Seychelles
The Seychelles is an island nation located in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar and east of Kenya. It consists of 115 islands, of which the largest are Mahe, Praslin, and La Digue.Tap on the map to travel |
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Victoria
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Victoria is the capital of the Seychelles islands, on the island of Mahe.
Morne Seychellois National Park
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There are few tropical rainforests in the world that have been left in their original pristine…
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Mahé
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Mahé is the largest and most populous island in the Seychelles, home to 90% of the country's population and its largest airport.
Silhouette Island
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Silhouette Island lies 20 km northwest of Mahé in the Seychelles.
Outer Seychelles
The Outer Islands or Coralline Seychelles is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east.Seychelles
- Type: Country with 90,000 residents
- Description: island sovereign state off the eastern coast of Africa
- Languages: English and French
- Neighbors: Comoros, France, Madagascar, Mauritius and Tanzania
- Categories: republic, sovereign state, island country, archipelagic state and locality
- Location: East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude of centre
-4.6805° or 4° 40' 50" southLongitude of centre
55.4755° or 55° 28' 32" eastPopulation
90,000Area
455 km² (176 miles²)Capital
VictoriaCurrency
Rupee (SCR)Phone code
.scInternet domain
248OpenStreetMap ID
node 424298277OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
241170Wikidata ID
Q1042Seychelles Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Seychelles
- Abkhazian: Ареспублика Сеишелтәи Адгьылбжьахақәа
- Abkhazian: Сеишелтәи Адгьылбжьахақәа
- Afar: Seyshel Atawları
- Afrikaans: Seychelle
- Akan: Seychelles
- Akan: Seyhyɛl
- Albanian: Sejshelle
- Albanian: Sejshellet
- Amharic: ሲሸልስ
- Amharic: ሲሼልስ
- Angika: सेशेल्स
- Arabic: Seychelles
- Arabic: جمهورية سيشل
- Arabic: سيشل
- Arabic: سيشيل
- Aragonese: Seychelles
- Armenian: Սեյշելյան կղզիներ
- Armenian: Սեյշելներ
- Arpitan: Sêch·èles
- Assamese: ছিচিলিছ
- Asturian: Seixeles
- Avaric: Seycella
- Azerbaijani: Seyşel adaları
- Balinese: Seychelles
- Bambara: Seshel
- Bambara: Sesɛli
- Banjar: Seychelles
- Bashkir: Сейшел Утрауҙары
- Bashkir: Сейшель Утрауҙары
- Basque: Seychelleak
- Bavarian: Seychelln
- Belarusian: Сейшэлы
- Belarusian: Сейшэльскія Астравы
- Belarusian: Сэйшэлы
- Belarusian: Сэйшэльскія выспы
- Bengali: সিসিলি
- Bengali: সেশেলস
- Bhojpuri: सेशेल्स
- Bishnupriya: সেইশেল দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
- Bislama: Seisel
- Bosnian: Sejšeli
- Breton: Sechelez
- Bulgarian: Сейшели
- Bulgarian: Сейшелски О-ви
- Bulgarian: Сейшелски острови
- Burmese: ဆေးရှဲ
- Burmese: ဆေးရှဲနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: República de les Seychelles
- Catalan: Seychelles
- Cebuano: Seychelles
- Central Bikol: Seytsilyes
- Central Kurdish: سیشێل
- Chavacano: Seychelles
- Chechen: Сейшелан гlайреш
- Chechen: Сейшелан гӀайренаш
- Chinese: Seychelles
- Chinese: 塞席爾
- Chinese: 塞舌尔 / 塞席爾
- Chinese: 塞舌尔
- Chinese: 塞舌爾
- Chuvash: Сейшел утравĕсем
- Cornish: Seychellys
- Corsican: Sexelles
- Cree: Repiblik Sesel
- Crimean Tatar: Seyşeller
- Croatian: Sejšeli
- Czech: Seychelská republika
- Czech: Seychely
- Dagbani: Seychelles
- Danish: Seychellerne
- Dhivehi: ތޭންގަދީބު
- Dimli (individual language): Seyşeli
- Dotyali: सेसेल्स
- Dutch: SC
- Dutch: SYC
- Dutch: Seychellen
- Dzongkha: སེ་ཤཱལས
- Eastern Mari: Сейшел-влак
