 76 kilometres (47 miles) and contains nearly forty islands generally of a fair size. Kelaa , a large island forms a prominent point in the NE of this atoll. The western boundary has fewer islands but more isolated reefs or micro-atolls (called faru in Maldivian ), with wide passages between them.
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. 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.
“Here at Kurumba Maldives we don’t use island time and never have, simply because as the first resort in the Maldives the concept of island time didn’t exist,” says Ali Farooq, resort ...
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. The twenty-six atolls of Maldives' encompass a territory featuring 1,192 islets, two hundred and fifty islands of which are inhabited.
That includes the world’s longest nonstop commercial flight, between Singapore Changi Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, which takes between 18 to 19 hours on ...
As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between Europe and Asia. Inland water is included in area numbers.