Flag of Maldives

🎨 What the flag means

The Maldives flag is a green rectangle with a red border and a white crescent moon in the middle. The red honours the bravery of the nation's heroes, the green stands for peace and prosperity, and the white crescent stands for Islam.

📊 Quick facts

👥 Population

436.3 thousand (2017)

🏙️ Capital

Malé252.8 thousand people (2021)

🗣️ Main language

Divehi

✨ 3 fun facts

1. The Maldives is the lowest-lying country in the world, with land only about 2 metres above the sea at most.
2. The Maldives is made of more than a thousand coral islands grouped into rings called atolls.
3. The Maldivian language is written in a script called Thaana, which is read from right to left.