The Maldives is an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean, consisting of 26 groups of natural atolls, 1,192 coral islands distributed in a sea area of 90,000 square kilometers, the capital of Malé, and the population of 5570 thousand.
1. The Maldives implements a policy of polygamy, and it is also the country with the highest divorce rate in the world, of course, the marriage rate is also ridiculously high, many women have three or four marriages in their twenties, which is very common here.
2. The smallest country in Asia is the Maldives, with a total land area of about 298 square kilometers, followed by Singapore, with a total area of 7286 square kilometers, and the third is Bahrain, with a total area of almost 800 square kilometers.
3. This is a tropical island country, but women need to wear long skirts that cover their bodies when they go out, and men can't wear shorts, because this is a Muslim country.
4. The Maldives does not have an army, navy, air force, police and maritime patrols, but only a paramilitary guard, which serves as the army, police, maritime patrol and other multiple tasks, with the characteristics of "one army with multiple purposes".
5. The Maldives is one of the lowest countries in the world, with an average altitude of 12 meters. The biggest problem here is that as global warming intensifies, rising sea levels will shrink or even disappear the country. It is estimated that in a hundred years, it will no longer be habitable.
6. The Maldives was known as the "country of slipping mountains" or "slipping oceans" in ancient times, and Zheng He came to this country twice in the West.
7. In the past, the Maldives was one of the least developed countries in the world, but with the development of tourism, it has become the country with the highest per capita GDP in South Asia.
8. The islands of the Maldives can be bought and sold privately, there are 1,192 coral islands, of which only 202 small islands are inhabited, and if you want to become the owner, it will cost about 500,600,000 yuan.
9. Education in the Maldives is free from preschool to high school graduation, and the literacy rate here is 98%, which is very high.
10. In ancient times, the main output of the Maldives was coconut and fish, which were their staple food, and there was another category of things that were shells, and they could be used as money like **. At that time, the Maldives was the most important source of currency shells in the Indian Ocean, and it could be said to be the "best bank" in the Indian Ocean.
11. The materials in the Maldives are basically imported, it can be seen that the price is scary, potatoes are 50 yuan a catty, winter melon is 15 yuan a catty, even Coke is 40 yuan a bottle, and it costs hundreds of yuan to play a project, so you have to put money in your trouser pocket when you come here.
12. It is not allowed to fish or pick corals on the island without permission, and those who violate it will be fined.
13. The Maldives is very small, but there are not a few people, and there are so many tourists every year, so a lot of garbage is generated, and the cost of transporting these garbage out is too high, so an island is specially opened up to store garbage. This small island is called "Slafahu".
14. Local residents in the Maldives are forbidden to drink alcohol and eat pork. Islam is professarily, and all residents must be Muslims. If a local person quits the religion, he will automatically lose his citizenship rights, and there will be a punishment for converting to ** religion. However, foreign tourists can drink alcohol at the hotel or at the beach.
15. The world's first undersea villa is Conrad Renghry Island Resort.
16. The Maldives is located near the equator, there are no four seasons throughout the year, and the average annual temperature is 28 degrees. It is divided into rainy season and dry season, of which May and November are the rainy season every year, and December and April of the following year are the dry season.
17. There are many islands here, but there is no road or railway between the islands, only by boat, plane or swimming.
18. The islands of the Maldives are very small, and they are all made of insect corpses and feces. Coral islands, for example, are islands formed by the accumulation of the remains of marine organisms and polyps, which eventually emerge from the water. However, polyps grow very slowly, so each coral island takes a long time to form. There are 1,192 coral islands here.
19. The capital of the Maldives is Malé, and the international airport here is not built in the capital, but Velana International Airport is built on the adjacent island of Coral Island.
20. In the 3rd century B.C., the Maldives was first immigrated here by Sri Lanka and India, and the first king was established by the son of King Kalinga of India, establishing the "Edita Dynasty" of the Maldives, also known as the "Sun Dynasty".
21. It was originally a Buddhist belief in Buddhism, and many Buddhist temples were built. In the 12th century, the Maldives began to believe in Islam, and in the 16th century, the Portuguese colonized and occupied it, and they wanted to make people believe in ** religion and ended up bleeding, so now anyone who quits and converts to ** religion will have to go to jail.
22. There was an underwater cabinet meeting here, and in 2009, ** and 13 *** sat at the table under the water with underwater breathing apparatus strapped to the meeting.
23. Male is the only capital in the world where there are no asphalt roads, all of which are paved with Dutch bricks, and it is also the smallest capital in the world, and it is also the most congested capital in the world, which is 6 times the population density of Macao, China, which is quite crowded.
24. The China-Malaysia Friendship Bridge is a Male-Airport Island cross-sea bridge, which was built by the Chinese and officially opened in 2018.
25. It is illegal to swim naked in the Maldives, and there are no bars and *** here
26. There is only one university in the Maldives, that is, the Maldives National University, if you want to study in other universities, you can only go abroad, and generally go to neighboring India or Sri Lanka.
27. The earliest houses in the Maldives were built of coral.
28. The white sand beaches of the Maldives are built from the droppings of colorful parrotfish.
29. Saturday and Sunday are not considered weekends here in the Maldives, but Friday and Saturday are considered weekends, so it is normal to work on Sundays.
30. The Maldives is often regarded as a honeymoon destination for many newlyweds, but it is also home to the highest divorce rate in the world.
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