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Seychelles

The Seychelles is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar and east of Kenya. It consists of 115 islands, of which the largest are Mahe, Praslin, and La Digue.
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is the capital of the Seychelles islands, on the island of Mahe. is one of the smallest capital cities in the world and the only major port in the Seychelles.

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is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the and the world's second-largest coral atoll.

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The Outer Islands or Coralline Seychelles is a collective term for those of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east.

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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, .

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is the second largest island of the Seychelles. lies 45 km to the northwest of . Back in the mid-18th century, the island was called Ile de Palme.

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is one of the smaller islands of the Seychelles. It is reasonably accessible, well served with accommodation and some tourist facilities, but is much quieter, picturesque and exclusive than Mahe or .

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lies 20 km northwest of in the Seychelles. It is the third largest granitic island in the Seychelles. It has an area of 20.1 km2 and has a population of 200, mostly workers on the island.

Seychelles

Latitude of center
-4.6805° or 4° 40′ 50″ south
Longitude of center
55.4755° or 55° 28′ 32″ east
Population
90,000
Area
455 km² (176 miles²)
Capital
Victoria
Currency
Rupee (SCR)
Phone code
.sc
Internet domain
248
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
241170
Wiki­data ID
Q1042
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Seychelles” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ареспублика Сеишелтәи Адгьылбжьахақәа”
  • Abkhazian: “Сеишелтәи Адгьылбжьахақәа”
  • Afrikaans: “Seychelle”
  • Akan: “Seyhyɛl”
  • Albanian: “Sejshelle”
  • Albanian: “Sejshellet”
  • Amharic: “ሲሸልስ”
  • Amharic: “ሲሼልስ”
  • Angika: “सेशेल्स”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية سيشل”
  • Arabic: “سيشل”
  • Arabic: “سيشيل”
  • Aragonese: “Seychelles”
  • Armenian: “Սեյշելյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Սեյշելներ”
  • Arpitan: “Sêch·èles”
  • Arpitan: “Sèchèles”
  • Assamese: “ছিচিলিছ”
  • Asturian: “Seixeles”
  • Azerbaijani: “Seyşel adaları”
  • Balinese: “Seychelles”
  • Bambara: “Sesɛli”
  • Bambara: “Seshel”
  • Banjar: “Seychelles”
  • Bashkir: “Сейшел Утрауҙары”
  • Bashkir: “Сейшель Утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Seychelleak”
  • Bavarian: “Seychelln”
  • Belarusian: “Сейшэлы”
  • Belarusian: “Сейшэльскія Астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Сэйшэлы”
  • Belarusian: “Сэйшэльскія астравы”
  • Bengali: “সিসিলি”
  • Bengali: “সেশেলস”
  • Betawi: “Sésèl”
  • Bhojpuri: “सेशेल्स”
  • Bishnupriya: “সেইশেল দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bislama: “Seisel”
  • Bosnian: “Sejšeli”
  • Breton: “Sechelez”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейшели”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейшелски О-ви”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейшелски острови”
  • Burmese: “ဆေးရှဲ”
  • Burmese: “ဆေးရှဲနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República de les Seychelles”
  • Catalan: “Seychelles”
  • Cebuano: “Seychelles”
  • Central Bikol: “Seytsilyes”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیشێل”
  • Chavacano: “Seychelles”
  • Chechen: “Сейшелан гlайреш”
  • Chechen: “Сейшелан гӀайренаш”
  • Chinese: “Sàishéěr Qúndǎo”
  • Chinese: “Seychelles”
