Saint Lawrence

San Lawrenz is an administrative unit of , on the island of . Its name is derived from Lawrence of Rome who is the patron saint for the locality.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Village with 748 residents
  • Description: local council in Gozo, Malta
  • Also known as: “San Lawrenz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Collapsed Azure Window and Fungus Rock.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
The Azure Window, also known as the Dwejra Window, was a 28-metre-tall natural arch on the island of , located just off the shores of . The limestone feature, which was in Dwejra Bay close to the and , was one of the island's major tourist attractions until it collapsed in stormy weather on 8 March 2017.

Islet
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, sometimes known as Mushroom Rock, and among the Maltese as Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral, is a small islet in the form of a 60-metre-high massive lump of limestone at the entrance to an almost circular black lagoon in Dwejra, on the coast of , itself an island in the .

Lagoon
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The , sometimes called Il-Qawra in Maltese and also known as Dwejra, is a lagoon of seawater on the island of linked to the Mediterranean Sea through an opening formed by a narrow natural arch.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gharb and St. Lucia.

Village
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Għarb is an administrative unit of , located at the westernmost point of the island of , with a population of 1,549 people.

Hamlet
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Santa Luċija is a hamlet in , in Island, . The hamlet takes its name from the church situated in the middle of the hamlet. The original chapel dedicated to St Lucy was recorded by inquisitor Pietro Dusina in 1575 during his apostolic visitation.

Village
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is a village and an administrative unit of , in the western part of the island of . The population of was 529 in July 2024. This included 284 males and 245 females; 421 Maltese nationals and 108 foreign nationals.

Saint Lawrence

Latitude
36.0553° or 36° 3′ 19″ north
Longitude
14.20395° or 14° 12′ 14″ east
Population
748
Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT SLW
Open location code
8F8P3643+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 131745085
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2562552
Wiki­data ID
Q537308
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Saint Lawrence” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳን ላውረንዝ”
  • Arabic: “سان لورينز”
  • Arabic: “سانت لورنس”
  • Azerbaijani: “San Lawrenz”
  • Basque: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Bengali: “সান লাউরেন্জ”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট লরেন্স”
  • Catalan: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Cebuano: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Cebuano: “San Lawrenz”
  • Chinese: “圣劳伦斯”
  • Chinese: “聖勞倫斯”
  • Czech: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Czech: “San Lawrenz”
  • Danish: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Dutch: “San Lawrenz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساينت لاورينسى”
  • Esperanto: “San Lawrenz”
  • Finnish: “Saint Lawrence”
  • French: “San Lawrenz”
  • German: “San Lawrenz”
  • Greek: “Σεντ Λόρενς”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ લોરેન્સ”
  • Hausa: “San Lawrenz”
  • Hindi: “सेंट लॉरेंस”
  • Hindi: “सैन लौरेंज”
  • Hungarian: “San Lawrenz”
  • Indonesian: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Indonesian: “San Lawrenz”
  • Italian: “San Lorenzo”
  • Japanese: “サン ラウレンツ”
  • Japanese: “サン・ローレンツ”
  • Javanese: “San Lawrenz”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಂಟ್ ಲಾರೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Лавренц”
  • Kirghiz: “Сан-Лавренц”
  • Korean: “산라우렌츠”
  • Latvian: “Senlorenca”
  • Lithuanian: “San Lavrencas”
  • Luxembourgish: “San Lawrenz”
  • Malay: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Malay: “San Lawrenz”
  • Maltese: “San Laurenz”
  • Maltese: “San Lawrenz”
  • Marathi: “सेंट लॉरेन्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San Lawrenz”
  • Norwegian: “San Lawrenz”
  • Oromo: “San Lawrenz”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੈਨ ਲੋਰੇਂਜ”
  • Persian: “سان لورنز”
  • Persian: “سن لاورنز”
  • Polish: “San Lawrenz”
  • Portuguese: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Portuguese: “San Lawrenz”
  • Pushto: “سان لورنز”
  • Russian: “Сан Лоренц”
  • Russian: “Сан-Лавренц”
  • Russian: “Сан-Лоренц”
  • Sicilian: “San Lawrenz”
  • Sinhala: “ශාන්ත ලෝරන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Slovak: “San Lawrenz”
  • Slovenian: “San Lawrenz”
  • Somali: “San Lawrenz”
  • Spanish: “San Lawrenz”
  • Swahili: “San Lawrenz”
  • Swedish: “San Lawrenz”
  • Tajik: “Сан-Лавренц”
  • Tamil: “செயின்ட் லாரன்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Лавренц”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ లారెన్స్”
  • Thai: “ซาน ลอว์เรนซ์”
  • Turkish: “Saint Lawrence”
  • Turkish: “San Lawrenz”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Лоренц”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Лоуренс”
  • Urdu: “سان لورنز”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ لارنس، مالٹا”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ لارنس”
  • Uzbek: “San Lawrenz”
  • Vietnamese: “Saint Lawrence”

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