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The Maldives is a small island nation in South Asia, remarkable as the only known civilization to have developed and thrived entirely without a river system—a feat unmatched in the historical record of settled societies.
It is also the oldest continuously unified country in South Asia, with a documented history of centralized rule stretching from its northernmost atolls to its southern edge.
Long before many of its neighbours formalized their political systems, the Maldives adopted a written constitution, and its parliament—today known as the People’s Majlis—has a recorded institutional history of nearly a century.
For a nation of scattered coral islands, this continuity of governance and political identity is one of its most enduring achievements.
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