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Komandoo belongs to shaviyani atoll which is located in the north of the Maldives, the national island code is C-13. According to the recent statistics the population of the island is 1694 and which is very high when compare to the other population of the atoll comparatively and at the same time, the land size is just 6 acres which is known as largest population with the smallest island last in the atoll.

                Among the inhabitants of komandoo, there are sign of other clusters, the people in the island includes the inhabitants from  Mathi-Komandoo and Keekimini, and it was believed that the reason for the migrant of those island is caused by the disturbance of malabaries during the time Portuguese invasion according to the ancient history.

The major occupation of the local is fishing, and the fisherman makes a quite reasonable income from fishing and enjoys good living comparatively.

Though the population growth is controlled, it has stock the social island. The minor and the major obstacle faced for the locals and the development activities are land tribulation, insufficient land. As a result, enormous number of crisis has started arising. Huge number of households is located at the shore, and the shore has to be protected to live at normal life. Groundwater-lance of the island was totally contaminated. Waste management system is miserable, all the domestic waste are dumping into the sea. Even though the situations are in such condition, the beloved people of the island had the will and made the difference, no halt was made to their commitment. As a consequence, the people of  the island have made number of remarkable achievement with support and assistant of the government and other aid agencies such as UNDP.