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Vallée de Mai, Outer Islands (Seychelles), Aldabra and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Seychelles and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 2 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Protected area, Seychelles
A nature park and UNESCO World Heritage Site on Praslin, Seychelles: a well-preserved palm forest whose flagship species are the island's own coco de mer and five other palms found only there.
Photo: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0
Islands not on the shallow Seychelles Bank
Also called Coralline Seychelles, the name for those islands of the Seychelles that lie off the shallow Seychelles Bank, which marks the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east. In Seychellois Creole they are Zil Elwannyen Sesel, and in French Îles Eloignées.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
World Heritage
Largest island of Seychelles
The biggest island of Seychelles, covering 157.3 square kilometres (60.7 sq mi) in the northeast of the country, in the Somali Sea part of the Indian Ocean; it had 77,000 people at the 2010 census.
Photo: Hansueli Krapf ( User:Simisa ), CC BY-SA 2.5
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Highest peak in Seychelles
The highest peak of Seychelles, on Mahé island, within Morne Seychellois National Park.
Photo: Remi Jouan, CC BY-SA 3.0
Part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles
Part of the Seychelles' Outer Islands, in the southwest of the country, around 1,100 kilometres from Victoria, the capital, on Mahé.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Group of Islands in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles
Part of the Seychelles' Outer Islands, in the southwest of the country, more than 700 km (430 mi) southwest of Victoria, the capital, on Mahé.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Island in the Seychelles, Somali Sea
The second-biggest island (38.5 km²) of the Inner Seychelles, 44 km (27 mi) northeast of Mahé, with around 7,533 people in two administrative districts, Grand' Anse and Baie Sainte Anne.
Photo: Tobias Alt, Tobi 87, CC BY-SA 4.0
Island group in the Indian Ocean
Covering 12,642 km² (4,881 sq mi), the biggest atoll structure on Earth, found in the Chagos Archipelago roughly 500 km (310 mi) south of the Maldives.
Photo: Mohonu at en.wikipedia, Public domain
Officially the Republic of Seychelles, an island country of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Victoria, its capital and biggest city, is 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Africa. Its island neighbours include, to the south, the Maldives, the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and France's overseas departments of Réunion and Mayotte, and, to the east, the Chagos Archipelago.
Officially The Republic of Seychelles. Known locally as Seychelles, Seychelles, Sesel.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Vallée de Mai, Outer Islands (Seychelles), Aldabra and Mahé and others. Vallée de Mai and Aldabra are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Seychelles that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
2 of the 10 in this guide: Vallée de Mai and Aldabra. That is not the full count for Seychelles, only the listed sites that made this guide.
English, French, Seychellois Creole. The currency is SCR.
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