The islands where people actually live
Around a thousand islands make up the Maldives; fewer than two hundred are inhabited, and only some of those have guesthouses. These are the ones worth knowing about — each with its own character, its own way in, and its own reason to go.
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Photo · Lucie Mohelnikova (other way holiday) / Google Baa Atoll
Fehendhoo
One hundred and ninety-eight people live on Fehendhoo. That makes it the smallest inhabited island covered here — smaller than…
198 residentsBikini beach
Photo · AROUND THE WORLD / Google Baa Atoll
Fulhadhoo
Three hundred and forty-one people live on Fulhadhoo, on a long sandbank at the southern edge of Baa. It is one of three small…
341 residentsBikini beach
Photo · Petra Caganova / Google Baa Atoll
Goidhoo
Goidhoo has just under six hundred residents and shares a reef with Fulhadhoo and Fehendhoo in the south of Baa Atoll. Of the…
583 residentsBikini beach