About Maldives

General

The Maldives is at a strategic geographical location in the heart of the Indian Ocean and at the crossroads between the East and the West.

Maldives has tremendous potential to become the point where East meets West, by connecting to the Indian Ocean maritime transport routes and capitalizing on the growing transhipment traffic. Maldives has access to over 30 major cities of the world within 5 hours of flight time.

For much of the last three decades, Maldives has been a development success story. 

With more territorial sea than land, marine resources have played a vital role in shaping the contours of economic development, with nature-based tourism and fishing being the main drivers for growth.

Maldives has enjoyed a long period of robust economic growth following the rapid growth of its tourism and fisheries sectors. Thanks to returns from tourism, Maldives made strong gains in human development and is now an upper middle-income country.

Male’ city

Male’ is the capital city of the Maldives and the seat of the executive, legislature and judicial branches of the government of the Maldives. Male’ is also the financial and commercial capital of the country. Accordingly, major government offices, banks and businesses are based in Male’.

Administratively neighbouring islands of Villingili and Hulhumale’ are considered as constituencies of Male’ City. Hulhumale’ is an artificially reclaimed island.

Useful links to Government’s websites