Overview
The Maldives, fully the Republic of Maldives, conjointly known as an island, freelance island country within the north-central Indian Ocean. It consists of a series of regarding one,200 little coral islands and sandbanks (some two hundred of that square measure inhabited), sorted in clusters, or atolls. The islands extend quite 510 miles (820 km) from north to south and eighty miles (130 km) from east to west. The northmost coral reef is regarding 370 miles (600 km) sou’-sou’-west of the Indian earth, and also the central space, as well as the capital island of Male (Male’), is regarding four hundred miles (645 km) southwest of land.