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Marsalforn

Marsalforn, also written as M'Forn for shortcut purposes, is a town on the north coast of , the second largest island of the Maltese archipelago. The town lies between the hilltop towns of and .
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  • Type: Village with 168 residents
  • Description: village in Malta
  • Also known as: “M’Forn”, “Marsa el-Forn”, and “Marsalforno”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tas-Salvatur Hill and Christ the Redeemer.

Peak
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a peak.

Memorial
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is a memorial.

Beach
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is a bay located in the northern part of , , within the limits of the village of . It is used as a bathing bay and starting point for divers.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Żebbuġ and Xaghra.

Village
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is a village and an administrative unit of , in the northwest coast of the island of . It is located close to and and is built on two hilltop plateaus, Ta' Abram and Ix-Xagħra taż-Żebbuġ.

Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Xagħra is in . It's an attractive village of 4,900 people that houses the Ġgantija temples, and is a 5-minute drive or a 30-minute walk to Ramla i Hamra beach and to Rabat, so if you don't have too much time to explore the island, this is a good place to use as a base.

Village
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is a village and an administrative unit of , in the western part of the island of , with a population of 525 people. By population, it is the smallest village in Gozo after , and the third-smallest in the Maltese Islands, after and . is situated 3½ km west of Marsalforn.

Marsalforn

Latitude
36.07089° or 36° 4′ 15″ north
Longitude
14.25981° or 14° 15′ 35″ east
Population
168
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT MSF
Open location code
8F8P37C5+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 131740645
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2562753
Wiki­data ID
Q907635
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Marsalforn” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرسى الفرن”
  • Armenian: “Մարսալֆորն”
  • Chinese: “马萨尔福恩”
  • Dutch: “Marsalforn”
  • French: “Marsalforn”
  • German: “Marsalforn”
  • Hungarian: “Marsalforn”
  • Italian: “Marsalforn”
  • Japanese: “マルサーフォン”
  • Japanese: “マルサルフォーン”
  • Maltese: “Marsalforn”
  • Polish: “Marsalforn”
  • Russian: “Марсальфорн”
  • Swedish: “Marsalforn”
  • Swedish: “Masalforn”

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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 “Marsalforn”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.