{"id":338329,"date":"2025-05-27T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=338329"},"modified":"2025-05-28T19:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:07:30","slug":"key-facts-about-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-maldives\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India and Maldives explored ways to boost trade and strategic cooperation even as Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel backed New Delhi\u2019s fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n<h2>Key facts about Maldives<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_338339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338339\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-338339\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-World-Atlas.png?resize=364%2C374&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-World-Atlas.png?resize=292%2C300&amp;ssl=1 292w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-World-Atlas.png?resize=768%2C789&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-World-Atlas.png?w=793&amp;ssl=1 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; World Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located to the south of India or to the southwest of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>It is located on the central part of a submerged ocean mountain range called <strong>Laccadive-Chagos Ridge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Island chains:<\/strong> The Maldives is a chain of 26 coral atolls. There are 1,192 small islands in the Maldives, of these only about 200 are inhabited.<\/li>\n<li>This country consists of <strong>99% water <\/strong>and only <strong>1%<\/strong> of the area is <strong>land area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are no rivers in the Maldives and no hills, the highest points of the Maldives islands are about 15 ft above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>only two small freshwater lake<\/strong> on Foammulaku atoll.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong> The rainy season, from May to August, is brought by the <strong>southwest monsoon<\/strong>; from December to March the <strong>northeast monsoon<\/strong> brings dry and mild winds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Polity<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Capital<\/strong>: The capital city is called <strong>Male<\/strong> and located on the North Male atoll.<\/li>\n<li>This is the <strong>smallest country<\/strong> on the Asian continent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> The national language is Dhivehi, a language in Arabic script but derives from the Sinhala language spoken in Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion<\/strong>: <strong>Islam<\/strong> is the <strong>state religion<\/strong> and plays a central role in national governance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The currency of the Maldives is the rufiyaa. The coins are called laari.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>main industries<\/strong> of the Maldives are <strong>fishing, shipping<\/strong> and boat building, sand and coral mining and <strong>tourism<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>International cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Maldives is a member of the U<strong>nited Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the Non-Aligned Movement<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>It is is a <strong>Dialogue Partner<\/strong> of the <strong>Shanghai Cooperation Organisation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India and Maldives explored ways to boost trade and strategic cooperation even as Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel backed New Delhi\u2019s fight against terrorism. Key facts about Maldives Geography Location: It is located to the south of India or to the southwest of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean. It is located on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-facts-about-maldives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key facts about Maldives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":338339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-338329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-World-Atlas.png?fit=793%2C815&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}