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Maldives

1. CIA World Factbook: Maldives
2. Ethnologue Language Database: Maldives
3. Library of Congress Country Studies: Maldives
4. Maldives Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
5. Maps of the Indian Ocean
6. Political Resources on the Net: Maldives
7. Social Indicators: Less Populous Countries
8. World Travel Guide: Maldives

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CIA World Factbook: Maldives

Basic reference information about the Maldives, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
     Author: CIA
     Subjects: maldives
     DeweyClass: 915.495
     Resource type: document

Ethnologue Language Database: Maldives

A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in the Maldives, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: maldives
     DeweyClass: 409.5495
     Resource type: document

Library of Congress Country Studies: Maldives

Detailed handbook describing the history of the Maldives and analysing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Particular attention is given to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, common interests and the issues on which they are divided, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: maldives
     DeweyClass: 954.95
     Resource type: documents

Maldives Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006

Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Maldives. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
     Author: US Department of State
     Subjects: maldives
     DeweyClass: 323.5495
     Resource type: document

Maps of the Indian Ocean

Set of maps taken from the Indian Ocean Atlas published by the CIA, covering the Arabian Sea Islands, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India), Christmas Island (Australia) Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia), Comoros, the Maldives, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Zanzibar.
     Author: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: australian geography, comoros, madagascar, maldives, maps of asia, mauritius, seychelles, sri lanka, tanzania
     DeweyClass: 912.1824
     Resource type: map collection

Political Resources on the Net: Maldives

Listing of political resources relevant to the Maldives, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
     Author: Torre Argentina Societa di Servizi - Agora telematica Division
     Subjects: maldives
     DeweyClass: 320.95495
     Resource type: documents, index

Social Indicators: Less Populous Countries

Part of the UNICEF Progress of Nations report, giving a summary of the social indicators and relative standing of countries with populations of less than one million. The indicators used to construct the league table include access to sanitation; per cent reduction in under-5 mortality, and women at top levels of government.
     Author: UNICEF
     Subjects: antigua and barbuda, bahamas, bahrain, barbados, belize, brunei, cape verde, comoros, cyprus, djibouti, dominica, equatorial guinea, fiji, grenada, guyana, iceland, kiribati, luxembourg, maldives, malta, marshall islands, micronesia, palau, qatar, saint kitts nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent, samoa, sao tome and principe, seychelles, solomon islands, suriname, swaziland, tonga, tuvalu, vanuatu
     DeweyClass: 338.9
     Resource type: reference document

World Travel Guide: Maldives

Basic reference information about the Maldives, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
     Author: Columbus Press
     Subjects: maldives
     DeweyClass: 915.495
     Resource type: documents