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Articles (arranged alphabetically) related to Seychelles include:
Mahé, Seychelles • Mahé highlands and surrounding areas Important Bird Area • Malaysia–Seychelles relations • Malcolm Stevenson (1927) • Mamelles Island • Marianne Island • Marie Louise Island • Marie Louise Island Airport • Mascarene Plateau • Military of Seychelles • Mineral industry of Seychelles • Minister for Foreign Affairs (Seychelles) • Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Seychelles) • Mont Buxton • Mont Fleuri • Montagne Glacis Important Bird Area • Montea • Morne Seychellois • Moyenne Island • Music of Seychelles • MV Beluga Nomination incident
Operation Flowers are Blooming • Orion Air • Outer Islands (Seychelles)
People's Party (Seychelles) • People's Stadium, Seychelles • Percy Selwyn-Clarke (1947-1951) • Perseverance Island, Seychelles • Petite Soeur • Picard Island • Plaisance, Seychelles • Platte Island Airport • Pointe La Rue • Poivre Atoll • Politics of Seychelles • Port Glaud • Port Island, Seychelles • Port of Victoria (Seychelles) • Postage stamps and postal history of Seychelles • Praslin • Praslin Island Airport • Praslin National Park and surrounding areas Important Bird Area • Prime Minister of Seychelles • Providence Atoll PS Constant • PS Topaz • Public holidays in Seychelles
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Rat Island (Seychelles) • Red Star FC (Seychelles) • Religion in Seychelles • Remire Island • Remire Island Airport • Remire Reef • Revengers FC • Roche Caiman • Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria • Roman Catholicism in Seychelles • Romainville Island, Seychelles • Round Island, Mahe • Rugby union in the Seychelles • Russia–Seychelles relations
Saffron rice • Saint Louis, Seychelles • Saint Louis Suns United • Sainte Anne Marine National Park • Sèche Island • Sega music • Seychelles at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics • Seychelles at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics • Seychelles at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics • Seychelles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics • Seychelles at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics • Seychelles at the Commonwealth Games • Seychelles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games • Seychelles at the 2006 Commonwealth Games • Seychelles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games • Seychelles at the 2014 Commonwealth Games • Seychelles at the Olympics • Seychelles at the 1980 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 1984 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 1992 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 1996 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 2000 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 2004 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 2008 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 2012 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the 2016 Summer Olympics • Seychelles at the Paralympics • Seychelles at the 1992 Summer Paralympics • Seychelles at the 2016 Summer Paralympics • Seychelles at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships • Seychelles at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships • Seychelles at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships • Seychelles at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships • Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation • Seychelles Chess Championship • Seychelles Child Development Study • Seychelles Coast Guard • Seychelles community in the EU • Seychelles Cricket Association • Seychelles Democratic Party • Seychelles FA Cup • Seychelles Federation of Workers' Unions • Seychelles First Division • Seychelles Football Federation • Seychelles Hockey Federation • Seychelles Institute of Management • Seychelles International Airport • Seychelles International Repatriation Onward Program Seychelles International Safari Air • Seychelles Islands Foundation • Seychelles League • Seychelles Marketing Board • Seychelles Medical and Dental Association • Seychelles Medical and Dental Council • Seychelles microcontinent • Seychelles Movement for Democracy • Seychelles Nation • Seychelles National Archives • Seychelles national basketball team • Seychelles national beach soccer team • Seychelles national cricket team • Seychelles national football team • Seychelles national under-17 football team • Seychelles National Movement • Seychelles National Party • Seychelles national rugby union team • Seychelles Natural History Museum • Seychelles News Agency • Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association • Seychelles Party • Seychelles People's Defence Force Air Wing • Seychelles People's Progressive Front • Seychelles Polytechnic • Seychelles Port Authority • Seychelles Securities Exchange (Trop-X) • Seychelles Scout Association • Seychelles–Tanzania Maritime Boundary Agreement • Seychelles Time • Seychelles Tourism Board • Seychelles–United States relations • Seychelles Workers Union • Seychellense Ambassador to China • Seychellense Ambassador to United States • Seychellois Creole • Seychellois Creole people • Seychellois constitutional commission election, 1992 • Seychellois constitutional referendum, 1992 • Seychellois constitutional referendum, 1993 • Seychellois general election, 1979 • Seychellois general election, 1993 • Seychellois general election, 1998 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1948 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1951 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1953 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1957 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1963 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1967 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1970 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1974 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1983 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 1987 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 2002 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 2007 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 2011 • Seychellois parliamentary election, 2016 • Seychellois passport • Seychellois presidential election, 1984 • Seychellois presidential election, 1989 • Seychellois presidential election, 2001 • Seychellois presidential election, 2006 • Seychellois presidential election, 2011 • Seychellois presidential election, 2015 • Seychellois rupee • Seychellois units of measurement • Shark chutney • Silhouette Island • Sino-Seychellois • Slavery in Seychelles • Soleil Island • Songoula • Souris Island • Southern Coral Group • Sport in Seychelles • Stade d’Amitié • Stade Linité • State House (Seychelles) • St Francis FC (Seychelles) • St. Francis of Assisi Church, Baie Lazare • St. François Atoll • St. Joseph Atoll • St Michel United FC • St. Pierre Island, Farquhar • St. Pierre Island, Praslin • St Roch United • Ste. Anne Island • Ste Anne Marine National Park • Super Magic Brothers
Takamaka • Tamil Seychellois • Telecommunications in Seychelles • Telephone numbers in Seychelles • Thérèse Island • The Lions FC • Thorpe Bank • Tourism in Seychelles • Transport in Seychelles
United States drone base in Seychelles University of Seychelles
Vache Island, Seychelles • Vallée de Mai • Vanilla Islands • Vice President of Seychelles • Victoria • Victoria Botanical Gardens • Visa policy of Seychelles • Visa requirements for Seychellois citizens
Walter Edward Davidson (1904-1912) • Whaling in Seychelles • Wildlife of Seychelles • Wizard Reef • Women in Seychelles
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Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, is 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Africa. Nearby island countries and territories include the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the French overseas departments of Mayotte and Réunion to the south; and the Chagos Archipelago and Maldives to the east and borders Kenya to the far east. Seychelles is the smallest country in Africa as well as the least populated sovereign African country, with an estimated population of 100,600 in 2022.
Seychelles is a small island country east of the African continent located in the Sea of Zanj due north of Madagascar, with Antsiranana as its nearest foreign city. Seychelles lies between approximately 4ºS and 10ºS and 46ºE and 54ºE. The nation is an archipelago of 155 tropical islands, some granite and some coral, the majority of which are small and uninhabited. The landmass is only 452 km2 (175 sq mi), but the islands are spread wide over an exclusive economic zone of 1,336,559 km2 (516,048 sq mi). About 90 percent of the population of 100,000 live on Mahé, 9 percent on Praslin and La Digue. Around a third of the land area is the island of Mahé and a further third the atoll of Aldabra.
France-Albert René was a Seychellois lawyer, politician and statesman who served as the second President of Seychelles from 1977 to 2004. He also served as the country's second Prime Minister from its independence in 1976 to 1977.
Praslin Island Airport also known as Iles des Palmes Airport, is an airport at Grand Anse on Praslin Island in the Seychelles. It is served by Air Seychelles, which flies scheduled flights to Mahé and charters to the other islands in the Seychelles. The airport has the capacity to handle over 1500 passengers daily and over half a million passengers annually.
Takamaka is one of the 26 administrative regions of Mahé, Republic of Seychelles. It is located on the southern part of the island of Mahé. Three other districts cover the two other main islands of the Republic, Grand' Anse and Baie Sainte Anne on the island of Praslin and the inner islands district which comprise the 3rd largest island, La Digue. The population of Takamata is estimated at around 3,000.
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.
