(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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Highlights and Key Issues * The economy grew by an impressive 18% last year after contracting by around 4% in 2005 following the end-2004 tsunami. The main drivers of growth have been tourism and high levels of reconstruction; a number of new hotels...

Not everyone, it seems, has heard of Maldives. Hassan Sobir tells of a visit to China where an official scrutinised his passport with some puzzlement and eventually asked, politely, whether his country might have changed its name recently. The Chinese official had clearly...

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...

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...