Which country is the Maldives close to?

Near India, below India. The Maldives is an independent country and an island country. The original name of the Maldives was the Maldives Islands. It was changed to the Republic of the Maldives in April 1969. The Maldives is located in South Asia, showing a long strip perpendicular to the equator. It is 820 kilometers long from north to south and 130 kilometers wide from east to west. It is located about 600 kilometers south of India and about 750 kilometers southwest of Sri Lanka.

The Republic of Maldives (formerly known as the Maldives Islands, changed to its current name in April 1969), is located in South Asia, with a total area of ??90,000 square kilometers and a land area of ??298 square kilometers. It is an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. , 820 kilometers long from north to south and 130 kilometers wide from east to west.

It consists of 26 groups of natural atolls and 1,192 coral islands, divided into 19 administrative groups, distributed in an area of ??90,000 square kilometers, of which 199 islands are inhabited and 991 are desert islands. The average area of ??the islands is It is 1-2 square kilometers, with low and flat terrain, with an average altitude of 1.2 meters. The Maldives has obvious tropical rainforest climate characteristics with no four seasons. The annual precipitation is 1900 mm, and the annual average temperature is 28°C.

Although the Maldives is a small country and was founded not long ago, it has many festivals and is also an Islamic country. On November 4, 2015, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives announced that the country had entered a state of emergency for 30 days. On October 13, 2016, the Maldives government decided to leave the Commonwealth.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia entry Maldives