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The very mention of the country Maldives conjures images of remote, palmfringed islands with white beaches, turquoise lagoons, submarine coral gardens and a breathtaking diversity of sea life. The Maldivian atolls and islands are located in the south-west of Sri Lanka and India covering an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of about 859,000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean. Of the 1,190 islands that make up the country, only 194 are inhabited by 298,968 people (2006 census). More than 103,693 people live in Male, the capital city of 2 square kilometers, making it among the most densely populated places in the world. The rest of the population is scattered among several of the smaller islands.
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Noordeen, M. (2011). Maldives. In: Majumdar, S. (eds) Emerging Challenges and Trends in TVET in the Asia-Pacific Region. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-391-4_12
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