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{{Infobox settlement
| name                   = Utheemu
| native_name            = އުތީމު
| native_name_lang       = dv
| settlement_type        = ''[[administrative_divisions_of_the_maldives#Island|island]]''
| image_skyline          = Utheemu03.jpg
| image_caption          = ''Utheemu Ganduvaru''- the historic residence of [[Muhammad Thakurufaanu Al-Azam| Sultan Mohamed Thakurufaanu]] and other rulers of the [[Utheemu dynasty|Utheemu Dynasty]]
| pushpin_map            = Maldives
| pushpin_relief         = y
| pushpin_map_caption    = Location in Maldives
| coordinates            = {{coord|6|50|4|N|73|06|47|E|region:MV|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type       = Country
| subdivision_name       = [[Maldives]]
| subdivision_type1      = Geographic atoll
| subdivision_name1      = [[Atolls_of_the_Maldives#Thiladhunmathi|Thiladhunmathi Atoll]]
| subdivision_type2      = [[Administrative divisions of the Maldives|Administrative atoll]]
| subdivision_name2      = [[Haa Alif Atoll]]
| subdivision_type3      = Distance to Malé
| subdivision_name3      = {{convert|297.32|km|mi|abbr=on}}
| seat_type              = Capital
| parts_type             = Geographic atolls
| parts_style            = list
| leader_title           = [[Administrative divisions of the Maldives#Divisions|Council]]
| leader_name            = Utheemu Island Council
| leader_title3          = Mayor
| leader_title4          = Island Chief
| unit_pref              = Metric
| length_km              = 0.9
| width_km               = 0.73
| population_footnotes   = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://statisticsmaldives.gov.mv/nbs/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Census-Summary-Tables1.pdf|title=Table PP5: Resident Population by sex, nationality and locality (administrative islands), 2014|page=33|work=Population and Households Census 2014|publisher=National Bureau of Statistics|access-date=9 August 2018}}</ref>
| population_total       = 569 (including foreigners)
| population_as_of       = 2014
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone               = {{abbr|MST|Maldives Standard Time}}
| utc_offset             = +05:00
| postal_code_type       = Assigned Letter
| postal2_code_type      = Assigned Letter {{small|(Dhivehi)}}
| area_code_type         = [[Telephone numbers in the Maldives|Area code(s)]]
| area_code              = 650, 20
| blank_name_sec2        = Number of Islands
| blank1_name_sec2       = Inhabited
| blank2_name_sec2       = Uninhabited
| blank3_name_sec2       = Total
}}
'''Utheemu''' ({{langx|dv|އުތީމު}}) is one of the inhabited islands of  [[Haa Alif Atoll]] administrative division and geographically part of Thiladhummathi Atoll in the north of the [[Maldives]].  It is an [[Administrative_divisions_of_the_Maldives#Island|island-level]] administrative constituency governed by the Utheemu Island Council.
==History==
Utheemu is famed as the birthplace of [[Muhammad Thakurufaanu Al-Azam| Sultan Mohamed Thakurufaanu]], who with his brothers and his companions fought a fifteen-year-long war to drive out the Portuguese invaders who occupied the Maldives from 1558 to 1573. ''Utheemu Ganduvaru'' is the wooden palace in which Sultan Mohamed Thakurufaanu lived and grew up. It is well preserved and evokes more than any other existing building in the Maldives, the lifestyle of the rich, centuries ago.
The kings of the [[Utheemu dynasty|Utheemu Dynasty]], Sultans Muhammed Imaduddin I (1632 to 1648 AD), Ibrahim Iskandar I (1648 to 1687 AD), Kuda Muhammad (1687 to 1691 AD) and Mohammed Moheyeddin (1691 to 1692 AD) all descended from this island. Regents from Utheem also ruled the Maldives from 1573 to 1632 AD, but the legal (though unrecognised) kings of the islands during this period were the exiled Christian Kings of the Maldives residing in [[Goa]], [[India]].
From 1602 to 1607, a French sailor, [[François Pyrard de Laval]] spent time on the Maldives, and gave a detailed account of the customs of the islanders during the Utheemu dynasty. His three-volume work was published in 1619 and is considered a valuable historical archive.
==Geography==
The island is {{convert|297.32|km|mi nmi|0|abbr=on}} north of the country's capital, [[Malé]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boulter.com/gps/distance/?from=4.175278+73.508889&to=6.834444+73.113056&units=k|title=Coordinate Distance Calculator|work=Boulter.com|access-date=9 August 2018}}</ref>
==Demography==
{{Historical populations
|align = center
|2006 |521
|2014 |538
|footnote = 2006-2014: Census populations
|source = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://statisticsmaldives.gov.mv/yearbook/2017/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/08/3.3.pdf|title=Table 3.3: Total Maldivian Population by Islands|work=National Bureau of Statistics|access-date=9 August 2018}}</ref>
}}
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Utheemu01.jpg|Harbor
File:Utheemu02.jpg|Beach, north shore
File:Utheemu04.jpg|New mosque
File:Utheemu05.jpg|Utheemu Ganduvaru residence
File:Utheemu06.jpg|Ancient cemetery
</gallery>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://isles.egov.mv/Island/?lid=2&id=14 Isles: Utheemu]
{{Islands of the Maldives}}
[[Category:Islands of the Maldives]]
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