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Dhivehi Raajje (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 03 12 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 3.2000 decimal degrees
Long: 073 00 00 E degrees minutes Long: 73.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Comprises clusters of islands in Indian Ocean; settled by 5th century BCE by peoples from Ceylon and southern India; Islam introduced 12th century; generally free of European domination, except for Portuguese rule 16th century and British protection 19th to mid-20th century; official language is Divehi (a dialect Sinhala with script derived from Arabic), but English is generally spoken in the government.
Names:
Dhivehi Raajje (preferred C ,V ,English-P ,L )Dhivehi Raajje Maldivian (transliterated)-P ,U )Maldives (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )Maldives Tagalog )Maldives Maltese )Maldives Vietnamese )Maldives Indonesian )Maldives Catalan )Maldives Asturian )Maldives Akan )Maldives Welsh )Maldives French-P ,U ,N )Maldives Malay (macrolanguage) )Maldives North Ndebele )Maldives Shona )Maldives Arpitan )Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa (C ,V ,Maldivian (Divehi) )Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa Maldivian (transliterated) ,U )Divehi (C ,V ,Maldivian (transliterated) ,U )Divehi Jumhuriyya (C ,V ,Maldivian (transliterated) ,U )Divehi Jumhuriya (C ,V ,Maldivian (transliterated) ,U )Republic of Maldives (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )République des Maldives (C ,O ,French ,U ,N )Maldivas (C ,O ,Portuguese )Maldivas Spanish-P ,U ,N )Maldivas Aragonese )Maldivas Galician )Maldivas Occitan )Maldivas Romansh )Maldivas Pampanga )República de Maldivas (C ,O ,Spanish ,U )Maladiven (C ,O )Malediven (C ,O ,German )Malediven Low German )ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ (C ,V ,O ,Maldivian (Divehi) ,U )Мальдивские Острова (C ,O ,Russian-P ,U )Мальдивская Республика (C ,O ,Russian ,U )马尔代夫 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )马尔代夫共和国 (C ,O ,Chinese ,U )ملدفً (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )جُهور ةً ملدفً (C ,O ,Arabic ,U )MDV (C ,O ,ISO3L )MV (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO462 (C ,O ,ISO3N )Maldivian (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )Bizinga by'eMalidive (C ,U ,Ganda (Ugandan language) )i-Maldives (C ,U ,Zulu )Insulae Maldivae (C ,U ,Latin )Maaldiqeen (C ,U ,Somali )Madívɛ (C ,U ,Lingala )Madive (C ,U ,Luba-Katanga )Maladewa (C ,U ,Indonesian )Maladivy (C ,U ,Czech )Malativisi (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Maldibi (C ,U ,Hausa )Maldiivid (C ,U ,Estonian )Maldiiwe (C ,U ,Fulah )Maldiv (C ,U ,Azerbaijani )Maldiv Haitian (Haitian Creole) )Maldiv Malay (macrolanguage) )Maldîva (C ,U ,Sangho )Maldiva (C ,U ,Malagasy )Maldivai (C ,U ,Lithuanian )Maldivak (C ,U ,Basque )Maldivane (C ,U ,Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Maldivas - ދިވެހި (C ,U ,Galician )Maldive (C ,U ,Romanian )Maldive Italian )Maldiven (C ,U ,Dutch )Maldiven Luxembourgish )Maldiven Western Frisian )Maldivene (C ,U ,Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Maldivene Norwegian (Bokmål) )Maldivene Norwegian )Maldiverna (C ,U ,Swedish )Maldiverne (C ,U ,Danish )Maldivesa (C ,U ,Igbo )maldivesdukɔ (C ,U ,Ewe )Maldivet (C ,U ,Albanian )Maldíveyjar (C ,U ,Icelandic )Maldivez (C ,U ,Breton )Maldivi (C ,U ,Bambara )Maldivi Croatian )Maldivi Bosnian )Maldivi Slovene )Maldivi Swahili (generic) )Maldivi Ido )Maldīvija (C ,U ,Latvian )Maldivit (C ,U ,Albanian )Maldivler (C ,U ,Turkish )Maldivoj (C ,U ,Esperanto )Maldív-szigetek (C ,U ,Magyar (Hungarian) )Maldivuäns (C ,U ,Volapük )Maldivuoyggjarnar (C ,U ,Faroese )Maldivy (C ,U ,Slovak )Maldivys (C ,U ,Cornish )Maldyvai (C ,U ,Lithuanian )Malediivit (C ,U ,Finnish )Malediivvat (C ,U ,Northern Sami )Maledive (C ,U ,Afrikaans )Maledive Limburgan )Maledivy (C ,U ,Czech )Malediwy (C ,U ,Polish )Man-đi-vơ (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Modivu (C ,U ,Kikuyu )Modivu Swahili (generic) )Moludave (C ,U ,Rundi )Na Maildiví (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Orílẹ́ède Maladifi (C ,U ,Yoruba )Republic of the Maldive Islands (C ,U )Малдиви (C ,U ,Serbian )Малдиви Macedonian )Малдиви Bulgarian )མཱལ་ཌིབས (C ,U ,Dzongkha )मालदीव (C ,U ,Marathi )मालदीव Hindi )मालदीव Kashmiri )மாலத்தீவு (C ,U ,Tamil )مالديف (C ,U ,Arabic )モルディブ (C ,U ,Japanese )მალდივის კუნძულები (C ,U ,Georgian )मालाद्वीपः (C ,U ,Sanskrit )มัลดีฟส์ (C ,U ,Thai )ދިވެހި ރާއްޖެ (C ,U ,Maldivian (Divehi) )ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ (C ,U ,Maldivian (Divehi) )جزر المالديف (C ,U ,Arabic )مالدیو (C ,U ,Urdu )مالدیو Persian-Farsi )ማልዲቭስ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ማልዲቭስ Amharic )మాల్దీవులు (C ,U ,Telugu )Мальдіви (C ,U ,Ukrainian )مالديپ (C ,U ,Pashto )몰디브 (C ,U ,Korean )מלדיבים (C ,U ,Hebrew )モルジブ (C ,U ,Japanese )মালদ্বীপ (C ,U ,Bengali )Մալդիվներ (C ,U ,Armenian )ประเทศมัลดีฟส์ (C ,U ,Thai )Μαλδίβες (C ,U ,Greek )மாலைத்தீவுகள் (C ,U ,Tamil )האיים המלדיביים (C ,U ,Hebrew )مالدىۋ ئاراللىرى (C ,U ,Uyghur )මාල දිවයින (C ,U ,Sinhala )جزر الملديف (C ,U ,Arabic )മാലിദ്വീപ് (C ,U ,Malayalam )मालदीव्ज (C ,U ,Marathi )ମାଳଦ୍ବୀପ (C ,U ,Odia )माल्दिभ्स (C ,U ,Nepali )Мальдивские о-ва (C ,U ,Russian )માલદિવ્સ (C ,U ,Gujarati )ಮಾಲ್ಡಿವ್ಸ್ (C ,U ,Kannada )مالدیڤ (C ,U ,Kurdish )မော်လဒိုက် (C ,U ,Burmese )མལ་དྭིབ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )Мальдыўскія Астравы (C ,U ,Belarusian )Maldive Islands (H ,V )
Hierarchical Position:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
Additional Parents:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
........ India (subcontinent) (P )
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ gained independence 1965
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
republic (C ) ............ proclaimed 1968
island nation (C )
protectorate (H ) ............ British, 1887-1965
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Male .................. (World, Asia, Dhivehi Raajje, Maale) [1083014]
member of .... Commonwealth of Nations ................ (World) [7005615] ................ joined association in 1982
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1965
Sources and Contributors:
Republic of the Maldive Islands.......... [VP ] ..................................................... GeoNames online [n.d.] 1282028
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