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Paola

Paola is a town in the Port Region of , with 8,706 inhabitants as of 2019. The town is a commercial centre in the Southern Harbour area of Malta, about 5 km from the capital , contiguous to and , with which it forms a single urban area.
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  • Type: Town with 7,860 residents
  • Description: town in Malta
  • Also known as: “Paola, Malta”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Malta Island and Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum.

Photo: Csaba Bajkó, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Malta is an in Southern Europe. It is the largest and most populous of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese Archipelago and the country of .

Museum
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The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase in Maltese prehistory, located in Paola, . It is often simply referred to as the Hypogeum, literally meaning "underground" in Greek.

Protected area
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The Ħal Tarxien Prehistoric Complex is an archaeological complex in , within the Port region of . They date to approximately 3400 BC. The site was accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 along with the other Megalithic temples on the island of Malta.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valletta and Żabbar.

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or Il-Belt is the capital of . Historically built as harbour city to first capital, preserves much of its 16th-century architectural heritage built under the Hospitallers.

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Città Hompesch, is a city in the Port Region of . It is the seventh largest city in the country, with an estimated population of 15,648 as of January 2021.

Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a group of three adjacent cities in with a population of about 11,000 : Cospicua, Vittoriosa and Senglea. They are collectively also known as the Three Cities.

Paola

Latitude
35.8718° or 35° 52′ 19″ north
Longitude
14.5074° or 14° 30′ 27″ east
Population
7,860
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
Open location code
8F7PVGC4+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130898763
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8299738
Wiki­data ID
Q846589
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Paola” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الرحل الجديد”
  • Arabic: “الرَّحْلُ الجَدِيدُ”
  • Arabic: “باولا”
  • Basque: “Paola”
  • Belarusian: “Паала”
  • Bengali: “পাওলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Паола”
  • Catalan: “Paola”
  • Cebuano: “Paola”
  • Central Kurdish: “پاوۆلا”
  • Chinese: “保拉”
  • Danish: “Paola”
  • Dutch: “Paola”
  • Dutch: “Rahal Gdid”
  • Esperanto: “Paola”
  • Finnish: “Paola”
  • French: “Paola”
  • French: “Rahal il-Gdid”
  • French: “Rahal il-Ġdid”
  • French: “Raħal il-Gdid”
  • French: “Raħal il-Ġdid”
  • German: “MT-39”
  • German: “Paola”
  • German: “Pawla”
  • German: “Rahal Gdid”
  • German: “Raħal Ġdid”
  • Greek: “Πάολα”
  • Gujarati: “પાઓલા”
  • Hebrew: “פאולה”
  • Hindi: “पाओला”
  • Hungarian: “Paola”
  • Indonesian: “Paola, Malta”
  • Indonesian: “Paola”
  • Italian: “Paola”
  • Italian: “Pawla”
  • Italian: “Rahal Gdid”
  • Italian: “Raħal Ġdid”
  • Japanese: “パウラ”
  • Japanese: “パオラ (マルタ)”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾವೊಲಾ”
  • Korean: “파올라”
  • Latvian: “Paola”
  • Lithuanian: “Paola”
  • Malay: “Paola”
  • Maltese: “Paola”
  • Maltese: “Raħal Ġdid”
  • Marathi: “पावला”
  • Mingrelian: “პაოლა”
  • Northern Sami: “Paola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paola”
  • Norwegian: “Paola”
  • Persian: “پائولا”
  • Polish: “Paola”
  • Polish: “Raħal Ġdid”
  • Portuguese: “Paola”
  • Romanian: “Paola”
  • Russian: “Паола”
  • Russian: “Рахал Дждид”
  • Sicilian: “Paola”
  • Sicilian: “Pawla”
  • Sicilian: “Raħal Ġdid”
  • Silesian: “Paola”
  • Sinhala: “පඕලා”
  • Slovak: “Paola (Malta)”
  • Slovak: “Paola”
  • Spanish: “Paola”
  • Swedish: “Paola, Malta”
  • Swedish: “Paola”
  • Tamil: “பவுலா”
  • Telugu: “పావోలా”
  • Thai: “เปาลา”
  • Turkish: “Paola, Malta”
  • Turkish: “Paola”
  • Ukrainian: “Паола”
  • Urdu: “پاولا، مالٹا”
  • Urdu: “پاولا”
  • Vietnamese: “Paola”

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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 “Paola”. Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.