Seychelles is 53% larger than Maldives.
Area: 298 km2 World Factbook
Population: 393,595 (July 2014) World Factbook
Maldives, officially the Republic of the Maldives and also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean–Arabian Sea area, consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago. Wikipedia
Area: 455 km2 World Factbook
Population: 91,650 (July 2014) World Factbook
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is a 155-island country spanning an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, whose capital, Victoria, lies some 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Southeast Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar. Wikipedia