Rasdhoo
Inhabited island
Rasdhoo Location in Maldives
Coordinates: 4°15′46″N 72°59′29″E / 4.26278°N 72.99139°E / 4.26278; 72.99139
Country	Maldives
Geographic atoll	Rasdhukuramathi Atoll
Administrative atoll	Alif Alif Atoll
Distance to Malé	58.26 km (36.20 mi)
Dimensions
• Length	0.575 km (0.357 mi)
• Width	0.400 km (0.249 mi)
Population  (2014)[1]
• Total	1,067 (including foreigners)
Time zone	UTC+05:00 (MST)

Rasdhoo (Dhivehi: ރަސްދޫ) (Rasdu in the Admiralty Chart) is an inhabited island of the Maldives. It is also the capital of the Alif Alif Atoll administrative division.

The island is 58.26 km (36 mi; 31 nmi) west of the country's capital, Malé.^[2] It is the only inhabited island of a small natural atoll known as Rasdhoo, Rasdu or Ross Atoll located a few miles off NE Ari Atoll.

As of September 2016, Rasdhoo has sixteen guesthouses.

A thrice-a-week ferry service or daily speedboats operate between Malé and Rasdhoo.

• Bodufulhadhoo
• Feridhoo
• Himandhoo
• Maalhos
• Mathiveri
• Ukulhas

• Divehi Tārīkhah Au Alikameh. Divehi Bahāi Tārikhah Khidmaiykurā Qaumī Markazu. Reprint 1958 edn. Malé 1990.
• Divehiraajjege Jōgrafīge Vanavaru. Muhammadu Ibrahim Lutfee. G.Sōsanī.
• Xavier Romero-Frias, The Maldive Islanders, A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom. Barcelona 1999.

• Wells, Susan M. Coral Reefs of the World. Vol. 2: Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Gulf. Nairobi, Kenya: UNEP. pp. 202-3. ISBN 2-88032-944-2. OCLC 681206147.

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