- Egyptian Arabic: سيشيل
- English: Republic of Seychelles
- English: SEY
- English: sc
- Esperanto: Respubliko de Sejŝeloj
- Esperanto: Sejŝeloj
- Estonian: Seiiellid
- Estonian: Seišelli Vabariik
- Estonian: Seišellid
- Ewe: Seshɛls nutome
- Extremaduran: Seychelles
- Farefare: Seychelles
- Faroese: Seyskelloyggjar
- Fiji Hindi: Seychelles
- Finnish: Seychellien tasavalta
- Finnish: Seychellit
- French: Repiblik Sesel
- French: République des Seychelles
- French: SC
- French: SEY
- French: Seychelles
- French: la République des Seychelles
- French: sc
- Fulah: Seysel
- Gagauz: Seyşeller
- Galician: Seixeles - Seychelles
- Galician: Seychelles
- Ganda: Sesere
- Ganda: Seychelles
- Georgian: სეიშელის კუნძულები
- German: Republik Seychellen
- German: Republik der Seychellen
- German: SYC
- German: Seschellen
- German: Seychellen
- German: Seyschellen
- German: Seyschellen-Inseln
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Seychelles
- Greek: Σεϋχέλλες
- Guarani: Séichele
- Guianese Creole French: Séchèl
- Gujarati: સેશેલ્સ
- Haitian: Sechèl
- Hakka Chinese: Seychelles
- Hausa: Seychelles
- Hebrew: איי סיישל
- Hebrew: סיישל
- Hindi: सेशेल्स
- Hungarian: Seychelle-szigetek
- Hungarian: Seychelle-szigeteki Köztársaság
- Hungarian: Seychelles
- Icelandic: Seychelles-eyjar
- Ido: Seycheli
- Igbo: Seychelles
- Iloko: Seychelles
- Inari Sami: Seychelleh
- Inari Sami: Seychellij täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Seychelles
- Interlingua: Seychelles
- Interlingue: Seychelles
- Irish: Na Séiséil
- Irish: na Séiséil
- Italian: Seicelle
- Italian: Seychelles
- Jamaican Creole English: Seishelz
- Japanese: セイシェル
- Japanese: セーシェル
- Japanese: セーシェル共和国
- Javanese: Sèychèlles
- Javanese: Sésèl
- Kabyle: Seychelles
- Kalmyk: Сейшел Арлин Орн
- Kannada: ಸೀಶೆಲ್ಲೆಸ್
- Kannada: ಸೆಶೆಲ್ಸ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Seyshel atawları
- Kashmiri: سیشَلِس
- Kazakh: Сейшель Аралдары
- Kazakh: Сейшель аралдары
- Khmer: សីស្ហែល
- Kikuyu: Seychelles
- Kikuyu: Shelisheli
- Kinyarwanda: Seyishele
- Kirghiz: Сейшел Аралдары
- Kirghiz: Сейшел аралдары
- Kongo: Seychell
- Korean: 세이셸
- Korean: 세이쉘
- Korean: 세이쉘공화국
- Korean: 쉐이쉘
- Kotava: Seycella
- Kurdish: Seyşel
- Ladin: Seychelles
- Lao: Seychelles
- Lao: ເຊເຊວເລສ
- Latin: Insulae Seisellenses
- Latvian: Seišelas
- Latvian: Seišelu salas
- Ligurian: Seychelles
- Limburgan: Seychelle
- Lingala: Seyshel
- Lingala: Sɛshɛlɛ
- Lingua Franca Nova: Sexeles
- Literary Chinese: 塞席爾
- Lithuanian: Seišeliai
- Livvi: Seišellit
- Lombard: Seychelles
- Low German: Seychellen
- Lower Sorbian: Seychelle
- Luba-Katanga: Seshele
- Luxembourgish: Seychellen
- Macedonian: Сејшели
- Malagasy: Seisely
- Malagasy: Seychelles
- Malagasy: Seyshela
- Malay: Seychelles
- Malay: سيچيلس
- Malayalam: സീഷെൽസ്
- Malayalam: സെയ് ഷെൽസ്
- Malayalam: സെയ്ഷെൽസ്
- Maltese: Repubblika tas-Seychelles
- Maltese: Seychelles
- Maltese: is-Seychelles
- Manipuri: ꯁꯦꯆꯦꯜꯂꯦꯁ
- Manx: Ny h-Ellanyn Heshell
- Manx: Ny h-Ellanyn Sheshell
- Maori: Heikere
- Marathi: सेशेल्स
- Mazanderani: سیشل
- Min Dong Chinese: Seychelles
- Min Nan Chinese: Sesel
- Min Nan Chinese: Seychelles
- Minangkabau: Seychelles
- Mingrelian: სეიშელიშ კოკეფი
- Moksha: Сэйшэлтне
- Mongolian: Сейшелийн арлууд
- Mongolian: ꯁꯦꯆꯦꯜꯂꯦꯁ
- Moroccan Arabic: سيشيل
- Nauru: Seychelles
- Nepali: सिशेल्स
- Nepali: सेचेलेस
- Nepali: सेसेल्स
- Newari: सिशेल्स
- North Ndebele: Seychelles
- Northern Frisian: Seschelen
- Northern Luri: سیشئل
- Northern Sami: Seychellaid dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Seychellat
- Northern Sami: Seychellsullot
- Norwegian: Seychellene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Seychellene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Seychellene
