I was referring the the land area. 'Cause it is only the land area is comparable with Xisha's Yongxing Is. 永兴岛 (2 km2) and the planning fishing port in the Yongle Islands 永乐群岛 (3+km2).
If such a tiny spot of Male can hold more than 100k maybe...
I think the population of civilian in Xisha is roughly less than 1000. The total land area is about 10 km2. The fishing port in Xisha is gonna create 3 km2 of land from sea. But all in all I don't think the Islands has a very big capacity.
How big is the Maldives?
A number of shipyards are known to produce the Type 056 light frigate, including the pioneering HP and HD. It's gonna take 6 to 8 years to finish the batch of 50 056.
The exciting part is there is a company going to build the port area of 5000亩 out of sea bed. It's gonna be two times the size of 永兴岛.
Identify the make and model of a UAV by such a nano picture. LOL.
FYI there are over a hundreds of UAV models under development in the labs and factories throughout the 9.6 million KM2 country.
Out of 10 ASEAN countries, 4 are on China's side (Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia), three are neutral (Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia), one is two small to make any difference (Brunei) which left only two trouble makers.
Do you see the triangle shaped button on the left side of every post with an "!" in it? That's how you bring peace back to the world from Indian "mannerism".