Maldives

Maldives

Maldives ranks 186th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Timor-Leste, Botswana, and Saint Lucia. Memorable people born in present day Maldives include Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Abdulla Yameen, and Mohammed Waheed Hassan. Memorable people who died in Maldives include Muhammad Fareed Didi. Maldives has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians.

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an archipelagic country in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres from the Asian continent's mainland. The Maldives' chain of 26 atolls stretches across the equator from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south. Read more on Wikipedia