Comino
Comino is one of the islands in the Maltese Archipelago. It is the smallest inhabited island of the Maltese islands with a grand total of 3 permanent inhabitants, as well as a hotel which caters mostly for overseas visitors on all-inclusive package tours.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Maltese island
- Also known as: “Kemmuna” and “Lampas”
- Historically known as: “Ephaestia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cominotto and Ħalfa Rock.
Cominotto
Islet
Cominotto, sometimes referred to as Cominetto, is an uninhabited Mediterranean island off the northern coast of Gozo, Malta. It is located near the eponymous larger island of Comino and is part of the Maltese archipelago.
Ħalfa Rock
Islet
Photo: Zugraga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ħalfa Rock is a deserted small islet and limestone rock on the south-east coast of the island of Gozo in the Maltese archipelago. The islet is typified by a small maritime labiate garrigue environment, with germander and prasium shrubs, with the occurrence…
Ħondoq ir-Rummien
Beach
Ħondoq ir-Rummien ("Pomegranate Moat", the coastline below the village of Qala, Gozo, Malta is dotted with traditional salt pans, some of which are still actively used to harvest salt throughout the summer months.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qala and Mġarr.
Qala
Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qala is an administrative unit of Malta, on the island of Gozo, with a population of 1,929 as of September 2019. Nearby is Ħondoq ir-Rummien, a coastline with salt pans and caves.
Comino
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Għajnsielem, Gozo, Malta, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.0119° or 36° 0′ 43″ northLongitude
14.3366° or 14° 20′ 12″ eastPopulation
10Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)IATA airport code
JCOUnited Nations Location Code
MT JCOOpen location code
8F8P286P+QJOpenStreetMap ID
way 23465078OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Comino” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كمونة”
- Armenian: “Կոմինո”
- Azerbaijani: “Komino”
- Basque: “Comino”
- Bavarian: “Comino”
- Bavarian: “Kemmuna”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Каміна”
- Belarusian: “Каміна”
- Belarusian: “Каміно”
- Belarusian: “Коміна”
- Bosnian: “Kemmuna”
- Catalan: “Comino”
- Catalan: “Cominotto”
- Catalan: “Hefèstia”
- Cebuano: “Kemmuna”
- Chinese: “科米诺岛”
- Chinese: “科米諾島”
- Croatian: “Comino”
- Czech: “Comino”
- Danish: “Comino”
- Danish: “Kemmuna”
- Dutch: “Comino”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كمونه”
- Esperanto: “Comino”
- Finnish: “Comino”
- Finnish: “Kemmuna”
- French: “Comino”
- Georgian: “კომინო”
- German: “Comino”
- German: “Kemmuna”
- Greek: “Κομίνο”
- Hebrew: “קומינו”
- Hungarian: “Comino”
- Indonesian: “Comino”
- Irish: “Kemmuna”
- Italian: “Comino”
- Italian: “Kemmuna”
- Japanese: “コミノ島”
- Korean: “코미노”
- Korean: “코미노섬”
- Latin: “Ephestia”
- Latin: “Hephaestia”
- Latvian: “Komino”
- Limburgan: “Comino”
- Lithuanian: “Comino”
- Lithuanian: “Kemuna”
- Lithuanian: “Kominas”
- Lithuanian: “Komino sala”
- Luxembourgish: “Comino”
- Macedonian: “Комино”
- Maltese: “Kemmuna”
- Marathi: “कोमिनो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Comino”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Comino”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kemmuna”
- Norwegian: “Comino”
- Persian: “کمینو”
- Polish: “Comino”
- Polish: “Kemmuna”
- Portuguese: “Comino”
- Romanian: “Comino”
- Romanian: “Insula Comino”
- Russian: “Комино”
- Scots: “Comino”
- Serbian: “Komino”
- Serbian: “Комино”
- Sicilian: “Comino”
- Sicilian: “Cumminu”
- Silesian: “Comino”
- Silesian: “Kemmuna”
- Slovak: “Comino”
- Slovenian: “Comino”
- Slovenian: “Kemmuna”
- Spanish: “Comino”
- Swedish: “Comino”
- Swedish: “Kemmuna”
- Thai: “เกาะโกมีโน”
- Turkish: “Comino”
- Ukrainian: “Коміно”
- Uzbek: “Jomino”
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