The archipelago has bet its future on construction of an artificial, elevated island that could house a majority of the population of nearly 555,000 people
The nation’s entire land area is just 115 square miles sitting in 35,000 square miles of ocean, with few islands bigger than 300 acres.Threaded together, the land and sea are the fabric of Maldivian identity. The relationship is one of fundamental fluidity. “When I say land, I include the water,” said Saeedh. “For us, the water isn’t separate from the land; the ‘land’ is the water and the island as a whole, because that’s where we live.
“Two-thirds of the population can be housed on these two main islands,” said Ismail Shan Rasheed, planning strategist at the Hulhumalé Development Corporation. Each tower is home to multiple islands’ worth of people. Moosa moved from a one-room flat in Malé, which she shared with her sister and two nephews, into a three-room apartment on the top floor of “H-2.” “There are so many people living here,” she said.“We don’t know our neighbors.”
And the hope is that the City of Hope can solve some of the nation’s other ailments by providing better schools and good jobs in a country where unemployment has reached 15 percent.
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