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Birkirkara

Birkirkara

Birkirkara is a city in the Eastern Region of . It is the second most populous on the , with 24,356 inhabitants as of 2020. The town consists of five autonomous parishes: Saint Helen, Saint Joseph the Worker, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and San Gorg Preca.
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  • Type: Town with 22,200 residents
  • Description: city in Malta
  • Also known as: “B’Kara”, “BKara”, and “Casal Birchircara”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parish Church of Saint Helen and Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tal-Ħerba.

Church
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St Helen's Basilica is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church situated in Birkirkara, . It is built on the baroque design by Salvu Borg and built by Mason Domenico Cachia.

Church
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The is a Roman Catholic church in Birkirkara, , dedicated to the Nativity of Mary. It was constructed at various stages between the early 17th century and the 1920s, on the site of an earlier church which had existed since at least 1575.

Church
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The Parish Church of Saint Mary, commonly known as il-Knisja l-Qadima is a Roman Catholic in Birkirkara, , dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fleur-de-Lys and Balzan.

Hamlet
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is a suburb that forms part of Birkirkara, and is also considered a suburb of and . It lies approximately 5 kilometers from 's capital, .

Village
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is a municipality in the of , and together with and , forms part of the "Three Villages". The village originally consisted of a group of small dwellings and farms but eventually grew, becoming a parish in the 17th century.

Village
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is a small village in the Eastern Region of . Together with and , it forms part of Malta's "Three Villages". has a baroque and seven other small chapels.