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Seychellane
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Seychellene
- Novial: Seyshels
- Occitan (post 1500): Seichèlas
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Segscelliega
- Oriya: ସେଚେଲସ୍
- Oriya: ସେସେଲଜ
- Oromo: Siishelsi
- Ossetian: Сейшелтæ
- Pali: सेशेल
- Pampanga: Kasesielan
- Pampanga: Seychelles
- Panjabi: ਸੇਸ਼ਲਸ
- Panjabi: ਸੇਸ਼ੈਲ
- Pedi: Seychelles
- Persian: سیشل
- Persian: سیچلز
- Piemontese: Seychelles
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Sieshels
- Polish: Republika Seszeli
- Polish: Seszele
- Portuguese: Ilhas Seychelles
- Portuguese: República das Seychelles
- Portuguese: SEY
- Portuguese: Seicheles
- Portuguese: Seychelles
- Portuguese: Sychelles
- Portuguese: sc
- Pushto: سیشل
- Pushto: سیچیلیس
- Quechua: Seychelles
- Quechua: Sichillakuna
- Rakhine: ဆီးရှဲ သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
- Romanian: Seychelles
- Romansh: Seychellas
- Rundi: Amazinga ya Seyisheli
- Russia Buriat: Сейшелиин аралнууд
- Russia Buriat: Сейшелийн арлууд
- Russian: Республика Сейшельские Острова
- Russian: Сейшелы
- Russian: Сейшельские Острова
- Russian: Сейшельские о-ва
- Russian: Сейшельские острова
- Samoan: Seychelles
- Samogitian: Seišielē
- Sango: Sëyshêle
- Sanskrit: सेशेल
- Sardinian: Seychelles
- Saterfriesisch: Seychelle
- Scots: Seychelles
- Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Sheiseall
- Serbian: Sejšeli
- Serbian: Сејшели
- Serbo-Croatian: Sejšeli
- Shan: မိူင်းသေးသျႄႇ
- Shona: Seychelles
- Shona: Seyisheri
- Sicilian: Seicelli
- Silesian: Seszele
- Sindhi: سيچيليس
- Sindhi: شي شلز
- Sinhala: සීශෙල්ස්
- Sinhala: සීෂෙල්ස්
- Skolt Sami: Seycheeʹll
- Skolt Sami: Seycheeʹlli tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Seychelská republika
- Slovak: Seychelské ostrovy
- Slovak: Seychely
- Slovenian: Sejšeli
- Somali: Seyshelles
- Somali: Sishelis
- South Azerbaijani: سیشل
- Southern Sotho: Seychelles
- Spanish: Republica de las Seychelles
- Spanish: República de las Seychelles
- Spanish: Seychelles
- Sundanese: Seychéll
- Swahili: Shelisheli
- Swahili: Ushelisheli
- Swati: ISeyishelesi
- Swedish: Republiken Seychellerna
- Swedish: Seychellerna
- Swiss German: Seychellen
- Tagalog: Seychelles
- Tagalog: Seyshels
- Tajik: Сейшел
- Tajik: Ҷазираҳои Сейшел
- Tamil: சீசெல்சு
- Tamil: சீஷெல்ஸ்
- Tatar: Сейшел утраулары
- Telugu: సీషెల్స్
- Telugu: సేషెల్స్
- Thai: ประเทศเซเชลส์
- Thai: เซเชลส์
- Tibetan: སཱ་ཤཻལ།
- Tibetan: སེ་ཞེལ།
- Tigrinya: ሲሼልስ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻOtumotu Seiseli
- Tosk Albanian: Seychellen
- Tsonga: Seychelles
- Tumbuka: Seychelles
- Tunisian Arabic: سيشال
- Turkish: Seychelles
- Turkish: Seyşel Adaları
- Turkish: Seyşeller
- Turkmen: Seýşel Adalary
- Turkmen: Seýşel adalary
- Udmurt: Сейшел шормуӵъёс
- Uighur: سېيشېل
- Uighur: سېيشېل ئاراللىرى
- Ukrainian: Республіка Сейшельські Острови
- Ukrainian: Сейшели
- Ukrainian: Сейшельські Острови
- Upper Sorbian: Seychelle
- Urdu: سشلیز
- Urdu: سیشیلز
- Uzbek: Seyshell orollari
- Uzbek: Seyshel orollari
- Venetian: Seicełe
- Venetian: Seychelles
- Veps: Seišelan Sared
- Vietnamese: Seychelles
- Vietnamese: Xây-sen
- Vietnamese: Xây sen (Seychelles)
- Volapük: Säceluäns
- Waray (Philippines): Seychelles
- Welsh: Seychelles
- Western Frisian: Seychellen
- Western Frisian: Seysjellen
- Western Mari: Сейшелвлӓ
- Western Panjabi: سشلز
- Wolof: Seysel
- Wu Chinese: 塞舌尔
- Yakut: Сейшеллар
- Yiddish: סיישעל
- Yoruba: Ṣeṣẹlẹsi
- Yoruba: Ṣèíhẹ́lẹ́sì
- Yue Chinese: 塞舌爾
- Zeeuws: Seychell'n
- Zhuang: Seychelles
- Zulu: IsiSeyisheli
- Zulu: i-Seychelles
- Colony of the Seychelles
- Seišelē
- 塞舌尔群岛
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