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Maldives—Profile Summary
1,265 words, approx. 4 pages (2001 est. pop. 311,000). Nature has blessed the Maldives with a living environment of tropical atolls and coral reefs that form a highly vulnerable marine ecosystem. Located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 700 kilometers off the southern tip of...
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709 words, approx. 2 pages Maldives The Republic of the Maldives is located in the Indian Ocean, the south-southwest of India. The Maldives comprises approximately 1,200 coral islands, grouped into twenty-six atolls, and covers an area of 300 square kilometers (116 square...
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Maldives Summary
6,987 words, approx. 23 pages Republic of MaldivesDhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa CAPITAL: Malé FLAG: The national flag consists of a white crescent at the center of a green field which, in turn, is at the center of a red field. ANTHEM: Gavmii mi erkuverikan matii tibegen...
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Maldives Summary
1,802 words, approx. 6 pages Maldives POPULATION 275,000 SUNNI ISLAM 100 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Maldives, known officially as Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa and also called Maldive Islands until 1969, is a group of 19 coral atolls and about 1,200...
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5,837 words, approx. 20 pages
 The Maldives (or Maldive Islands) (IPA: /ˈmɔlˌdaɪvz/ or IPA: /ˈmɔlˌdivz/), officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is located south of India's Lakshadweep islands,...




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Terrorism threatens Maldives tourism
11/12/2007: 1,385 words, approx. 5 pages While vacationing tycoons and bikini-clad Hollywood superstars blissfully sipped drinks on the Maldives' secluded white beaches, an Islamic revolution fueled by preachers trained in Pakistan and the Middle East was brewing.On Sept. 29, the two faces of the Maldives collided when a homemade bomb exploded...
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FBI assists with Maldives blast probe
10/1/2007: 370 words, approx. 1 pages U.S. authorities have sent FBI agents to the Maldives to aid with the investigation into a weekend bombing that injured 12 foreign tourists, U.S. officials said Monday.The nail-packed bomb exploded outside a crowded park in the Maldives capital, Male, on Saturday. It was the first...
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Maldives bomb wounds 12 foreign tourists
9/29/2007: 330 words, approx. 1 pages A homemade bomb exploded Saturday outside a crowded city park in the Maldives, wounding at least 12 people, all of them foreign tourists, a government official said.Officials in the Indian Ocean archipelago, renowned for its exclusive tourist resorts, said they did not know who was...
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Maldives set for historic election
8/17/2007: 767 words, approx. 3 pages To the tourists who fill its coffers, the Maldives is a paradise of private islands and secluded resorts. To the citizens who fill its cramped capital and far-flung atolls, it is a virtual dictatorship where dissent has been brutally quashed.Maldivians hope that will begin to...


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