Most Beautiful Islands, Maldives, territorial and tourism issues

The Republic of Maldives consists of 21 atolls and four reef platforms that straddle the equator in the northern Indian Ocean. Comprising 2041 reefs and 1190 reef islands, the archipelago is globally unique in the reef structures it possesses of a submarine ridge that stretches from the islands of the Lakshadweep (Laccadives) group in the north to the Chagos archipelago in the south.

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