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Bleached Corals?[edit]

Could somebody please place a picture of the bleached versus the still alive corals? This might help to understqnd the process. Thanks!

Maldivian Culture[edit]

Any Maldivian here? Please add more about Maldivian Culture. Most of the information under Culture is irrelevant. Please add more!

Hello! Sources relating to Maldivian Culture are mainly in Dhivehi, which has not yet been officially translated. I have doubts about how to cite those sources, as some of them are physical sources. Lamaaya (talk) 16:41, 8 October 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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population size[edit]

Is the higher figure on https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/maldives/#people-and-society unreliable? --Espoo (talk) 15:41, 8 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

On the contrary, that document gives a much lower figure (390,669) than everyone else. That appears to be the source for the information box which I've now corrected with the figure of 557,426 which appears elsewhere in the article and is referenced from the projected figures from 2014. That is not the best figure to rely on, but I can see no data that supports a precipitate decline in the population.

There is also the peculiar graph "Demographics of the Maldives, from 2000 to 2012" which claims that the population started to decline continuously in 2010 and has been on this page and the Demographics of the Maldives page since 2013. I know little about the Maldives but this also claims to be sourced from the CIA Factbook and seems equally suspect. Since UN and local figures are wildly different, I'm inclined to delete this graph from both pages, but would ask for opinions before doing so. Chris55 (talk) 20:40, 11 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This document from the Maldives Bureau of Statistics published by the UNFPA would seem to explain the discrepancy. It states the resident Maldavians numbered 339,761 in 2014 and projected 379,270 in 2020, but also says there were 97,774 resident foreigners in 2014, rising to 178,156 in 2020. It seems therefore the CIA figures are ignoring resident foreigners although this is not the normal practice. The lower figures (and graph) should therefore be removed. Chris55 (talk) 21:55, 11 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

First sentence "in the arabian sea" is wrong, in my opinion[edit]

I was quite surprised to read the first sentence, according to which the Maldives are situated "IN the Arabian Sea". According to the article Arabian Sea, it is limited to the east by India, which is in accordance with the map (see right). However, the Maldives (north end) are located at least about 100 km (see Google Maps) south of the southern end of India. Clearly, the Maldives are situated way south of the Arabian Sea, according to the written description of WP-AS and as well regarding the map. Shouldn't this be changed? I am, of course, open to any counter arguments, but there also seems to be no source for this statement in the article. Pittigrilli (talk) 11:08, 9 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The map is wrong on every border, if we go by the definition of the IHO (PDF, P.20). The Arabian Sea goes all the way from the Horn of Africa via the southernmost point of the Maldives, around the Laccadive Islands to the Indian cost. The border to the gulf of Oman also goes to Pakistan, not Iran.

I've replaced the map with a better one in the English and German articles, but it's still used in many other languages and should imho be retired on all of them. MaligneRange (talk) 06:06, 27 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Addition: Maybe this helps: The French WP article says (Google translation): "The western atolls have their west coast bathing the Arabian Sea while the eastern atolls entirely belong to the Laccadive Sea." ( I left the term 'bathing' though probably a translation error). Pittigrilli (talk) 11:18, 9 April 2021 (UTC) Comment: Heavily edited my post on 11:51. Pittigrilli (talk) 11:53, 9 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Further information: I played a bit on Google maps and found that the absolute northernmost island of the Maldives is about 130 km more southern than the southernmost spot of India. Pittigrilli (talk) 13:51, 9 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I changed the respective sentence some days ago. Pittigrilli (talk) 17:52, 2 May 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Is there any IHO definition? 218.250.76.126 (talk) 13:11, 12 October 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Definite article[edit]

Is the article "the" missing in some parts of the article? Most of the subtopic articles have it in their titles. 218.250.76.126 (talk) 13:13, 12 October 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Use of the definite article seems to vary, although from what I can gather from official sources (the official tourism website and the website for the President's office) using it seems to be preferred. I've gone ahead and changed all references to "Maldives" to "the Maldives" except for quotes or official names. PolarManne (talk) 17:26, 8 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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