Maldives

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 5 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Maldives. Maldives is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 175 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 69.3°E to 77.2°E and 1.4°S to 7.8°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Maldives is filled. No other country reaches this view. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Maldives. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

175 parts of Maldives in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 3.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 69.3°E–77.2°E, 1.4°S–7.8°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Maldives. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    not yet researchedNo news source from this country is in Aletheia's registry yet. Nobody has assessed the media landscape here — that is a gap in our work, not a finding about this country.

    Know a news source for Maldives? Tell us where to look.

    A person checks who runs an outlet before we describe it, so nothing you send appears here straight away — and nothing appears at all until that check is done.

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.

  3. National legislature

    People's Majlis ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Malé

    28°C / 82°FOvercastwind 24 km/h / 15 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Malé, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:55 AM · sunset 6:03 PM12h 08m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    MDVuncited
    Driving side
    leftcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Maléuncited
    Official language
    Maldivianuncited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type C (Europlug), Type G (BS 1363), Type J (SN 441011), Type K, Type Lcited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    presidency.gov.mv ↗Recorded by us, not by the source: The President's Office — in the government's own namespace, recorded 2026-08-07. We have not tested whether it loads.This is specifically the President's Office, not a multi-ministry whole-of-government portal; ministries hold their own *.gov.mv sites.cited
    Tourism board
    visitmaldives.com ↗Not a government portal.

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Maldives: the UN's 2025 estimate is 529,676 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 5.1 more a day. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    529,676 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    527,799 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 5.1 more a day (1,878 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    529,6762025
    GDP
    7,741,066,8612025
    GDP per capita
    14,6152025
    Life expectancy at birth
    81.3 years2024
    Exports
    78.2%2024
    Imports
    78.3%2024

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in English and Welsh.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    Coverage limitedWe hold no World Heritage entry for this country, but our read of the register is not known to be complete, so this is not a finding of none. 6 inscribed sites are in the register and reach no page here — the source records no country for them, so they could belong to any country. That is why an empty result anywhere cannot be read as an absence.

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 102listed as: emergency medical services
    • 118listed as: fire department
    • 119listed as: police

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    MVR

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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