Victoria

Victoria is a locality in , and has about 6,600 residents. Victoria is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
  • Type: Locality with 6,600 residents
  • Description: Capital of Gozo Island, in Malta.
  • Also known as: “Victoria Town” and “Vittoria”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of the Assumption and Gozo Museum of Archaeology.

Church
Photo: Laredawg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the of Victoria in , . The cathedral is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, and has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gozo since the formation of the diocese in 1864.

Museum
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The is a in the , the oldest part of the city, of Victoria in , . The museum of Archaeology was opened in 1960 as the first public museum in Gozo and was known as the Gozo Museum.

Church
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St George's Basilica or the Basilica and Collegiate Parish Church of Saint George, also simply known in Maltese as San Ġorġ, is a historic Baroque church situated in the middle of Gozo, the second largest island in the Maltese archipelago, and is surrounded by a maze of old narrow streets and alleys.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fontana and Kercem.

Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, as a local council, is an administrative unit of , on the island of . The population of was 1,160 in July 2024. This included 630 males and 530 females; 899 Maltese nationals and 261 foreign nationals.

Village
Photo: Sudika, Public domain.
Ta' Kerċem is a village in , in the island of , with a population of 1,938 people as of March 2014. Ta' Kerċem evolved into a village community around chapel dedicated to Pope Gregory the Great built around 1581 and replaced in 1851 by a church which was enlarged to its present state between 1906 and 1910.

Village
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an administrative unit of , which lies on the southern side of the island of . As of March 2014, its population was 1,454 people. Close to this village, there is Bay, a popular tourist resort engulfed in a fjord-like inlet amongst high cliffs.

Victoria

Latitude
36.04473° or 36° 2′ 41″ north
Longitude
14.24118° or 14° 14′ 28″ east
Population
6,600
Elevation
94 metres (308 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT VTR
Open location code
8F8P26VR+VF
Geo­Names ID
2562619
Wiki­data ID
Q20922893
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Welsh—“Victoria” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቪክቶሪያ”
  • Arabic: “فيكتوريا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Victoria”
  • Bengali: “ভিক্টোরিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Victòria”
  • Cebuano: “Victoria”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤیکتۆریا، ماڵتا”
  • Chechen: “Виктори”
  • Chinese: “維多利亞”
  • French: “Ir-Rabat”
  • German: “Victoria”
  • Hausa: “Victoria”
  • Hebrew: “ויקטוריה”
  • Hindi: “विक्टोरिया”
  • Indonesian: “Victoria”
  • Italian: “Victoria”
  • Japanese: “ヴィクトリア”
  • Javanese: “Victoria”
  • Kazakh: “Виктория”
  • Kirghiz: “Виктория”
  • Korean: “빅토리아”
  • Lithuanian: “Viktorija”
  • Malay: “Victoria”
  • Malayalam: “വിക്ടോറിയ”
  • Maltese: “Rabat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoria på Gozo”
  • Oromo: “Victoria”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਕਟੋਰੀਆ”
  • Persian: “ویکتوریا، مالت”
  • Portuguese: “Victoria”
  • Pushto: “ویکٹوریا”
  • Romanian: “Victoria”
  • Russian: “Виктория”
  • Russian: “Рабат”
  • Serbian: “Викторија”
  • Somali: “Victoria”
  • Spanish: “Victoria”
  • Swahili: “Victoria”
  • Swedish: “Victoria”
  • Tajik: “Виктория”
  • Tatar: “Виктория”
  • Turkish: “Victoria”
  • Ukrainian: “Вікторія”
  • Urdu: “وکٹوریہ، گوزو”
  • Uzbek: “Victoria”
  • Welsh: “Victoria”

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