Newly sworn - in new president plans to buy land to relocate entire nation . Climate change - threatened Indian Ocean islands could sink under rising sea levels . Maldives is considering land in Sri Lanka , India and Pakistan . Journalist Sumon K. Chakrabarti in Male and CNN 's Saeed Ahmed in Atlanta contributed to this report . It was badly hit by tsunami of 2004 , with more than 200 people dead or missing .
Newly sworn - in new president plans to buy land to relocate entire nation . Climate change - threatened Indian Ocean islands could sink under rising sea levels . Maldives is considering land in Sri Lanka , India and Pakistan . It was badly hit by tsunami of 2004 , with more than 200 people dead or missing .