What the records say
- When
- 1965
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Maldives
- Coordinates
- 4.17° N, 73.51° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 98000
- Area km2
- 298
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Maldives
Island country in South Asia
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, near the southeastern boundary of the Arabian Sea. The Maldives is located southwest of India and Sri Lanka, about 750 kilometres from the Asian continent's mainland.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation