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Maldives

The Maldives are an archipelago in the with picture-perfect beaches, strikingly blue water, and luxury resorts. There are 200 inhabited islands and 165 islands with tourist resorts.
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, pronounced Maa-leh, is the capital of Maldives. The city occupies the entire islet of at the southern rim of North Atoll. 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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is a region of the Maldives, which covers North Male Atoll, South Male Atoll and the islands of Kaashidhoo and Gaafaru.

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is the southernmost atoll in the Maldives. Hithadhoo, its capital, was the base of the short-lived United Suvadive Republic secessionist movement in 1959–1963.

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Atoll is one of the natural atolls of the Maldives. It is one of the biggest atolls and is located in the west of the archipelago. The almost rectangular alignment spreads the islands over an area of about 89 by 3 kilometres.

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is an atoll in Maldives. It's the northernmost atoll which is open to tourism in the country.

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Atoll is an administrative division of the Maldives. It consists of three separate natural atolls, namely southern Maalhosmadulu Atoll, the Fasdūtherē Atoll and the smaller natural Atoll known as Goifulhafehendhu Atoll.

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Atoll is in the Maldives. It's one of the southern atolls which is open to tourism in the country.

Maldives

Latitude of center
3.25° or 3° 15′ north
Longitude of center
73° east
Population
329,000
Area
300 km² (116 miles²)
Capital
Male
Currency
Rufiyaa (MVR)
Phone code
.mv
Internet domain
960
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1282028
Wiki­data ID
Q826
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Maldives” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Мальдив”
  • Abkhazian: “Мальдивтәи Ареспублика”
  • Achinese: “Maladewa”
  • Achinese: “Pulo Diwa”
  • Afrikaans: “Maledive”
  • Akan: “Maldives”
  • Albanian: “Maldive”
  • Albanian: “Maldivet”
  • Amharic: “ማልዲቭስ”
  • Amis: “Maldives”
  • Angika: “मालदीव”
  • Arabic: “المالديف”
  • Arabic: “جزر المالديف”
  • Arabic: “جزر الملديف”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية المالديف”
  • Arabic: “مالديف”
  • Aragonese: “Maldivas”
  • Armenian: “Մալդիվներ”
  • Arpitan: “Maldives”
  • Assamese: “মালদ্বীপ”
  • Asturian: “Maldives”
  • Atayal: “Maldives”
  • Avaric: “Малдиваби”
  • Awadhi: “मालदिभ्स”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maldiv adaları”
  • Balinese: “Maladéwa”
  • Bambara: “Maldivi”
  • Banjar: “Maladewa”
  • Bashkir: “Мальдив Республикаһы”
  • Basque: “Maldivak”
  • Bavarian: “Maledivn”
  • Belarusian: “Мальдзівы”
  • Belarusian: “Мальдывы”
  • Belarusian: “Мальдыўскія астравы”
  • Bengali: “মালদ্বীপ প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “মালদ্বীপ”
  • Betawi: “Maladéwa”
  • Bhojpuri: “मालदीव”
  • Bishnupriya: “মালদ্বীপ”
  • Bislama: “Maldiv”
  • Bosnian: “Maldivi”
  • Brahui: “Máldíp”
  • Breton: “Maldivez”
  • Bulgarian: “Малдиви”
  • Burmese: “မော်လဒိုက်”
  • Burmese: “မော်လဒိုက်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “မော်လ်ဒိုက်”
  • Catalan: “Maldives”
  • Catalan: “República de les Maldives”
  • Cebuano: “Maldives”
  • Central Bikol: “Maldibas”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی ماڵدیڤ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماڵدیڤ”
  • Chavacano: “Maldivas”
  • Chechen: “Мальдиваш”
  • Chechen: “Мальдиви”
  • Chinese: “Mǎěrdàifū”
  • Chinese: “Maldives”
  • Chinese: “馬爾代夫”
  • Chinese: “馬爾地夫”
  • Chinese: “马尔代夫/馬爾地夫”
  • Chinese: “马尔代夫”
  • Cornish: “Maldivys”
  • Corsican: “Maldivi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Maldivler”
  • Croatian: “Maldivi”
  • Czech: “Maladivy”
  • Czech: “Maledivská republika”
  • Czech: “Maledivy”
  • Dagbani: “Maldives”
  • Danish: “Maldiverne”
  • Dhivehi: “Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa”
  • Dhivehi: “ދިވެހި ރާއްޖެ”
  • Dhivehi: “ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ”
  • Dhivehi: “ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމުހޫރިއްޔާ”
  • Dhivehi: “ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Maldiwi”
  • Dotyali: “मालदिभ्स”
  • Dutch: “Maldiven”
  • Dutch: “Malediven”
  • Dutch: “MDV”
  • Dutch: “MV”
  • Dutch: “Republiek der Maldiven”
  • Dutch: “Republiek der Malediven”
  • Dzongkha: “མཱལ་ཌིབསི།”
  • Dzongkha: “མཱལ་དིབས”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мальдив”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مالديف”
  • Esperanto: “Maldivoj”
  • Esperanto: “MV”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko de Maldivoj”
  • Estonian: “Maldiivi Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Maldiivid”
  • Ewe: “maldivesdukɔ”
  • Extremaduran: “Maldivas”
  • Faroese: “Maldivoyggjar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Maldives”
  • Finnish: “Malediivien tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Malediivit”
  • French: “îles Maldives”
  • French: “la République des Maldives”
  • French: “Maldives”
  • French: “MV”
  • Fulah: “Maldiiwe”
  • Gagauz: “Maldivler”
  • Galician: “Maldivas”
  • Ganda: “Bizinga by’eMalidive”
  • Georgian: “მალდივები”
  • Georgian: “მალდივის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Malediven”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Maldives”
  • Gilaki: “مالديو”
  • Goan Konkani: “Maldives”
  • Goan Konkani: “मालदीव”
  • Gorontalo: “Maladewa”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία των Μαλδίβων”
  • Greek: “Μαλδίβες”
  • Guarani: “Mayndíva”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Maldiv”
  • Gujarati: “માલદિવ્સ”
  • Gujarati: “માલદીવ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Maldiv”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Maldives”
  • Hausa: “Maldibi”
  • Hausa: “Maldives”
  • Hawaiian: “Maladiwa”
  • Hebrew: “האיים המלדיביים”
  • Hebrew: “המלדיביים”
  • Hebrew: “מלדיבים”
  • Hindi: “मालदीव गणराज्य”
  • Hindi: “मालदीव”
  • Hindi: “मालदीव्स”
  • Hindi: “मालद्वीप”
  • Hindi: “मालाद्विप”
  • Hungarian: “Maldív Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Maldív-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Maldíveyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Maldívur”
  • Ido: “Maldivi”
  • Igbo: “Maldivesa”
  • Iloko: “Maldibas”
  • Inari Sami: “Malediiveh”
  • Inari Sami: “Malediivij täsiväldi”
  • Indonesian: “Maladewa”
  • Indonesian: “Maldives”
  • Interlingua: “Maldivas”
  • Interlingua: “Republica del Maldivas”
  • Interlingue: “Maldives”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Mhaildíve”
  • Italian: “Maldive”
  • Italian: “Repubblica delle Maldive”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Maldaivz”
  • Japanese: “マルジブ”
  • Japanese: “マルダイブ”
  • Japanese: “モルジヴ”
  • Japanese: “モルジブ”
  • Japanese: “モルディヴ”
  • Japanese: “モルディヴ共和国”
  • Japanese: “モルディブ”
  • Japanese: “モルディブ共和国”
  • Javanese: “Maladéwa”
  • Kabiyè: “Maldivii”
  • Kabyle: “Imeldiwen”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Maldives”
  • Kalmyk: “Мальдивмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಲ್ಡಿವ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಲ್ಡೀವ್ಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Maldiv Atawları”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Maldiv”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мальдивле”
  • Kashmiri: “مالدیٖو”
  • Kashmiri: “मालदीव”
  • Kashubian: “Malediwë”
  • Kazakh: “Мальдив аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “Мальдив Республикасы”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាល់ឌីវ”
