Seychelles is commonly catergorised as a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) due to its size and challenges it faces. However, we have come to recognize ourselves as a Large Ocean State because the area of ocean that we have largely surpasses our land area, with a total land area of 455km2, scattered over 115 islands, and an ocean size of 1.3 million km2. 30 percent of our ocean territory is protected.