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The Republic of Seychelles ( Creole: Repiblik Sesel) is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, some 1,600 km east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar. Other nearby island countries and territories include Mauritius and Réunion to the south, Comoros to the southwest, and the Maldives to the northeast.
Repiblik Sesel
République des Seychelles
Republic of Seychelles
( In Detail)
National motto: "Finis Coronat Opus"
( Latin: The End Crowns the Work)
Official languages Creole; English and FrenchFrench le francais la langue francaise is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese. French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people (called Francophones) as a mother to
CapitalThis article concerns places that serve as centers of government and politics. For alternative meanings see capital (disambiguation In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meanin VictoriaPort Victoria is the capital of the Seychelles and situated on the north-eastern side of the Mahe island. It was the seat of the colonial government, the governor in 1911 was Walter Edward Davidson, C. In December, 1909, the estimated population of the is
President James MichelJames Alix Michel (born 1944) has been the president of the Seychelles since April 14, 2004. He succeeded France-Albert Rene, and had previously been his vice-president since 1996. He began as a teacher, but became involved in the archipelago's booming to
AreaThis article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. Article area (geometry) is more mathematical. Area is a quantity expressing the size of a region of space. Surface area refers to the summation of the areas of the exposed sides of an objec
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 - % water
Ranked 177thHere is a list of the countries of the world in order of size . Values are given using SI (metric) units. Dependencies are shown with the main country; the total area is also given, but the list is ordered according to the areas excluding dependencies.
455 km²Square kilometre (symbol km is an SI unit of surface area. It is one of the SI derived units. 1 km² is equal to: the area of a square measuring 1 kilometre on each side 1 000 000 m² 100 hectares 0. 386 102 square miles (statute) 247. 105 381 acres Convers
Negligible
PopulationFor the use of the word population in statistics, see statistical population. In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. Populations are studied in


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Ranked 181st


80,098


176/km²
Independence
 - Date
From the United Kingdom
June 29, 1976
Currency Seychelles rupee
Time zone UTC +4
National anthem Koste Seselwa
Internet TLD .SC
Calling Code248




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