Scientists have named and cataloged 1.3 million species. How many more species there are left to discover is a question that has hovered like a cloud over the heads of taxonomists for two centuries.
English is commonly spoken in government. In Maldives the national and official language is Dhivehi. English and some Indian languages are also spoken in Maldives. Most languages in South Asia are closely tied to particular nations, and as a result, further divide the people from one another.
The Maldives are an archipelago of 1,190 coral islands grouped into 26 coral atolls. Only 200 islands are inhabited by local Maldivian people while only 5 islands have a population of more than 3,000. The overcrowded capital island of MalÃ© is home to 26 percent of the Maldivians. Of the remaining islands, 88 have been developed as tourist resorts and the others are uninhabited. In fact, Maldives has so much small uninhabited islands that every resort island has its own âDesert Islandâ and offers its own Desert Island trip.