Maldives

Republic of Maldives

Formerly known as Maldives Islands and changed the name to republic of Maldives in 1969. It is an island nation in the Indian ocean and consists of more than 1200 small coral islands. The 202 island are inhabited. Area of ​​300 square kilometers, It is the smallest country in Asia. Maldives is an Islamic country.

Maldives is in the 4 degrees north latitude, 73 degrees east longitude. A total area of ​​90,000 square kilometers, it is Including the territorial sea area. A land area of ​​300 square kilometers. Indian Ocean archipelago nation. North to south and 820 km, West width of 130 km. Located about 600 km of south of India and about 750 km of southwest of Sri Lanka. Equatorial Strait of Southern Maldives and one and half degree channel are Maritime transport routes. It consists of 26 natural atolls and 1,192 coral islands. Divided into 19 administrative groups and distributed in 90,000 square kilometers of sea areas. 199 islands are inhabited and 991 island are uninhabited. Average area of island are​ ​1-2 square kilometer. Low-lying, The average elevation of 1.8 m, Located near the equator, Tropical rainforest climate, no four seasons. Annual rainfall of 1900 mm, the annual average temperature 28 ℃.

The capital of the Maldives is Male, Although the area of ​​only 5.789 square kilometers and the population more than 100,000, it divided Henveyru, Galolu, Machchangoli, Maafannu other four regions. Since the Maldives have been jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, so there are some buildings with a strong British flavor. In this state, people either cyclists or walk.

Environment influence

Ten thousand years ago, Because of a lot of ice sheets of Northern Hemisphere melted, Maldives Islands sea level sharp rise with 15 meters per thousand years. During the same period, the Maldives regional coral reefs are also rapid growth, that's why it has not been submerged. In about 6000 to 7000 years ago, sea level rise sharply slowed to 2...