Maldives

nation state

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Location	South Asia,Asia
Type	nation state
Small country of Islands in the Indian Ocean. Main source of income for most is tourism.

The Republic of the Maldives is small archipelagic state in South Asia situated in the Indian Ocean. It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 430 miles from the Asian continent's mainland. Comprising a territory spanning roughly 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 sq mi) including the sea, land area of all the islands comprises 298 square kilometres (115 sq mi), Maldives is one of the world's most geographically dispersed sovereign states and the smallest Asian country as well as one of the smallest Muslim-majority countries by land area and, with around 557,751 inhabitants.

Law

WorldABCNews reported in 2020 that a female "tourist was arrested in the Maldives for wearing a bikini on a beach for “indecent exposure”, but the incident is now under investigation."

Carbon reduction propaganda

In September 1988, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported a "gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover this Indian Ocean nation of 1196 small islands within the next 30 years," based on predictions made by government officials. Then-Environmental Affairs Director Hussein Shihab told AFP "an estimated rise of 20 to 30 centimetres in the next 20 to 40 years could be ‘catastrophic’ for most of the islands, which were no more than a metre above sea level." The article went on to suggest the Maldives, along with its 200,000 inhabitants, could "end" sooner than expected if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992 “as predicted."

In 2021, ABC reported that "at the current rate of global warming, almost 80% of the Maldives could become uninhabitable by 2050".