The "small island country" Maldives: Asia's smallest capital, but the most crowded in the world

As we all know, the Maldives, known as the "Country of Thousand Islands", is the world's top island resort. You don't need to travel back and forth here, and you can enjoy the unique beauty of the area in the hotel without wasting time on the road. There are all kinds of villas there, such as beach villas, water villas, surfing, diving and other leisure sports, becoming a place for travel enthusiasts around the world to check in.

The Republic of Maldives, referred to as Maldives, is the smallest country in Asia and a small archipelago in the Indian Ocean consisting of more than 1,200 small coral islands. There are only 199 islands with permanent residents. The other 993 islands are uninhabited, with a total area of about 90,000 square kilometers, including territorial waters.

*How small is the Maldives？

On the world map, the Maldives is small enough to be ignored. The Maldives lies above the Indian Ocean, near the equator, facing the sea on all sides, with India in the north and Kenya and other countries in the west. From a visual point of view, the Maldives is a point on the map compared with its neighboring countries. From an intuitive comparison of data, the Maldives has an area of 90,000 square kilometers, India has 33 times the area of 2.98 million square kilometers, and Kenya's 590,000 square kilometers is more than 7 times that.
Therefore, in terms of area, the Maldives is the smallest country in Asia.

*Special geographical environment.

The Maldives is an island country composed of more than 1,200 small coral islands, which forms the unique underwater scene of the Maldives. These small coral reef islands are slowly distributed in the Indian Ocean, thus forming the Maldives, an archipelago country with a length of more than 800 kilometers from north to south and a width of more than 130 kilometers from east to west. In its territory of 90,000 square kilometers, its land area is only 298 square kilometers.
The special terrain conditions of the Maldives have laid the foundation for the development of tourism.

Judging from the climate of the Maldives, it is located near the equator and belongs to a low latitude area. As it is affected by low pressure zones throughout the year, the maritime climate characteristics are more obvious. All year round, warm and humid, like spring all year round, the climate is pleasant.
On the other hand, although the Maldives has relatively high precipitation throughout the year, each small coral island lacks the water storage function. Therefore, the fresh water resources in the Maldives are very scarce and can only rely on seawater purification to ensure fresh water supply.

*The most crowded capital

The Maldives has a population of 420,000, of which the capital Male’ has a population of 150,000, accounting for about 36% of the total population of the Maldives, but the area of Male’ is only 1.5 square kilometers.

Due to the relatively small area of Male’, the entire island is densely packed with buildings. Not only are the rooms narrow and small, but the roads are also narrow. Alleys occupy the majority. Therefore, the main way for citizens to travel is motorcycles, which are also the most important means of transportation in the Maldives. However, as far as the urban planning and design of the Maldives are concerned, it is still quite beautiful. The colors of the blue sea and blue sky, the buildings are arranged neatly and orderly, and the appearance of the city is also a beautiful landscape.