The Republic of Malpes (formerly known as the Maldives Islands), abbreviated as "Malpes", is an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean. It is about 600 km from southern India and about 750 km from southwestern Sri Lanka. 26 groups of natural atolls and 1,192 coral islands are distributed in an area of 90,000 square kilometers, of which about 200 islands are inhabited. It has a land area of 298 square kilometers and a population of 557,000 (2021).
1. The Maldives may be a representative of great fame and small territory. Because in Asia, the Maldives is synonymous with holiday living. However, its land area of 298 square kilometers is less than one-third of the area of mainland Hong Kong (1106 square kilometers), making it the smallest country in Asia. Most of the islands in the Maldives are actually part of an underwater volcanic mountain range, and the part that leaks out of the sea can be seen as a small lotus showing its sharp corners.
2. The Maldives, the most desirable thing is to sunbathe on the white and delicate beach. These beaches are inextricably linked to the parrotfish of the Maldives. Parrotfish feed on coral, swallowing it and crushing it to absorb its nutrients while excreting indigestible calcium particles, which are the main components of fine white sand. In layman's terms, the white and delicate beach was built by parrotfish with dung.
3. Many islands are being flooded by the sea. Maldives is one of the world's most famous island countries, with about 1192 coral islands in the country; Of those, just over 200 are inhabited. Because other islands cannot be developed and inhabited. Eighty percent of the Maldives' land is less than 1 metre above sea level, and the highest point in the country is only 2.4 metres, with an average elevation of 1.2 metres. At the current rate of sea level rise, at 2 centimetres per year, within 60 years, the Maldives will cease to exist. Faced with this situation, the Maldivian government has invested a lot of financial and material resources to build an artificial island, which can accommodate a population of 500,000.
4. Maldives has developed tourism, with a per capita GDP of $10,000, comparable to China, and the richest country in South Asia.
5. The Maldives is a honeymoon destination for newlyweds all over the world. But as you might not imagine, it also has the highest divorce rate in the world. According to United Nations statistics, almost every Maldivian woman in her 20s has been married once, and on average, almost every 30-year-old Maldivian woman has been divorced three times. This data, which set a Guinness World Record, can't help but be stunned! Maldivians want a divorce, and the man only needs to say the word "talaq" and the divorce will take effect. It is said that if a man says "tarak" three times, then it is a permanent divorce!
6. Maldives travel, the driver's license is invalid, because there are islands all over the place, travel all rely on the waves. The most popular are the diving certificate, surfing qualification and sailing sailing qualification certificate.
7. Maldivian nationals are distributed on more than 200 islands, which is not convenient for unified teaching. Since 1978, with the help of UNESCO, the adult literacy rate in the Maldives is now 98%. 14% of adults in the United States are still illiterate.
8) The magic is that educated Maldivians believe in the power of black and white magic. Coconuts are often found in black magic spells and practices. It sounds like a joke... In September 2013, Maldivian police arrested a coconut for being suspicious during the presidential election. The location where the coconuts were captured was in front of a polling station, where police suspect someone was placing coconuts in an attempt to rig the election. The police specially called for a white magician, but the magician did not find any threat or curse, and Coconut was acquitted.
9. The exchanges between the Maldives and China can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty. Wang Dayuan, a navigator of the Yuan Dynasty, sailed twice in his life and wrote "Island Yi Zhiluo". In the book, the Maldives is now called "Mountain Country". There was no king at the time, just a fishing port, producing goods such as coconut cords, dried fish, and shells; Trading with Southeast Asian merchants, a shipload of shells was exchanged for rice. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the name "Mountain Country" was still used.
10. Maldivian men can marry four wives according to the regulations, because there are more women than men here, but most ordinary people only have one wife, the cost of living is too high, and it is difficult to marry one.
11. The capital Male covers an area of only 1.96 square kilometers, but the population is as high as 250,000, accounting for almost 45% of the entire country's population, Male has created two world's best: is the world's smallest capital, but also the world's most crowded capital, an average of 125,000 people per square kilometer, which is 6 times the population density of Macao in the mainland, you know, Macau is the most densely populated place in the mainland, now you can imagine how crowded the island of Malé is.
12. There are two straits in the south of the Maldives that are traffic arteries, one is the Equatorial Strait and the other is the one-and-a-half strait, these two straits are named, and you can tell at a glance what is going on.
13. The China-Malaysia Friendship Bridge, the first modern bridge in the Maldives, was Chinese and opened to traffic in August 2018, connecting the capital Malé, Airport Island and Hulhumale Island, with a total length of 2 kilometers.
14. Maldivians earn an average of about 4,000 yuan a month, but the house price is comparable to that of first-tier cities in the mainland, and the cost of living in the Maldives is still quite high.
15, Maldives is an island country, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest mainland coastal country Sri Lanka, most of the daily necessities need to be imported, transported to the Maldives by sea, some high-end resort island hotels even need to fly ingredients from Europe to Male Airport, and then use their own transport ships to transport to the island, it can be imagined that these freight costs are very expensive.
16. The islands of the Maldives can be bought and sold privately, and you can become the owner of the island for about 6 million yuan.
17.The Maldives has no army, no air force, no navy, no police and no maritime patrols, only a paramilitary national security guard, renamed the "Maldives Defence Force" in 2006.
18. As a tropical island country, Maldivian women must wear long skirts to travel, and men cannot wear shorts, because the Maldives is a YSL country.
19. There is only one university in the Maldives, that is, the National University of Maldives, if they want to study in the country, they have no choice, if they do not want to study in their own country's university, they can only go to India or Sri Lanka next door.
20. There is an artificial island in the Maldives, called Slavus, 6.8 kilometers away, the capital Malé, about 45 minutes by flight. The island was established in 1992 to dispose of garbage by the Madai government, which was still small and buried. But as more and more people come to Madai to travel, the garbage naturally increases, and 20 years have passed, and the small pit where the garbage was originally buried has finally become a real island. According to statistics, the island receives 330 tons of garbage a day, and with each passing day, it increases by one cubic meter. This speed kept the Slavs in a state of supersaturation all day.
Garbage Island Slavus
21. Don't think that you can let go of your self-love freedom when you go to the beach, it is illegal to swim naked in the Maldives.
22. Maldivian officials made it clear that fishing is prohibited, and violators are fined $5,000.
23. We Chinese are the main consumer groups in the Maldives. One third of the people who travel to the Maldives every year are our Chinese! We Chinese tourists can also be said to have a direct impact on the GDP of the Maldives.
24, there is a performance artist named He Liping has a street art, "there is sand in the heart, everywhere is the Maldives", this name was actually taken by netizens, a few years ago, it was also popular on the Internet, He Liping was later invited to the Maldives. (A little spicy eye no)