Maldives
Julie Sandoval
Capital city,=offical name is the Republic Of Maldives
Capital City=Male
Population=393988
as of 2014
Maldives Phisacal Feater
maldives under water resturant
History
- The Maldives was know to cran seafares and many have been in habition as earely as 2000B.C.
- Acording to legend marccon traveld Abul Barakal Yauf al-Babari,drove out a deomon by reading from the Qur'an
- By the 18600's,Indiana merchants from bombay had settled in the Maldives and assumend control of its forgein traid.
- Tourisoum was introuduced in 1972 and has become the main stay of the economy.
People and Places
- Maldivesisain archipeligo of opproximatly 1,190 tiny islands
- The islands Tola land area is about the size of malta and almost twice the size of washington D.C
- Maldives men usally wear T-shirt with shorts,carval trousers,ora songs.
- Some women cover theur hair with scarf to emenstrate the commentment to Islam
Life Style
- On local islandes men arrenged aged primary in small scale fishing while women responsible for chilren rering and house hold duties
- They conider adults at age 21
- The 2004 sun amides trayed or damaged many house built with tradtion materials such as floral andceent.
- When the child is seven days old, her or she is formally given a name.
Society
- The Maldives economy is very heavely dependent on tourism more than than 5000,000 tourist visit the nation.
- Many maldives teenagers choose to work in order to support their family.
- Family to cover main costs the lassmia blood conditions requeriy regular lafujoys is a sensos problem.
- The country is home to a major fish canning facillity.
Three intresting facts
- The size of Malta and almost twice the size of Washington D.C.
- When asking questions Maldivians often shake air uptured hand from side to side.
- Men smoke cigarette in public but it is considerd in apporopite for women
Credit
my resorcers
Maldives." CultureGrams Online Edition. ProQuest, 2014. Web. 31 Mar 2014.