  • Chinese: “塞席爾”
  • Chinese: “塞席爾共和國”
  • Chinese: “塞舌尔 / 塞席爾”
  • Chinese: “塞舌尔”
  • Chinese: “塞舌爾”
  • Chuvash: “Сейшел утравĕсем”
  • Cornish: “Seychellys”
  • Corsican: “Sexelles”
  • Cree: “Repiblik Sesel”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Seyşeller”
  • Croatian: “Sejšeli”
  • Czech: “Seychelská republika”
  • Czech: “Seychely”
  • Dagbani: “Seychelles”
  • Danish: “Seychellerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ތޭންގަދީބު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Seyşeli”
  • Dotyali: “सेसेल्स”
  • Dutch: “Republiek der Seychellen”
  • Dutch: “Seychellen”
  • Dzongkha: “སེ་ཤཱལས”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сейшел-влак”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيشيل”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko de Sejŝeloj”
  • Esperanto: “Sejŝeloj”
  • Estonian: “Seiiellid”
  • Estonian: “Seišelli Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Seišellid”
  • Ewe: “Seshɛls nutome”
  • Ewe: “Seychelles”
  • Extremaduran: “Seychelles”
  • Farefare: “Seychelles”
  • Faroese: “Seyskelloyggjar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Seychelles”
  • Finnish: “Seychellien tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Seychellit”
  • French: “la République des Seychelles”
  • French: “Repiblik Sesel”
  • French: “République des Seychelles”
  • French: “sc”
  • French: “Seychelles”
  • Fulah: “Seysel”
  • Ga: “Seishelles”
  • Gagauz: “Seyşeller”
  • Galician: “Seixeles”
  • Galician: “Seychelles”
  • Ganda: “Sesere”
  • Ganda: “Seychelles”
  • Georgian: “სეიშელის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Republik der Seychellen”
  • German: “Republik Seychellen”
  • German: “Seschellen”
  • German: “Seychellen”
  • German: “Seyschellen-Inseln”
  • German: “Seyschellen”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Seychelles”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Seychelles”
  • Gilaki: “سیشل”
  • Greek: “Σεϋχέλλες”
  • Guarani: “Séichele”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Séchèl”
  • Gujarati: “સેશેલ્સ”
  • Gun: “Seychelles”
  • Haitian: “Sechèl”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Seychelles”
  • Hausa: “Seychelles”
  • Hebrew: “איי סיישל”
  • Hebrew: “סיישל”
  • Hindi: “सेशेल्स”
  • Hungarian: “Seychelle-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Seychelle-szigeteki Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Seychelles”
  • Icelandic: “Seychelles-eyjar”
  • Ido: “Seycheli”
  • Igbo: “Seychelles”
  • Iloko: “Seychelles”
  • Inari Sami: “Seychelleh”
  • Inari Sami: “Seychellij täsiväldi”
  • Indonesian: “Seychelles”
  • Interlingua: “Seychelles”
  • Interlingue: “Seychelles”
  • Irish: “na Séiséil”
  • Irish: “Na Séiséil”
  • Italian: “Seicelle”
  • Italian: “Seychelles”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Seishelz”
  • Japanese: “セーシェル”
  • Japanese: “セーシェル共和国”
  • Japanese: “セイシェル”
  • Javanese: “Sésèl”
  • Javanese: “Sèychèlles”
  • Kabyle: “Seychelles”
  • Kalmyk: “Сейшел Арлин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಸೀಶೆಲ್ಲೆಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆಶೆಲ್ಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Seyshel atawları”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Seyshel Atawları”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сейшел айрымканла”
  • Kashmiri: “سیشَلِس”
  • Kazakh: “Сейшель аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “Сейшель Аралдары”
  • Khmer: “សីស្ហែល”
  • Kikuyu: “Seychelles”
  • Kikuyu: “Shelisheli”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Seyishele”
  • Kirghiz: “Сейшел аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Сейшел Аралдары”
  • Kongo: “Seychell”
  • Korean: “세이셸”
  • Korean: “세이쉘”
  • Korean: “세이쉘공화국”
  • Korean: “쉐이쉘”
  • Kotava: “Seycella”
  • Kurdish: “Seyşel”
