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Il-Munxar

Munxar

Munxar 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.
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  • Type: Village with 1,450 residents
  • Description: local council of Malta
  • Also known as: “Munshar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint George’s Basilica and Gozo Museum of Archaeology.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
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
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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sannat and Fontana.

Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an administrative unit of , on the island of , with a population of 2,117 people. Ta' is in the south of Gozo, popular for its very high cliffs, ancient cart ruts, temples and dolmens, and rich fauna and flora.

Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, as a local council, is an administrative unit of , on the island of , with a population of 985 people.

Village
Photo: Sudika, Public domain.
Ta' is a village in , in the island of , with a population of 1,938 people as of March 2014. Ta' 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.

Munxar

Latitude
36.03067° or 36° 1′ 50″ north
Longitude
14.23479° or 14° 14′ 5″ east
Population
1,450
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT MUN
Open location code
8F8P26JM+7W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3898922157
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2562693
Wiki­data ID
Q587462
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Munxar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المنشار”
  • Basque: “Munxar”
  • Bengali: “মুনক্সার”
  • Catalan: “Munxar”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Munxar (munisipyo sa Malta)”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Munxar”
  • Chinese: “蒙沙尔”
  • Chinese: “蒙沙爾”
  • Danish: “Munxar”
  • Dutch: “Munxar”
  • Esperanto: “Munxar”
  • Finnish: “Munxar”
  • French: “Il-Munxar”
  • French: “Munxar”
  • German: “Munxar”
  • Greek: “Μουνκσάρ”
  • Gujarati: “મુન્ક્સર”
  • Hindi: “मुन्क्सार”
  • Hungarian: “Munxar”
  • Indonesian: “Munxar”
  • Italian: “Monsciar”
  • Italian: “Munxar”
  • Japanese: “ムンシー”
  • Kannada: “ಮುನ್ಸಾರ್”
  • Korean: “문샤르”
  • Latvian: “Munšara”
  • Lithuanian: “Munšaras”
  • Malay: “Munxar”
  • Maltese: “Munxar”
  • Marathi: “मुंजार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Munxar”
  • Persian: “مونکسار”
  • Polish: “Munxar”
  • Portuguese: “Munxar”
  • Russian: “Муншар”
  • Sicilian: “Munxar”
  • Sinhala: “මුන්ක්සාර්”
  • Spanish: “Munxar”
  • Swedish: “Il-Munxar”
  • Tamil: “முன்க்ஸார்”
  • Telugu: “ముంక్సార్”
  • Thai: “เขตโอโรเมีย”
  • Turkish: “Munxar”
  • Ukrainian: “Муншар”
  • Urdu: “مونشار”
  • Vietnamese: “Munxar”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Munxar”. Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.