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Southern Asia Group
of atolls in ​the Indian Ocean South-southwest
3 15 N, 73 00 E ​
Area
Maritime claims
Total: 298 sq km
Land: 298 sq km
Water: 0 sq km
Coastline: 644 km
​About 1.7 times the size of Washington, DC
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Contiguous zone: 24 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines

Climate
Tropical; hot, humid; dry, northeast monsoon (November to March); rainy, southwest monsoon (June to August)

Terrain
Flat, with white sandy beaches

Elevation
Highest point: 8th tee, golf course, Villingi Island 5 m
Lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
Mean elevation: 2 m

Land use
Agricultural land: 23.3% (2018 est.)
Arable land: 10% (2018 est.)
Permanent crops: 10% (2018 est.)
Permanent pasture: 3.3% (2018 est.)
Forest: 3% (2018 est.)
Other: 73.7% (2018 est.)

Natural hazards
Tsunamis; low elevation of islands makes them sensitive to sea level rise

Population ​
Population 390,669 (July 2021 est.)
​Birth rate - 15.69 births/1,000
​Growth rate -0.12% (2021 est.) 
​Death rate - 4.12 deaths/1,000  (2021 est.)

-Third of the population lives in the centrally located capital city of Male'
-Tenth in southern Addu City
-Remainder of the populace is spread over the 200 Islands
​Energy
Electrification
Population: 
100% (2020)
​Production: 402 million kWh (2016 est.)
Consumption: 373.9 million kWh (2016 est.)

Electricity - from fossil fuels
96% of total installed capacity (2016 est.) 
Country comparison to the world: 40
Installed generating capacity
278,000 kW (2016 est.)
Electricity
​from other renewable sources

10,840 bbl/day (2015 est.)
With a peak power of 532 KW for the 3 central islands
and a classic medium voltage/low voltage transformer of 25 KVa
the cross-section of the specific cables remains reasonable
​of the order of 240 mm² for losses of less than 1% outside of the problematic zones (in orange and red)
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