MALDIVES
(Republic Maldives)

Capital: Male
Currency: Maldivian rufiyaa (MVR)
Population: 286 400 people
GDP (PPS): 8 bln. dollars of the USA (2018)
Area: 298 sq.km.
Visa: It Tebutsya

ABOUT THE COUNTRY

Maldives, officially are called the Republic Maldives and is the sovereign state of the Southern Asia located in the Indian Ocean located in the Arabian Sea. It is to the southwest from Sri Lanka and India. Maldives consist of 1 192 coral islands grouped in a double chain from 26 atolls along the direction the North-South which stretch approximately for 90 000 square kilometers (35 000 quarter. Miles) that does this one of the most scattered countries of the world. It is between latitudes 1 ° S and 8 °C. Sh.I longitudes 72 ° and 74 ° century. Atolls consist of live coral reeves and sandy bars located at top of the diving ridge 960 kilometers long (600 miles) which sharply rises from depths of the Indian Ocean and passes from the North on the South.

CLIMATE

On Maldives tropical monsoonal climate according to climatic classification Kyupen to which a large number of land of the Southern Asia extends in the north. Presence of this land calls different heating of sushi and water. These factors called a stream of damp air from the Indian Ocean over the Southern Asia therefore a southwest monsoon. Two seasons dominate on Maldives: the dry season connected with a winter northeast monsoon and a rainy season which brings strong winds and storms.

Transition from a dry northeast monsoon to a damp southwest monsoon takes place in April and May. During this period southwest winds promote formation of a southwest monsoon which reaches Maldives at the beginning of June and lasts until the end of August. Nevertheless, weather conditions of the Maldives not always correspond to monsoonal patterns of the Southern Asia. The annual amount of precipitation averages 254 centimeters (100 inches) in the north and 381 centimeters (150 inches) in the south.

TOURISM

Maldives remained generally unknown to tourists prior to the beginning of the 1970th years. Only 185 islands are the house for 300 000 inhabitants. Other islands are used only in economic targets among which tourism and agriculture prevail. 28% of GDP and more than 60% of currency receipts of the Maldives are the share of tourism. More than 90% of the state tax revenues are the share of the import duties and taxes connected with tourism.

Development of tourism promoted the general growth of national economy. It created direct and indirect opportunities of employment and income generation in other allied industries. The first tourist resorts were open in 1972 with the island Bandos and the village Kurumba (the present name - Kurumba Maldives) which turned economy of the Maldives. Resort island of Landaa-Zhiravaru coral reeves and unprecedented fishes. (Baa-atoll).