Birkirkara

Latitude
35.89946° or 35° 53′ 58″ north
Longitude
14.46496° or 14° 27′ 54″ east
Population
22,200
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT BIR
Open location code
8F7PVFX7+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130878486
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2563191
Wiki­data ID
Q39583
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Birkirkara” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Birkirkara”
  • Albanian: “B’Kara”
  • Albanian: “Birkirkara”
  • Amharic: “B’Kara”
  • Amharic: “Birkirkara”
  • Amharic: “ቢርኪርካራ”
  • Arabic: “بئر كركرة”
  • Arabic: “بِئْرُ كَرْكَرَة”
  • Arabic: “بئر كيركرة”
  • Arabic: “بيركيركارا”
  • Armenian: “Բիրկիրկարա”
  • Asturian: “Birkirkara”
  • Basque: “Birkirkara”
  • Belarusian: “B’Kara”
  • Belarusian: “Birkirkara”
  • Belarusian: “Біркіркара”
  • Bengali: “B’Kara”
  • Bengali: “Birkirkara”
  • Bengali: “বিরকিরকারা”
  • Bulgarian: “B’Kara”
  • Bulgarian: “Birkirkara”
  • Bulgarian: “Биркиркара”
  • Catalan: “B’Kara”
  • Catalan: “Birkirkara”
  • Cebuano: “B’Kara”
  • Cebuano: “Birkirkara (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Birkirkara”
  • Central Kurdish: “B’Kara”
  • Central Kurdish: “Birkirkara”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیرکیرکارا”
  • Chechen: “Биркиркара”
  • Chinese: “比尔基卡拉”
  • Chinese: “比爾基卡拉”
  • Croatian: “Birkirkara”
  • Czech: “Birkirkara”
  • Danish: “B’Kara”
  • Danish: “Birkirkara”
  • Dutch: “B’Kara”
  • Dutch: “Birkirkara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “B’Kara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “Birkirkara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيركيركارا”
  • Erzya: “Биркиркара ош”
  • Esperanto: “Birkirkara”
  • Estonian: “Birkirkara”
  • Finnish: “B’Kara”
  • Finnish: “Birkirkara”
  • French: “B’Kara”
  • French: “Birkirkara”
  • German: “B’Kara”
  • German: “Birkirkara”
  • Greek: “B’Kara”
  • Greek: “Birkirkara”
  • Greek: “Μπιρκιρκάρα”
  • Gujarati: “બિર્કીરકારા”
  • Hebrew: “B’Kara”
  • Hebrew: “Birkirkara”
  • Hebrew: “בירקירקארה”
  • Hebrew: “בירקירקרה”
  • Hindi: “B’Kara”
  • Hindi: “Birkirkara”
  • Hindi: “बीरकीरकारा”
  • Hungarian: “Birkirkara”
  • Icelandic: “Birkirkara”
  • Indonesian: “B’Kara”
  • Indonesian: “Birkirkara”
  • Interlingue: “B’Kara”
  • Interlingue: “Birkirkara”
  • Irish: “B’Kara”
  • Irish: “Birkirkara”
  • Italian: “Birchircara”
  • Italian: “Birkirkara”
  • Japanese: “B’Kara”
  • Japanese: “Birkirkara”
  • Japanese: “ビルキルカラ”
  • Kannada: “B’Kara”
  • Kannada: “Birkirkara”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ಕಿರ್ಕರ”
  • Korean: “B’Kara”
  • Korean: “Birkirkara”
  • Korean: “비르키르카라”
  • Latin: “Birchircara”
  • Latvian: “B’Kara”
  • Latvian: “Birkirkara”
  • Lithuanian: “B’Kara”
  • Lithuanian: “Birkirkara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Birkirkara”
  • Malay: “B’Kara”
  • Malay: “Birkirkara”
  • Maltese: “B’Kara”
  • Maltese: “Birkirkara”
  • Marathi: “ब्रिकीरकारा”
  • Mingrelian: “B’Kara”
  • Mingrelian: “Birkirkara”
  • Mingrelian: “ბირკირკარა”
  • Northern Sami: “B’Kara”
  • Northern Sami: “Birkirkara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “B’Kara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Birkirkara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “B’Kara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birkirkara”
  • Norwegian: “Birkirkara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “B’Kara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Birkirkara”
  • Persian: “B’Kara”
  • Persian: “بیرکیرکارا”
  • Polish: “Birkirkara”
  • Portuguese: “B’Kara”
  • Portuguese: “Birkirkara”
  • Pushto: “B’Kara”
  • Pushto: “Birkirkara”
  • Pushto: “بیرکیرکارا”
  • Romanian: “B’Kara”
  • Romanian: “Birkirkara”
  • Russian: “B’Kara”
  • Russian: “Birkirkara”
  • Russian: “Биркиркара”
  • Scots: “B’Kara”
  • Scots: “Birkirkara”
  • Serbian: “B’Kara”
  • Serbian: “Birkirkara”
  • Serbian: “Биркиркара”
  • Sicilian: “B’Kara”
  • Sicilian: “Birkirkara”
  • Silesian: “Birkirkara”
  • Sinhala: “බර්කර්කරා”
  • Slovak: “B’Kara”
  • Slovak: “Birkirkara”
  • Slovenian: “B’Kara”
  • Slovenian: “Birkirkara”
  • Spanish: “B’Kara”
  • Spanish: “Birkirkara”
  • Swedish: “B’Kara”
  • Swedish: “Birkirkara”
  • Tamil: “B’Kara”
  • Tamil: “Birkirkara”
  • Tamil: “பிரகிரகரா”
  • Telugu: “B’Kara”
  • Telugu: “Birkirkara”
  • Telugu: “బికిర్కారా”
  • Thai: “B’Kara”
  • Thai: “Birkirkara”
  • Thai: “บีร์กีร์การา”
  • Turkish: “Birkirkara”
  • Ukrainian: “B’Kara”
  • Ukrainian: “Birkirkara”
  • Ukrainian: “Біркіркара”
  • Urdu: “B’Kara”
  • Urdu: “Birkirkara”
  • Urdu: “بیرکیرکارا”
  • Vietnamese: “B’Kara”
  • Vietnamese: “Birkirkara”
  • Volapük: “Birkirkara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “B’Kara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Birkirkara”
  • Wu Chinese: “比尔基卡拉”
  • “B’Kara”
  • “Birkirkara”

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