Maldives

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The Maldives are a group of islands in the Indian Ocean. They are located off the southwest coast of India.

The eleven hundred islands that make up the country are on twenty-six atolls. People live in about two hundred of them.

Malé is the capital, with eighty-one thousand people.

With its highest point at little more than two metres, it is the flattest country in the world.

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