The Republic of Maldives is located in the equatorial waters of the Indian Ocean, about 700 km south-west of Sri Lanka and 340 km south of India . The length of the country is about 750 km (from north to south through 73 ° east longitude [1] ) and about 120 km wide (from west to east). It consists of 1,196 coral islands, grouped in a double chain of 26 atolls , located at the top of a submarine ridge stretching for 960 kilometers. The largest island of the Maldives - Gan. Many of the islands of the Maldives are uninhabited, inhabited only by a little more than 200 islands.
The population is about 395 thousand people. The biggest concentration is in Male .
The islands slightly rise above the ocean level: the highest point of the archipelago is on the southern Atoll of Addu (Siena) - 2.4 m. The total area is 90 thousand km², the land area is 298 km². Coastline: 644 km. The capital Male - the only city and port of the archipelago - is located on the eponymous atoll.
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Climate
The climate is subequatorial monsoon. Under the influence of the northeast monsoon dry from November to March and under the influence of the southwest monsoon rainy from June to August. Hot weather all year round, air temperature from 24 to 30 °. The air temperature never drops below +17 ° C in January-February and never rises above +37 ° C in April-May.
Water Resources
Constant sources of water from the Maldives is not.
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- ↑ Countries and Peoples - Overseas Asia - South Asia, Moscow, "Thought", 1982, p. 247, article "The Republic of Maldives"