Mahé, Seychelles
#57 in WorldSeychelles
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Area
157 km²
Coordinates
-4.6796, 55.4920
Category
islands
Overview
The granite hub of the Seychelles, famed for its boulder-strewn beaches.
About
Mahé is the largest island of Seychelles, with an area of 157.3 square kilometres (60.7 sq mi), lying in the northeast of the Seychellois nation in the Somali Sea part of the Indian Ocean. The population of Mahé was 77,000, as of the 2010 census. It contains the capital city of Victoria and accommodates 86% of the country's total population. The island was named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, a French governor of Isle de France.
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