  • Kikuyu: “Modivu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Malidivezi”
  • Kirghiz: “Мальдив”
  • Kirghiz: “Мальдивдер”
  • Komering: “Maladiwa”
  • Komi: “Мальдивъяс”
  • Kongo: “Maldives”
  • Korean: “말디브”
  • Korean: “말디브공화국”
  • Korean: “말디브제도공화국”
  • Korean: “몰디브”
  • Kurdish: “Maldîv”
  • Ladin: “Maldives”
  • Ladino: “Maldivas”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດມັລດີຟ”
  • Lao: “ມັນດິຟ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Maldivae”
  • Latvian: “Maldīvas”
  • Latvian: “Maldīvija”
  • Latvian: “Maldīvijas Republika”
  • Latvian: “Maldīvu Salas”
  • Lezghian: “Малдивар”
  • Lezghian: “Мальдивар”
  • Ligurian: “Maldive”
  • Limburgan: “Maledive”
  • Lingala: “Madívɛ”
  • Lingala: “Madívi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Divehi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Maldives”
  • Literary Chinese: “馬爾地夫”
  • Lithuanian: “Maldivai”
  • Lithuanian: “Maldyvai”
  • Livvi: “Maldiivat”
  • Lombard: “Maldive”
  • Low German: “Malediven”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Malediwy”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Madive”
  • Luxembourgish: “Maldiven”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malediven”
  • Macedonian: “Малдиви”
  • Maithili: “माल्दिभ्स”
  • Malagasy: “Maldiva”
  • Malay: “Maldiv”
  • Malay: “Maldives”
  • Malayalam: “മാലിദ്വീപ്”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Maldivi”
  • Maltese: “il-Maldivi”
  • Maltese: “Maldive”
  • Maltese: “Maldivi”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Maldivi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯥꯜꯗꯤꯚꯁ”
  • Manx: “Ny Maldeevaghyn”
  • Maori: “Maratīwi”
  • Marathi: “मालदीव”
  • Marathi: “मालदीव्ज”
  • Mazanderani: “مالدیو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Maldives”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maldives”
  • Minangkabau: “Maladewa”
  • Mingrelian: “მალდივეფი”
  • Mingrelian: “მალდივიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mongolian: “Мальдив”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لمالديڤ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مالديڤ”
  • Nauru: “Mardib”
  • Navajo: “Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah Yázhí”
  • Nepali: “मालदिभ्स”
  • Nepali: “माल्दिभ्स”
  • North Ndebele: “Maldives”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malediiwen”
  • Northern Sami: “Malediivvaid dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Malediivvat”
  • Northern Sami: “Maledivaid dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Maledivat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maldivene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Maldivene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maldivane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maldivene”
  • Norwegian: “Maldivene”
  • Novial: “Maldives”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maldivas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Maldifīega”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲଦିଭସ୍‌”
  • Oriya: “ମାଳଦ୍ଵୀପ”
  • Oromo: “Maaldivsi”
  • Ossetian: “Мальдивтæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “မော်ဒုဲက်ခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “मालदीव”
  • Pampanga: “Maldivas”
  • Pampanga: “Maldives”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਲਦੀਵ”
  • Papiamento: “Maldivas”
  • Persian: “مالدیو”
  • Picard: “Maldives”
  • Piemontese: “Maldive”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Maldiwes”
  • Polish: “Malediwy”
  • Portuguese: “Maldivas”
  • Pushto: “مالديپ”
  • Pushto: “مالديف”
  • Pushto: “مالدیو”
  • Quechua: “Maldivas”
  • Quechua: “Maldiwakuna”
  • Romanian: “Maldive”
  • Romansh: “Maldivas”
  • Rundi: “Moludave”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мальдив”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мальдива”
