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Malé

Malé, pronounced Maa-leh, is the capital of . The city occupies the entire islet of Malé at the southern rim of North Malé Atoll. Malé is occasionally dismissed by travellers as a mere transit point with "nothing to do", and it is indeed not a party place.
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  • Type: City with 104,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Maldives
  • Also known as: “Maale” and “Malé City”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Football Stadium and Malé Friday Mosque.

Stadium
Photo: ZZ47, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as the Galolhu Rasmee Dhandu Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Malé, . It is used mostly for football matches of the Dhivehi Premier League, the Maldives FA Cup, the Maldivian FA Charity Shield, the President's Cup, the FAM Women's Football Championship, and national teams.

Mosque
Photo: Xavier Romero-Frias, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as the Malé Hukuru Miskiy, or the Old Friday Mosque, is a Sufi Sunni mosque, located in the city of Malé, , Maldives.

Government office
The in the Maldives is an embassy established by the in Malé, the capital of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villingili.

Village
Photo: Shahee, CC BY 4.0.
, administratively known as Villimalé is an island in the North Male Atoll and is considered the fifth district of Malé City. It lies about two kilometres west of Malé island and is reachable via local ferry service that operates 24 hours, between Malé and Villimalé.

Malé

Latitude
4.178° or 4° 10′ 41″ north
Longitude
73.5107° or 73° 30′ 39″ east
Population
104,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
MLE
United Nations Location Code
MV MLE
Open location code
6JPM5GH6+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3385374395
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1282027
Wiki­data ID
Q9347
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Malé” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Malé”
  • Afrikaans: “Malé”
  • Albanian: “Male”
  • Albanian: “Malé”
  • Amharic: “ማሌ”
  • Arabic: “ماليه”
  • Armenian: “Մալե”
  • Asturian: “Malé”
  • Awadhi: “माले”
  • Azerbaijani: “Male”
  • Balinese: “Malé”
  • Bashkir: “Мале”
  • Basque: “Male”
  • Belarusian: “Мале”
  • Bengali: “মালে”
  • Betawi: “Malé”
  • Bosnian: “Malé”
  • Breton: “Malé”
  • Bulgarian: “Мале”
  • Burmese: “မာလေမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Malé”
  • Cebuano: “Male”
  • Central Kurdish: “مالێ”
  • Chechen: “Мале”
  • Chinese: “Malé”
  • Chinese: “瑪律”
  • Chinese: “馬利”
  • Chinese: “馬累”
  • Chinese: “马累”
  • Croatian: “Malé”
  • Czech: “Male”
  • Czech: “Malé”
  • Danish: “Malé”
  • Dhivehi: “މާލެ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Malé”
  • Dutch: “Malé”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماليه”
  • Esperanto: “Maleo”
  • Estonian: “Male”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Malé”
  • Finnish: “Malé”
  • French: “Malé”
  • Galician: “Malé”
  • Georgian: “მალე”
  • German: “Malé”
  • Greek: “Μαλέ”
  • Guarani: “Male”
  • Gujarati: “માલે”
  • Haitian: “Male”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Malé”
  • Hausa: “Malé”
  • Hebrew: “מאלה”
  • Hindi: “माले”
  • Hungarian: “Malé”
  • Icelandic: “Malé”
  • Ido: “Male”
  • Ido: “Malé”
  • Iloko: “Malé”
  • Inari Sami: “Malé”
  • Indonesian: “Malé”
  • Interlingua: “Malé”
  • Interlingue: “Malé”
  • Irish: “Malé”
  • Italian: “Male”
  • Italian: “Malé”
  • Japanese: “マレ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಲೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Male (Maldiv Respublikası)”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Male”
  • Kazakh: “Мале қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Мале”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Malé”
  • Kirghiz: “Мале”
  • Komering: “Malé”
  • Korean: “말레”
  • Lao: “ມາເລ”
  • Latin: “Malé”
  • Latvian: “Male”
  • Ligurian: “Malé”
  • Lithuanian: “Malė”
  • Livvi: “Male”
  • Lombard: “Malé”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malé”
  • Macedonian: “Мале”
  • Maithili: “माले”
  • Malagasy: “Malé”
  • Malay: “Malé”
  • Malayalam: “മാലി ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Malayalam: “മാലി”
  • Marathi: “माले”
  • Mazanderani: “ماله (مالدیو)”
  • Mazanderani: “ماله”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Malé”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Malé”
  • Minangkabau: “Malé”
  • Mingrelian: “მალე”
  • Moksha: “Малэ”
  • Mongolian: “Мале”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماليه”
  • Nepali: “माले”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malé”
  • Northern Sami: “Malé”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malé”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malé”
  • Norwegian: “Malé”
  • Novial: “Male”
  • Nyanja: “Malé”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Male”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Malé”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲେ”
  • Ossetian: “Мале”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਲੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Malé”
  • Persian: “ماله”
  • Piemontese: “Malé”
  • Polish: “Male”
  • Polish: “Malé”
  • Portuguese: “Malé”
  • Pushto: “ماله”
  • Romanian: “Malé”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мале”
  • Russian: “Мале”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱞᱮ”
  • Sardinian: “Malé”
  • Scots: “Malé”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Malé”
  • Serbian: “Мале”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malé”
  • Shona: “Malé”
  • Sindhi: “ماله”
  • Sinhala: “මාලේ”
  • Slovak: “Male”
  • Slovenian: “Male”
  • Slovenian: “Malé”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماله”
  • Spanish: “Malé”
  • Swahili: “Malé”
  • Swedish: “Malé”
  • Tagalog: “Malé”
  • Tajik: “Мале”
  • Talysh: “Male”
  • Tamil: “மாலே”
  • Tamil: “மேலே”
  • Tatar: “Мале”
  • Telugu: “మాలే”
  • Thai: “มาเล”
  • Thai: “มาเล่”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ལེ།”
  • Turkish: “Male”
  • Turkish: “Malé”
  • Turkmen: “Male”
  • Udmurt: “Мале”
  • Uighur: “مالې”
  • Ukrainian: “Мале”
  • Urdu: “مالے”
  • Uzbek: “Male”
  • Venetian: “Male”
  • Veps: “Male”
  • Vietnamese: “Malé”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Malé”
  • Welsh: “Malé”
  • Western Frisian: “Malé”
  • Western Frisian: “Malee”
  • Western Panjabi: “مالے”
  • Wu Chinese: “马累”
  • Yoruba: “Malé”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬累”
  • Zulu: “i-Malé”
  • “Male”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Malé”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.