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FOUR SEASONS MALDIVES
The Republic of Maldives is made up of a double string of 1,190 coral islands to the southwest of Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean. Stretching north to south to a point just south of the equator, the archipelago is 130 kilometres (81 miles) wide at its widest point and 820 kilometres (510 miles) long. It is the flattest land in the world, with the highest natural point less than 2.4 metres (8 feet) above sea level.
Grouped into 26 atolls – ring-shaped coral formations, which provide a natural defence against wind and wave, enclosing a lagoon – Maldives covers a total area of 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 square miles), only 0.5% of which is land. Not surprisingly, this aquatic nation is considered one of the top 10 diving spots in the world. With only 200 inhabited islands and an additional 98 islands developed exclusively as tourist resorts, tourism is the dominant support for the economy. Malé, the capital of the Republic of Maldives, is an island 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) long and 1 kilometre (0.6 mile) wide. Malé is clean and quaint, with markets, mosques and a maze of small streets that about 65,000 people call home. Thirty minutes on a seaplane northwest from Malé, visitors are transported into the idyllic world of Four Seasons Resort Maldives on the enchanting island of Landaa Giraavaru.
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