  • Russian: “Мальдивская Республика”
  • Russian: “Мальдивы”
  • Rusyn: “Малдивы”
  • Sakizaya: “Maldives”
  • Samoan: “Maldives”
  • Samogitian: “Maldīvā”
  • Sango: “Maldîva”
  • Sanskrit: “मालाद्वीपः”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱞᱫᱤᱯ”
  • Sardinian: “Maldivas”
  • Scots: “Maldives”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Mhaladaibh”
  • Serbian: “Малдиви”
  • Serbian: “Малдивска Република”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maldivi”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမေႃႇတိပ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Maldives”
  • Sicilian: “Maddivi”
  • Sicilian: “Madivi”
  • Sicilian: “Maldives”
  • Sicilian: “Maldivi”
  • Sicilian: “Malidivi”
  • Sicilian: “Malirivi”
  • Sicilian: “Mardivi”
  • Sicilian: “Marivi”
  • Sicilian: “Maudivi”
  • Sicilian: “Maurivi”
  • Silesian: “Malediwy”
  • Sindhi: “مالديپ”
  • Sinhala: “දිවෙහි රාජ්ජේ”
  • Sinhala: “මාල දිවයින”
  • Sinhala: “මාලදිවයින”
  • Skolt Sami: “Malediiv”
  • Skolt Sami: “Malediivi tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Slovak: “Maldivská republika”
  • Slovak: “Maldivy”
  • Slovenian: “Maldivi”
  • Somali: “Awdalka Maldiif”
  • Somali: “Jasiirada Maldiif”
  • Somali: “Maaldiifis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالدیو آدالاری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالدیو”
  • Spanish: “Maldivas”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Maldivas”
  • Spanish: “República de Maldivas”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Maldivikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵍⴷⵉⴼ”
  • Sundanese: “Maladéwa”
  • Swahili: “Maldivi”
  • Swahili: “Modivu”
  • Swati: “Tihlenge teMaldiva”
  • Swedish: “Maldiverna”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Maldiverna”
  • Swiss German: “Malediven”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠣꠟꠖꠤꠙ”
  • Tagalog: “Maldibes”
  • Tagalog: “Maldives”
  • Tajik: “Малдив”
  • Tajik: “Молдив”
  • Talysh: “Maldiv ləpəkon”
  • Tamil: “மாலத்தீவு”
  • Tamil: “மாலைத்தீவுகள்”
  • Taroko: “Maldives”
  • Tatar: “Мальдив утраулары”
  • Tatar: “Мальдивлар”
  • Telugu: “మాల్దీవులు”
  • Tetum: “Maldivas”
  • Thai: “ประเทศมัลดีฟส์”
  • Thai: “มัลดีฟส์”
  • Tibetan: “མལ་དྭིབ།”
  • Tibetan: “མལ་དི་ཝེསུ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ማልዲቭስ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Maldives”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Malativisi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Malediven”
  • Tumbuka: “Maldives”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “جزر المالديڥ”
  • Turkish: “Maldivler”
  • Turkmen: “Maldiwler”
  • Udmurt: “Мальдив”
  • Uighur: “مالدىۋ ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “مالدىۋ”
  • Uighur: “مالدىۋې”
  • Ukrainian: “Мальдіви”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Malediwy”
  • Urdu: “مالدیپ”
  • Uzbek: “Maldiv orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Maldivalar”
  • Venetian: “Maldive”
  • Veps: “Mal’divan Sared”
  • Vietnamese: “Maldives”
  • Vietnamese: “Man-đi-vơ”
  • Vlax Romani: “Maldive”
  • Volapük: “Maldivuäns”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maldivas”
  • Welsh: “Maldives”
  • Welsh: “Y Maldives”
  • Western Armenian: “Մալտայվզ”
  • Western Armenian: “Մալտիվներ”
  • Western Frisian: “Maldiven”
  • Western Panjabi: “مالدیپ”
  • Wolof: “Maldiif”
  • Wolof: “Maldiiw”
  • Wu Chinese: “马尔代夫”
  • Wu Chinese: “马尔代芙”
  • Yakut: “Мальдивтар”
  • Yiddish: “מאלדיוון”
  • Yiddish: “מאַלדיוון”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Maldive”
  • Yoruba: “Maladifi”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬爾代夫”
  • Zeeuws: “Mallediven”
  • Zhuang: “Maldives”
  • Zulu: “i-Maldives”
  • “ma Siwewi”
  • “ma Siwewilase”
  • “Maladewa”
  • “Maldīvā”
  • “Maldivas”
  • “मालदीव”

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