Maldives—Profile
(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 i...
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Maldives
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...
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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...
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Maldives
POPULATION 275,000SUNNI ISLAM 100 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Maldives, known officially as Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa and also called Maldive Islands until...
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Area: 298 sq km (115 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 300,000Capital:
Male
Head of state and government:
President
Maumoon Abdul
Gayoom
The issue of political reform topped the agenda of the
Mald...
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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 th...
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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...
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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 ar...
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LISBON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The President of the Maldives on
Wednesday called for urgent global action against climate
change, saying rising sea levels are threatening the survival of
his country's ...
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COLOMBO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A young man lunged at Maldives
President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with a kitchen knife on Tuesday
in what his spokesman called an assassination attempt, but he
was unharmed....
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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 dictator...
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The longtime president of this tiny Indian Ocean nation won an overwhelming victory Sunday in a referendum on the Maldives' future form of government, but the opposition slammed the results as rigg...
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Running out of space in its crowded capital, this republic of 1,200 islands thought it had a can't-miss solution: build another island.Planners weren't discouraged when people started eating the fr...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH Japanese EMBASSY'S INFORMATION)
At least 12 foreigners were injured in a bomb blast Saturday in
the Maldives capital, Male, according to reports from the Indian
Ocean isl...
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