Map of Maldives

Maldives is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 3.2° N, 73.0° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Maldives is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Maldives is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Maldives covers about 300 km² (116 sq mi). That makes it the 189th-largest country in the world by area and the smallest country in Asia by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 515,132, the 169th-largest in the world and the 48th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Maldives has an average population density of about 1,717 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 48th by population and 49th by area.

The seat of government is Malé, and the official currency is the Maldivian rufiyaa (MVR, .ރ), and the main official language is Maldivian. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+05:00.

Maldives carries the ISO country codes MV and MDV, dials on the international calling code +960 and uses the .mv internet domain.

Maldives has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 3.2° N, 73.0° E places it about 361 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Asia.

The interactive map above is centred on 3.2° N, 73.0° E and opens at zoom level 10, framing Maldives within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Malé. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Maldives lies about 361 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Maldives keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Maldivian rufiyaa (MVR, .ރ).

The official language is Maldivian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +960 and websites commonly use the .mv internet domain.

In short, Maldives is an island nation in Asia, with no land borders. Its capital is Malé. Maldives has a population of about 515,132 and covers around 300 km² (116 sq mi), ranking it 169th in the world by population and 189th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Maldives.

The flag of Maldives has a red field, at the center of which is a large green rectangle bearing a fly-side facing white crescent.

The flag of Maldives is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.