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Manoel Island

Manoel Island, formerly known as Bishop's Island or the Isolotto, is a small island which forms part of the municipality of in , .
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island in Malta
  • Also known as: “Gzira”, “Il-Gzira ta‘ Forti Manoel”, and “Jezirah Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Manoel and National Library.

Photo: Helmut Seger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a star fort on Manoel Island in , . It was built in the 18th century by the Order of Saint John, during the reign of Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena, after whom it is named.

Library
Photo: Jastrow, CC BY 2.5.
The of Malta, often known as the Bibliotheca, is a reference library in , , Malta. It was founded by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin.

Government building
Photo: Continentaleurope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Malta located in . The building was constructed between 2011 and 2015 to designs by Renzo Piano as part of the City Gate Project, which also included building a new City Gate and converting the ruins of the into an open-air theatre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gżira and Ta’ Xbiex.

Town
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is a town in the Eastern Region of . It is located between and , also bordering on . It has a population of 11,699 as of January 2019.

Town
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Ta' Xbiex is a locality and Local Council in the Eastern Region of with a population of 2,148. It is part of a small headland within the , right between the villages of and .

Photo: Qoan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sliema is in . St. Julian's is a town in . San Gwann is a city in .

Manoel Island

Latitude
35.90336° or 35° 54′ 12″ north
Longitude
14.50227° or 14° 30′ 8″ east
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
8F7PWG32+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 127163329
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2563104
Wiki­data ID
Q949457
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Satellite Map

Discover Manoel Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Uzbek—“Manoel Island” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ishulli Manoel”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة الأسقف”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة مانويل”
  • Azerbaijani: “Manoel adası”
  • Bashkir: “Маноэль”
  • Belarusian: “Манаэль”
  • Catalan: “Illa Manoel”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Gżira ta’ Forti Manoel”
  • Chinese: “馬諾埃爾島”
  • Czech: “Manoelův ostrov”
  • Danish: “Manoel Island”
  • Dutch: “Manoel Island”
  • Dutch: “Manoel-eiland”
  • Finnish: “Manoel”
  • French: “île Manoel”
  • French: “Île Manoel”
  • French: “Manoel”
  • Georgian: “მანოელის კუნძული”
  • Hebrew: “מנואל (אי)”
  • Hebrew: “מנואל”
  • Hungarian: “Manoel-sziget”
  • Italian: “Isola Manoel”
  • Italian: “Manoel Island”
  • Latvian: “Manoela”
  • Lithuanian: “Manuelio sala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Manoel Island”
  • Macedonian: “Маноел”
  • Maltese: “Gżira Manoel”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Manoela”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Manoel”
  • Russian: “Маноэль”
  • Slovenian: “Manoelov otok”
  • Spanish: “Isla Manoel”
  • Swedish: “Il-Gżira Manoel”
  • Swedish: “Il-Gżira ta’ Forti Manoel”
  • Turkish: “Manoel Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Маноель”
  • Uzbek: “Manoel oroli”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Manoel Island Yacht Yard and Lazzaretto Ruins.

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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 “Manoel Island”. Photo: Motionlapse, CC BY-SA 4.0.