My country is a coral island archipelago in the Indian Ocean near India and Srilanka...It is well known to the outside world as an island paradise...The governing system is a multi party democratic system...The current president is Dr.Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik...

The faith and intuition of all the inhabitants is Islam....The country has only one spoken language and it is Dhivehi but most are capable of speaking English and to some extent Arabic...

The ethnicity of all inhabitants is East Indian of the aryan desecent....The main industries are fisheries and tourism...

The independence day is 26 July and the gregorian calendar and islamic calendar is both observed by the people...

The Maldives have the highest growing GDP among the SAARC countires and also one of the highest literacy scores in the world...

Maldives is the lowest lying country to sea level in the world....