!!!Seychelles: Geography
||Location|archipelago in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar
||Geographic Coordinates|4 35 S, 55 40 E[{GoogleMap location='-4.5833335,55.666668' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''455 sq km\\''land: ''455 sq km\\''water: ''0 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 455\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 451\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 455\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 456\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 452\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 455''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|0 km
||Coastline|491 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Indian Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Morne Seychellois 905 m
||Highest Mountains|
||Terrain|Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky, hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs
||Natural Hazards|lies outside the cyclone belt, so severe storms are rare; occasional short droughts
||Natural Resource|fish, copra, cinnamon trees
||Land Use|''arable land: ''2.17%\\''permanent crops: ''4.35%\\''other: ''93.48% (2011)
||Climate|tropical marine; humid; cooler season during southeast monsoon (late May to September); warmer season during northwest monsoon (March to May)
||Irrigated Land|2.6 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|NA
||Environment_CurrentIssues|water supply depends on catchments to collect rainwater
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Victoria\\ __[[Verified]__||Geography-note|smallest African country; the constitution of the Republic of Seychelles lists 155 islands: 42 granitic and 113 coralline; by far the largest island is Mahe, which is home to about 90% of the population and the site of the capital city of Victoria