{"id":61521,"date":"2023-12-08T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=current-affairs&#038;p=61521"},"modified":"2023-12-09T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:26:34","slug":"seychelles","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/seychelles","title":{"rendered":"Places in News: Seychelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seychelles recently declared a state of emergency in response to a blast at an explosives stockpile triggered due to flooding.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>About Seychelles:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Western Indian Ocean<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principal Seychelles islands are located around 1,600 km east of Kenya and approximately 1,100 km northeast of Madagascar.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seychelles is located in the <\/span><b>Southern and Eastern Hemispheres <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Capital:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Located on the island of Mah\u00e9.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61744 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339.webp\" alt=\"Seychelles\" width=\"420\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339.webp 2000w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339-300x195.webp 300w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339-1024x666.webp 1024w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339-768x499.webp 768w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339-360x234.webp 360w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339-1536x998.webp 1536w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Untitled-2023-12-09T154012.339-1568x1019.webp 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><b>UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Seychelles:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aldabra Islands\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vall\u00e9e de Mai National Park<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ethnic groups:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> French were the first people to settle on the collection of islands in the 1770s.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ninety percent of the Seychelles&#8217; population lives on Mahe, the largest island. The people who live there are called <\/span><b>Seychellois.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Image Source: Britannica<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group known as <\/span><b>Indo-Seychellois are the second largest ethnic group in Seychelles.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Religion:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Roman Catholics make up more than three-quarters of the population.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/world-news\/seychelles-declares-state-of-emergency-after-huge-explosion-comes-hours-after-deadly-flooding-victoria\/3331170\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>Financial Express<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles recently declared a state of emergency in response to a blast at an explosives stockpile triggered due to flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/61521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/61521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61855,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/61521\/revisions\/61855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61521"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=61521"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=61521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}