Praslin is the second largest island (38.5 km2) of the Inner Seychelles, lying 44 km (27 mi) northeast of Mahé. Praslin has a population of around 7,533 people and comprises two administrative districts: Baie Sainte Anne and Grand' Anse. The main settlements are the Baie Ste Anne, Anse Volbert and Grand' Anse.
La Digue is the third most populated island of the Seychelles, and fourth largest by land area, lying east of Praslin and west of Felicite Island. In size, it is the fourth-largest granitic island of Seychelles after Mahé, Praslin, and Silhouette Island. It has a population of 2,800 people. Most of the inhabitants live in the west coast villages of La Passe and Anse Réunion. There is no airport on La Digue, so to get there from a foreign country, one must fly to Victoria and continue by ferry, usually via Praslin. It has an area of 10.08 km2, making it relatively easy to travel by bike or on foot.
The Outer Islands or Coralline Seychelles (archipelago) is a collective term for those islands of the Seychelles that are not on the shallow Seychelles Bank which defines the location of the granitic Inner Islands archipelago to the east. The local Seychellois Creole name for the outer islands is Zil Elwannyen Sesel, while the French name is Îles Eloignées. They are all of coral formation, and in the western Indian Ocean.
Indo-Seychellois are inhabitants of Seychelles with Indian heritage. With about 10,000 Indo-Seychellois in a total Seychellois population of nearly 100,000, they constitute a minority ethnic group in Seychelles. According to National Bureau of Statistics Seychelles in 2022, Indian community in Seychelles representing 9.0% from Seychelles population, up from 4.4% in 2010.
Phoenicophorium, the thief palm, is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. The sole species is Phoenicophorium borsigianum.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Seychelles:
Tourism is the most important nongovernment sector of Seychelles' economy. About 15 percent of the formal work force is directly employed in tourism, and employment in construction, banking, transportation, and other activities is closely tied to the tourist industry. Tourists enjoy the Seychelles' coral beaches and opportunities for water sports. Wildlife in the archipelago is also a major attraction.
The history of Seychelles dates back to the fourth of the Portuguese India Armadas led by Vasco da Gama, though Seychelles was likely already known to Arab navigators and other sailors for many centuries. On 15 March 1503, the scrivener Thomé Lopes noted the sighting of an elevated island, doubtless one of the granitic islands and almost certainly Silhouette Island. The first recorded landing was by the men of the English East India Company ship Ascension, which arrived in Seychelles in January 1609. The islands were claimed by France in 1756. Seychelles remained uninhabited until the first settlers arrived on board the ship Thélemaque, which arrived on 27 August 1770. Captain Leblanc Lecore landed the first colonists, comprising 15 white men, eight Africans and five Indians. The Seychellois Creole language developed as a means of communication between the different races. The British frigate Orpheus commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahé on 16 May 1794. Terms of capitulation were drawn up and the next day Seychelles was surrendered to Britain. Following the fall of Mauritius to British forces, Captain Phillip Beaver of the Nisus arrived at Mahé on 23 April 1811 and took possession of Seychelles as a permanent colony of Britain. The Seychelles became an independent republic in 1976. Following a coup d'état, a socialist one-party state ruled the country from 1977 to 1993. The subsequent democratic Presidential elections were won by candidates of the same party.
Ralph Jean-Louis is a Seychellois football manager and former player. He manages the Seychelles men's national team. He also used to manage St Michel United, a team in the Seychelles First Division. As a player, he played eleven years for the Seychelles national team as a midfielder and striker. At club level, he played for Bel Air FC, Anse-aux-Pins FC and St Michel United. He won two bronze medals as a player at the Indian Ocean Island Games as well as a gold as a manager.
Parliamentary elections were held for the first in the Seychelles in October 1948. The Seychelles Taxpayers and Producers Association (STPA), which primarily represented the interests of large landowners, won all four seats.
Felicity Elizabeth Passon is a Seychellois swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. She represented Seychelles at the 2019 African Games, winning two gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal, and qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Seychelles Postal Service, is the public operator responsible for postal service in Seychelles.
