Seychelles
Seychelles (officially Republic of Seychelles) is a country in Eastern Africa, with its capital at Victoria, and is home to roughly 121.4K people.
Its official languages are Seychellois Creole, English, French; the currency in circulation is Seychellois rupee (₨); people from here are called Seychellois.
- »Seychelles has the smallest population of any African state.
- »The coco de mer palm produces the largest seed of any plant.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 64% of the area, plus four further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Seychelles shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Somalia (1,508 km), Comoros (1,543 km) and Mauritius (1,750 km), measured centre to centre.
Victoria is one of the smallest capital cities in the world and sits beneath steep granite peaks on Mahé.
258 km² (100 sq mi), 190th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Population 121,354, 182nd of 198 on file. That averages 470 per km² (1,218 per sq mi).
Five rays radiating from the lower hoist, a dynamic design adopted in 1996, standing for a young country moving into the future.