Seychelles

  (Updated February 2018)

  【Official name】Republic of Seychelles

  【Area】 The total land area is 455 k㎡ and the total territorial sea area is 400,000 km2, with Exclusive Economic Zone of 1.4 million km2.

  【Population】About 96,000 (June 2017). Most of the residents are Bantu, Creole (of Europeans and African mixed origin), Indian, Chinese, British and French descendants. The official languages are Creole, French and English. Most Seychelles (90%) are Christians, 4% of the population practice Protestantism, Hinduism and others.

  【Capital】Victoria, which has a population of about 30,000. The average temperature of the hot season (from December to March) is 30℃and that of the cool season (April to November) is 24℃.

  【Head of State】President Danny Faure, elected on 16 October 2016.

  【Holidays】National Day (29 June)

  【Geography and Climate】Located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Africa, the country encompasses 115 islands. It is 1,593 kmwest to the Mombasa Port of Kenya, 925 km to the southwest of Madagascar, 2,813 km to the northeast of Mumbai of India, and has Mauritius to the south across the sea. It has a tropical marine climate, and is hot and rainy all the year round.

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