Maldives - Quick facts
- Maldives has a chain of 26 atolls
- More than 1100 small islands on each of these atolls
- Territory of almost 90,000 square kilometers
- Land area combined in all the island reaches almost 298 square kilometers
- Average elevation from the water line reaches up to 1.5 meters
- The highest known point reaches only 2.4 meters
- Tropical climate mostly sunny throughout the year with two seasons namely Iruvai and Hulhangu
- The average high temperature is 31.5 degrees Celsius and the average low temperature is 26.4 degrees Celsius
- Maldives is a presidential constitutional republic
- Islamic Shari'ah
- Driving side is left
- Calling code +960 or 00960
- ISO 3166 code MV
- International Top-Level Domain - .mv
- Time zone UTC +5
- language - Dhivehi
- Second language - English
- Ethnic group Maldivian
- Capital City - Male'