  • Ladin: “Seychelles”
  • Ladino: “Seychelles”
  • Lao: “ເຊເຊວເລສ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເຊເຊລ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Seisellenses”
  • Latvian: “Seišelas”
  • Latvian: “Seišelu Republika”
  • Latvian: “Seišelu salas”
  • Ligurian: “Seychelles”
  • Limburgan: “Seychelle”
  • Lingala: “Seyshel”
  • Lingala: “Sɛshɛlɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sexeles”
  • Literary Chinese: “塞席爾”
  • Lithuanian: “Seišeliai”
  • Livvi: “Seišellit”
  • Lombard: “Seychelles”
  • Low German: “Seychellen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Seychelle”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Seshele”
  • Luxembourgish: “Seychellen”
  • Macedonian: “Сејшели”
  • Malagasy: “Seisely”
  • Malagasy: “Seychelles”
  • Malagasy: “Seyshela”
  • Malay: “Seychelles”
  • Malay: “سيچيل‌س”
  • Malayalam: “സീഷെൽസ്”
  • Malayalam: “സെയ് ഷെൽസ്”
  • Malayalam: “സെയ്‌ഷെൽസ്”
  • Maltese: “is-Seychelles”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tas-Seychelles”
  • Maltese: “Seychelles”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯦꯆꯦꯜꯂꯦꯁ”
  • Manx: “Ny h-Ellanyn Heshell”
  • Manx: “Ny h-Ellanyn Sheshell”
  • Maori: “Heikere”
  • Marathi: “सेशेल्स”
  • Mazanderani: “سیشل”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Seychelles”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sesel”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Seychelles”
  • Minangkabau: “Seychelles”
  • Mingrelian: “სეიშელიშ კოკეფი”
  • Moksha: “Сэйшэлтне”
  • Mongolian: “Сейшелийн арлууд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سيشيل”
  • Nauru: “Seychelles”
  • Nepali: “सेचेलेस”
  • Nepali: “सेसेल्स”
  • Newari: “सिशेल्स”
  • North Ndebele: “Seychelles”
  • Northern Frisian: “Seschelen”
  • Northern Luri: “سیشئل”
  • Northern Sami: “Seychellaid dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Seychellat”
  • Northern Sami: “Seychellsullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Seychellene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Seychellene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Seychellane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Seychellene”
  • Norwegian: “Seychellene”
  • Novial: “Seyshels”
  • Obolo: “Seyichelis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Seichèlas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Segscelliega”
  • Oriya: “ସେଚେଲସ୍”
  • Oriya: “ସେସେଲଜ”
  • Oromo: “Siishelsi”
  • Ossetian: “Сейшелтæ”
  • Pali: “सेशेल”
  • Pampanga: “Kasesielan”
  • Pampanga: “Seychelles”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਸ਼ਲਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਸ਼ੈਲ”
  • Pedi: “Seychelles”
  • Persian: “سیچلز”
  • Persian: “سیشل”
  • Piemontese: “Seychelles”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sieshels”
  • Polish: “Republika Seszeli”
  • Polish: “Seszele”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Seychelles”
  • Portuguese: “República das Seychelles”
  • Portuguese: “sc”
  • Portuguese: “Seicheles”
  • Portuguese: “SEY”
  • Portuguese: “Seychelles”
  • Portuguese: “Sychelles”
  • Pushto: “سيشل”
  • Pushto: “سیچیلیس”
  • Pushto: “سیشل”
  • Quechua: “Seychelles”
  • Quechua: “Sichillakuna”
  • Rakhine: “ဆီးရှဲ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Seychelles”
  • Romansh: “Seychellas”
  • Rundi: “Amazinga ya Seyisheli”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сейшелиин аралнууд”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сейшелийн арлууд”
  • Russian: “Республика Сейшельские Острова”
  • Russian: “Сейшелы”
  • Russian: “Сейшельские о-ва”
  • Russian: “Сейшельские острова”
  • Russian: “Сейшельские Острова”
  • Samoan: “Seychelles”
  • Samogitian: “Seišielē”
  • Sango: “Sëyshêle”
  • Sanskrit: “सेशेल”
  • Sardinian: “Seychelles”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Seychelle”
