Maldives (English - maldives) officially the Republic of Maldives (English - Republic of Maldives) and the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a small umbrella. It consists of 26 islands in the cluster, and the Chagos archipelago of the Maldive Islands to close Laccadive, India, 400 km and 700 km southwest of Sri Lanka is located in the southwest.From the sixteenth century, Portuguese, Dutch and the British attention of the Maldives, the control system from 1965 trough Sultan served in the British became a republic full independence.
Indian Ocean has a large mountain range in the Maldive lakkadiv-Maldives-Maldives is located on top of mountains. Maldives and Minicoy Islands Maldive Islands belong to the same ecosystem. "Ætol" (tongue - atolhu) is Maldives clusters of square kilometers, 90,000 more than Ocean Pura scattered and it is one of the few states in the world's most dispersed. Maldives comprises 1192 islands of which 200 are inhabited.About one-third of its total population, live in Male, the capital of and largest city. Male, Maldives from historic Sultan LORDS and Islam as the capital of the kings before.
Maldives is the smallest Asian country by population and area of the hand. The average height of 1.5 m above sea level, and it is also a country in the world. The Maldives, a country of natural highest point in the world. The location of the island of 2.4 m height vilingili. There are serious threats faced by Maldives wept for the victims of the country because of the sea rising sea levels.
"Maldives" Cultural often name "mahaldib" to fragment may be āvak. Maldivians called a "Chagos," he said. "Vedic" Sanskrit Islands "(द्वीप)", or island, the "Chagos" to "Islands," the Aminidivi.Some people who received the name of the Maldives "Aminidivi" in Sanskrit. Which means "basement gyms Islands" means. The Malayalam translation "māladvīpu" (മാലദ്വീപ്) and the translation of "Aminidivi" (மாலைத்தீவு) is. But this is nothing but the Chagos, Does Age Sanskrit "Island of Women", meaning "garland" is the name. Garland to the Maldives, lakkadiv, aminidiv, minikoyi all the Maldive Islands called common application.
English language, "the Maldives" anachronistic meaning of the "necklace of islands umbrella" means. This fits well with the shape of the Maldives archipelago. Most of the Maldives island first inhabited or used by teams must be considered Lanka.Written in the second century in Sri Lanka chronicle Mahavamsa "Maheel tongue" as mentioned in the introduction, an island in Pali language as "women Island", meaning recovery. Sometimes it may be a corrupt form of Sanskrit application.
Medieval Arab traveler Ibn Batuta visited the Maldives in Arabic "apartments dibiyat" (محل دبيأت) has been introduced. "Apartments" in Arabic Origin means "palace" means. This may be how the Arab Berber Iban Batuta National Domestic app.The inhabitants of the Maldives have seen how he entered the Persian and Arabic words into India, visited North India under the control of Arab Muslims "apartments" meant his country would have thought to call. Mādivayin current state logo in Arabic says "dibiyat apartments," he said.
Doctors in ancient Arabic and Persian cavalier Maldives "dibajat" called.During the Dutch West under local fun "Maldivische Eilanden (moldivise eyilanden)" as described in the documents of their writing, English is "Maldives Islands" called. Later it "Maldives" was called.
Total Square Area - 298 square km
Capital City - Male
Language - Dhivehi
President - Abdulla Yameen
Prime Minister - Mohamed Jameel Ahmed
Independence Day - July 26th 1965
Population - 345,023
Currency - Maldivian Rufiaa (MVR)
Calling Code - 960
Total Square Area - 298 square km
Capital City - Male
Language - Dhivehi
President - Abdulla Yameen
Prime Minister - Mohamed Jameel Ahmed
Independence Day - July 26th 1965
Population - 345,023
Currency - Maldivian Rufiaa (MVR)
Calling Code - 960
