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Grand Anse beach scenery on the Seychelles island of La Digue
To enjoy the spectacular Grand Anse beach scenery on the Seychelles island of La Digue, you'll have to dig deep into your pockets. Seychelles is certainly not a low-budget destination.
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About Seychelles


Flag of Seychelles
The map shows the Inner Islands of Seychelles, a remote island nation in the western Indian Ocean.
The archipelago covers a vast area between Africa and Asia. The main islands are located 500 km south of the equator and about 1,700 km east of Kenya's coast, northeast of Madagascar between the Somali Basin in the northwest and the Mascarene Basin in the southeast, two big oceanic basins in the western Indian Ocean.

Seychelles consists of 115+ islands spread over an area of more than 1 million km². The country's total land area of 444 km² is as big as Andorra, or 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC.

Seychelles has the smallest population of all sovereign African countries, with only 98,000 inhabitants (in 2021). The capital and largest city is Victoria on Mahé, the largest island. Spoken languages are Seychellois Creole 90%, English and French (all official).


Map of Seychelles

Map of Seychelles (Inner Islands)
Map of Seychelles, Mahé Group

The map shows the archipelago of the Seychelles Inner Islands, the capital Victoria, major towns, main roads, ferry services and major airports.

You are free to use the above map for educational and similar purposes; if publishing, please credit Nations Online Project as the source.


More about Seychelles


On January 19, 1609, the British ship Ascension, part of a British East India Company expedition, reached the main island group of the Seychelles. The crew mistakenly thought they were on the Amirantes. Provisions and drinking water were supplemented, various islands were visited, and maps were made.
It took another 133 years before the Seychelles came back into the focus of the Europeans. In 1742, the governor of the then French colony of Mauritius, Bertrand Mahé de La Bourdonnais, also sent an expedition there. The main island Mahé received its name in his honor. Finally, a second French expedition in 1756 formally took possession of the archipelago for France.


Seychelles Inner Islands

Aldabra Islands, the largest atoll in the Indian Ocean, Seychelles
Aerial view of the Aldabra Islands, an atoll consisting of four large coral islands enclosing a shallow lagoon; the islands are surrounded by a coral reef.
The largest atoll in the Indian Ocean is part of Seychelles' Outer Islands. The Aldabra Atoll is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Due to the remoteness of the atoll, Aldabra is protected from human influence and is home to about 152,000 giant tortoises.

Photo: Simisa

The main islands, the Seychelles Inner Islands, also known as the Mahé group, consist of 45 islands. The largest are Mahé, Praslin, La Digue and Silhouette Island.

The islands are the tips of the Seychelles Microcontinent rising out of the water.
They are surrounded by coral reefs and have narrow coastlines and ranges of hills in the interior that rise up to 900 meters.

Morne Seychellois, at 905 m (2,969 ft), is the highest peak of the archipelago.

The Mahé group lies about 1,000 km northeast of the northern tip of Madagascar and 1,800 km east of Mombasa (Kenya).


Seychelles Outer Islands

The Seychelles Outer Islands are a chain of coral atolls, such as the Amirante and Alphonse Islands, mostly uninhabited.

In 2008, the Islands Development Company (IDC) prepared a program called 1 hotel 1 island.
Each island in the group should be leased to a hotel, which will, in turn, build residential homes and facilities on those islands.


Flora and Fauna
The Seychelles are the oldest oceanic islands that exist on earth. Isolated for 75 million years, Seychelles is home to a distinctive flora and fauna, comparable only in uniqueness to the Galapagos Islands or Madagascar. The archipelago is known for tropical fruits and plants, such as the Coco de Mer palm trees, giant turtles, tree frogs like Gardiner's frog, one of the smallest frogs in the world, birds, such as the Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher, sharks like the Blacktip, Silvertip and Grey Reef Sharks. Rare and native animals include the Seychelles sheath-tailed bats, the Magpie robin, and the Seychelles White-eyed bird and the Blue Pigeon.


The map shows the location of the following islands and islets:

Aride, Conception, Curieuse, Felicite, Fregate Island, Ile au Cerf, Ile du Nord, La Digue, Mahé, Marianne, Praslin, Saint-Anne Island, Silhouette Island and Therese.


 

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