  • Scots: “Seychelles”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Sheiseall”
  • Serbian: “Sejšeli”
  • Serbian: “Сејшели”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sejšeli”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသေးသျႄႇ”
  • Shona: “Seychelles”
  • Shona: “Seyisheri”
  • Sicilian: “Seicelli”
  • Silesian: “Seszele”
  • Sindhi: “سيچيليس”
  • Sindhi: “سيشيلز”
  • Sindhi: “شي شلز”
  • Sinhala: “සීශෙල්ස්”
  • Sinhala: “සීෂෙල්ස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Seycheeʹll”
  • Skolt Sami: “Seycheeʹlli tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Slovak: “Seychelská republika”
  • Slovak: “Seychelské ostrovy”
  • Slovak: “Seychely”
  • Slovenian: “Sejšeli”
  • Somali: “Seyshelles”
  • Somali: “Sishelis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیشل”
  • Southern Sotho: “Seychelles”
  • Spanish: “Republica de las Seychelles”
  • Spanish: “República de las Seychelles”
  • Spanish: “Seychelles”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵉⵛⵍ”
  • Sundanese: “Seychéll”
  • Swahili: “Shelisheli”
  • Swahili: “Ushelisheli”
  • Swati: “ISeyishelesi”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Seychellerna”
  • Swedish: “Seychellerna”
  • Swiss German: “Seychellen”
  • Sylheti: “ꠍꠦꠌꠤꠟꠤ”
  • Tagalog: “Seychelles”
  • Tagalog: “Seyshels”
  • Tajik: “Сейшел”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Сейшел”
  • Talysh: “Sejšeli ləpəkon”
  • Talysh: “Seyşeli”
  • Tamil: “சீசெல்சு”
  • Tamil: “சீஷெல்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Сейшел утраулары”
  • Telugu: “సీషెల్స్”
  • Telugu: “సేషెల్స్”
  • Thai: “เซเชลส์”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเซเชลส์”
  • Tibetan: “སཱ་ཤཻལ།”
  • Tibetan: “སེ་ཞེལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሲሼልስ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Seysel”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Seiseli”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Seychellen”
  • Tsonga: “Seychelles”
  • Tumbuka: “Seychelles”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “سيشال”
  • Turkish: “Seychelles”
  • Turkish: “Seyşel Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Seyşeller”
  • Turkmen: “Seýşel adalary”
  • Turkmen: “Seýşel Adalary”
  • Udmurt: “Сейшел шормуӵъёс”
  • Uighur: “سېيشېل ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “سېيشېل”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Сейшельські Острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Сейшели”
  • Ukrainian: “Сейшельські Острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Seychelle”
  • Urdu: “سشلیز”
  • Urdu: “سیشیلز”
  • Uzbek: “Seyshel orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Seyshell orollari”
  • Venetian: “Seicełe”
  • Venetian: “Seychelles”
  • Veps: “Seišelan Sared”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Seychelles”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Seychelles”
  • Vietnamese: “Seychelles”
  • Vietnamese: “Xây sen (Seychelles)”
  • Vietnamese: “Xây-sen”
  • Vlax Romani: “Seychelles”
  • Volapük: “Säceluäns”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Seychelles”
  • Welsh: “Seychelles”
  • Western Armenian: “Սեշել կղզիներ”
  • Western Frisian: “Seychellen”
  • Western Frisian: “Seysjellen”
  • Western Mari: “Сейшелвлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “سشلز”
  • Wolof: “Seysel”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞舌尔”
  • Yakut: “Сейшеллар”
  • Yiddish: “סיישעל”
  • Yoruba: “Ṣèíhẹ́lẹ́sì”
  • Yoruba: “Ṣeṣẹlẹsi”
  • Yue Chinese: “塞舌爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Seychell’n”
  • Zhuang: “Seychelles”
  • Zulu: “i-Seychelles”
  • Zulu: “IsiSeyisheli”
  • “ma Sese”
  • “SC”
  • “Seišelē”
  • “Seychelles”
  • “SYC”
  • “सेशेल्स”

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