Maldives: Top Photos

A thousand coral atolls barely above the Indian Ocean's surface

Aerial shot of a small island on a coral reef in the Maldives
What 115 square miles of total land area looks like when it's scattered across 35,000 square miles of ocean — the math that makes the Maldives one of the most dispersed countries on Earth. © Dr. Ondřej Havelka (cestovatel), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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