Tarxien
Tarxien is a town in the Port region of Malta, seat of the Port Regional Council. Its population stood at 8,583 in March 2014. The town is most notable for the Tarxien Temples, a megalithic temple complex which is among the oldest freestanding structures on Earth.
- Type: Village with 8,580 residents
- Description: town in Malta
- Also known as: “Casal Tarxen”, “Hal Tarxien”, “Hal-Tarxien”, “Ħal-Tarxien”, “MT-59”, “Tarshin”, “رَحْلُ طَرْشَانَ”, and “타르시엔”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and Parish Church of Christ the King.
Parish Church of Christ the King
Church
Photo: Bulbul, Public domain.Chinese Garden of Serenity
Garden
Photo: Wykebjs, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Luċija and Paola.
Santa Luċija
Village
Photo: Wykebjs, Public domain.
Tarxien
Latitude
35.86489° or 35° 51′ 54″ north
Longitude
14.51149° or 14° 30′ 41″ east
Population
8,580
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
UN/LOCODE
MT TAR
Open location code
8F7PVG76+XH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Tarxien” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ታርክሲዓን”
- Arabic: “تاركسيان”
- Arabic: “ترزين”
- Arabic: “رحل طرشان”
- Azerbaijani: “Tarxien”
- Basque: “Tarxien”
- Belarusian: “Таршын”
- Bengali: “টারক্সিয়েন”
- Bengali: “তার্ক্সিয়েন”
- Catalan: “Tarxien”
- Cebuano: “Tarxien”
- Central Kurdish: “تارشین”
- Chechen: “Таршин”
- Chinese: “塔尔欣”
- Chinese: “塔爾欣”
- Czech: “Tarxien”
- Danish: “Tarxien”
- Dutch: “Tarxien”
- Esperanto: “Tarxien”
- Finnish: “Tarxien”
- French: “Ħal Tarxien”
- French: “Tarxien”
- Galician: “Tarxien”
- German: “Tarxien”
- Greek: “Τάρκσιεν”
- Gujarati: “તાર્ક્સિએન”
- Hausa: “Tarxien”
- Hebrew: “טרשין”
- Hindi: “तरशीन”
- Hindi: “तार्क्सिएन”
- Hungarian: “Tarxien”
- Indonesian: “Tarxien”
- Italian: “Tarscen”
- Italian: “Tarxien”
- Japanese: “タークシエン”
- Japanese: “タルシーン”
- Javanese: “Tarxien”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾಕ್ಸೀನ್”
- Kazakh: “Таркьен”
- Kirghiz: “Таркьен”
- Korean: “타르신”
- Latin: “Tarxien”
- Latin: “Tirix”
- Latvian: “Taršina”
- Lithuanian: “Taršinas”
- Malay: “Tarxien”
- Maltese: “Casal Tarxien”
- Maltese: “Ħal Tarxien”
- Marathi: “टर्क्सिएन”
- Mingrelian: “ტარშინი”
- Northern Sami: “Tarxien”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarxien”
- Norwegian: “Tarxien”
- Oromo: “Tarxien”
- Panjabi: “ਤਾਰਕ੍ਸਿਐਨ”
- Persian: “ترزین”
- Polish: “Tarxien”
- Portuguese: “Tarxien”
- Pushto: “تارکسیان”
- Pushto: “ترزین”
- Romanian: “Tarxien”
- Russian: “Таршин”
- Sicilian: “Tarxien”
- Sinhala: “ටක්සියෙන්”
- Somali: “Tarxien”
- Spanish: “Tarxien”
- Swahili: “Tarxien”
- Swedish: “Ħal Tarxien”
- Swedish: “Tarxien”
- Tajik: “Таркьен”
- Tamil: “டர்க்ஸின்”
- Tatar: “Таркьен”
- Telugu: “టార్జియెన్”
- Thai: “ทาร์เซียน”
- Turkish: “Tarxien”
- Ukrainian: “Таршіен”
- Urdu: “تارشیئن”
- Uzbek: “Tarxien”
- Vietnamese: “Tarxien”
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Highlights: Knisja Parrokjali ta‘ Ħal Tarxien and Misraħ tas-Suq.
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