Maldives

Maldives

Maldives ranks 203rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Papua New Guinea, Palau, and Marshall Islands. Memorable people born in present day Maldives include Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, and Ibrahim Nasir. Memorable people who died in Maldives include . Maldives has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many .

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is named after the main island and capital, Malé. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres from the Asian continent's mainland. The Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south. Read more on Wikipedia