The flattest country in the world; its highest natural point is under 2.5 m above sea level.
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Maldives
Republic of the Maldives · ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ
Seven seas (open ocean)
· Southern Asia
0Population
300km² of land
$10.63KGDP / person
MaléCapital
- ISO codes
- MV · MDV
- Density
- 1,770 /km²
- Languages
- Maldivian
- Currency
- Maldivian rufiyaa (MVR)
- Dial code
- +960
- Internet domain
- .mv
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 4.1740° N, 73.5080° E
- Demonym
- Maldivan
- UN region
- Asia · Southern Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $5.64B
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Maldives stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
174th
of 242 · 0.01% of world population
Land area
208th
of 242 · 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
102nd
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
6th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Maldives
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 530,953 people, the 174th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 14,459 of everyone alive.
Covers 300 km², making it the 208th largest country here - roughly the size of Malta.
Population density is about 1,770 people per km², among the most crowded countries in the world.
The capital is Malé, at 4.17° N, 73.50° E, with a metropolitan population of about 112,927.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Indian/Maldives.
The currency is the Maldivian rufiyaa (MVR, symbol .ރ).
The official language is Maldivian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Indian/Maldives
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UTC+05:00
Cities
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1
★ Malé
4.1667° N, 73.4999° E
112.93K
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Maldives Atolls
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The flattest country on Earth - its highest natural point is under 2.4 m above the sea.