Seven seas (open ocean) · Southern Asia
Maldives
Wikidata gives 298 km² for Maldives, a figure that may include the sea around it. Natural Earth's outline is too coarse to measure it, so no ranking is shown.
- 109km²Area, main territory
- 436,000Population
- 0.00In Belgiums
5,000 km
- Maldives
Natural Earth draws Maldives with only 1376 points, too coarse to measure its land area (109 km²). Wikidata gives 298 km², which may include surrounding sea. Treat both figures with caution; Maldives is left out of rankings and comparisons.
Facts
| Area, main territory | 109 km²42.0 mi² |
|---|---|
| Official area | 298 km²Wikidata · 64% above our measure |
| In Belgiums | 0.00 |
| Capital | Malé |
| Population | 436,000Wikidata, 2017 |
| Density | 4,014 people per km² |
| Latitude range | 1°S to 7°N |
| In other languages | Maldivas Español · Malediven Deutsch · Maldivas Português · モルディブ 日本語 · 马尔代夫 中文 · 몰디브 한국어 |
| Continent | Seven seas (open ocean)#3 of 3 countries by area |
What the numbers say about Maldives
- Russia, the largest place listed, is 156,212× the size of Maldives.
- Maldives lies at 4°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
- Laid out flat, Maldives's main territory stretches about 25,500 km north to south and 25,500 km east to west.
- Natural Earth draws Maldives with only 1376 points, too coarse to measure its land area (109 km²). Wikidata gives 298 km², which may include surrounding sea. Treat both figures with caution; Maldives is left out of rankings and comparisons.
- Our measured 109 km² is 64% below Wikidata's official figure of 298 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.
How Maldives measures up
Maldives holds 4.3% of the land area and 24% of the people of the 3 countries listed for Seven seas (open ocean).
| Where it ranks | Figure | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Farthest north | 3.8°N | 164th of 212 |
| Compared with | Its area | Maldives is |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 30,700 km² | 1 in 282 its size |
| United Kingdom | 244,000 km² | 1 in 2,243 its size |
| Germany | 358,000 km² | 1 in 3,290 its size |
| Japan | 374,000 km² | 1 in 3,436 its size |
| France | 548,000 km² | 1 in 5,040 its size |
| India | 3,151,000 km² | 1 in 28,986 its size |
| Brazil | 8,473,000 km² | 1 in 77,945 its size |
| United States | 9,447,000 km² | 1 in 86,912 its size |
| Russia | 16,980,000 km² | 1 in 156,212 its size |
Where Maldives sits
- Maldives's centre lies at 3.8°N, 73.3°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 430 km from the equator.
- It straddles the equator, spanning 1°S to 7°N.
Closest neighbours, by distance between centres
On the same latitude, elsewhere in the world
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 - Countries, public domain
- Boundary
- De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
- Area
- Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded
- Official figures
- Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11
- Population
- Wikidata, 2017; covers the whole country, overseas territory included
- Data built
- 2026-11-11