Mahé
Mahé is the largest and most populous island in the Seychelles, home to 90% of the country's population and its largest airport. It is home to the national capital, Victoria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Victoria and Morne Seychellois National Park.
Victoria
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Victoria is the capital of the Seychelles islands, on the island of Mahe. Victoria is one of the smallest capital cities in the world and the only major port in the Seychelles.
Morne Seychellois National Park
Photo: Botev, CC BY-SA 4.0.
There are few tropical rainforests in the world that have been left in their original pristine condition whilst free of all the nasty tropical diseases like zika or malaria – while there are close competitors in Australia and Singapore, there is no better example than the Seychellois island of Mahé's national park, Morne Seychellois National Park.
Beau Vallon
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Beau Vallon is a beach resort on the northwest corner of Mahe, Seychelles. This is where the majority of Seychelles' visitors stay during their visit and is also where much of the tourist infrastructure is located.
Mahé
- Type: Island with 78,500 residents
- Description: largest island of Seychelles
- Also known as: “Mahe”, “Mahe Island”, “Mahé Island”, and “Mahé, Seychelles”
- Location: Seychelles, East African Islands, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Mahé from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Mahé” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mahé, Seychelle”
- Arabic: “ماهيه”
- Armenian: “Մաե”
- Azerbaijani: “Mae”
- Basque: “Mahé (Seychelleak)”
- Basque: “Mahé”
- Belarusian: “Маэ”
- Bulgarian: “Мае”
- Catalan: “Mahé”
- Cebuano: “Mahé”
- Chinese: “馬埃島”
- Chinese: “馬赫島”
- Chinese: “马埃岛”
- Croatian: “Mahé (Sejšeli)”
- Croatian: “Mahé”
- Czech: “Mahé”
- Danish: “Mahé”
- Dutch: “Mahé”
- Esperanto: “Mahé”
- Estonian: “Mahe”
- Estonian: “Mahé”
- Finnish: “Mahé”
- French: “Mahe”
- French: “Mahé”
- Galician: “Mahé”
- Georgian: “მაე”
- German: “Mahé”
- Greek: “Μαέ”
- Hebrew: “מאהה”
- Hindi: “माहे”
- Hungarian: “Mahé”
- Indonesian: “Mahé, Seychelles”
- Indonesian: “Mahé”
- Interlingue: “Mahé”
- Italian: “Mahé”
- Japanese: “マヘ島”
- Korean: “마에 섬”
- Korean: “마에섬”
- Latvian: “Mae”
- Lithuanian: “Maė”
- Lithuanian: “Mahė”
- Lombard: “Mahé”
- Macedonian: “Мае”
- Malagasy: “Mahé”
- Malay: “Pulau Mahé”
- Neapolitan: “Mahé”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mahé”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mahé”
- Norwegian: “Mahé”
- Persian: “ماهی، سیشل”
- Piemontese: “Mahé”
- Polish: “Mahé”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Mahé”
- Portuguese: “Mahé”
- Russian: “Маэ”
- Serbian: “Махе”
- Spanish: “Mahe”
- Spanish: “Mahé”
- Swahili: “Mahé”
- Swedish: “Mahe”
- Swedish: “Mahé”
- Tajik: “Маэ”
- Ukrainian: “Мае”
- Urdu: “ماہے، سیچیلیس”
- Vietnamese: “Mahé, Seychelles”
- Vietnamese: “Mahé”
- Welsh: “Mahé, Seychelles”
- Welsh: “Mahé”
- Western Armenian: “Մայէ կղզի”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mahé”. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.