Malta

Malta is an island country in , forming an archipelago in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, between and . Thanks to its strategic position, Malta has been continuously inhabited since prehistoric times, and conquered by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, the Sicilians, and the French, and lastly by the British in 1814.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Valletta and Mdina.
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or Il-Belt is the capital of Malta.
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is a small city in Malta and its former capital.
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is in Malta. and St Julian's are Malta's…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Malta Island and Gozo.
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Malta is an in Southern Europe.
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is an island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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is one of the islands in the Maltese Archipelago.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Stadium Ta‘ Qali and Assumption of Saint Mary.
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The National Stadium, locally also referred to as Ta'…
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The Sanctuary Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady…
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The Ta' Ħaġrat temples in Mġarr, Malta are recognized…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mosta and Rabat.
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is a small but densely populated city in the of Malta.
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is a town in the Western Region of Malta.
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is a coastal town on Malta, in the region of St.

Malta

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Latitude
35.9135° or 35° 54′ 49″ north
Longitude
14.4017° or 14° 24′ 6″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4076524861
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2562770
Wiki­data ID
Q233

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Malta” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Мальта”
  • Achinese: “Malta”
  • Afrikaans: “Malta”
  • Akan: “Mɔlta”
  • Albanian: “Malta”
  • Albanian: “Maltë”
  • Amharic: “ማልታ”
  • Amis: “Malta”
  • Angika: “माल्टा”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية مالطا”
  • Arabic: “مالطا”
  • Arabic: “مالطة”
  • Aragonese: “Malta”
  • Armenian: “Մալթա”
  • Arpitan: “Malta”
  • Assamese: “মাল্টা”
  • Asturian: “Malta”
  • Atayal: “Malta”
  • Avaric: “Мальта”
  • Awadhi: “माल्टा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Malta Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Malta”
  • Balinese: “Malta”
  • Bambara: “Malti”
  • Bashkir: “Мальта”
  • Basque: “Malta”
  • Bavarian: “Malta”
  • Belarusian: “Мальта”
  • Bengali: “মাল্টা”
  • Betawi: “Malta”
  • Bhojpuri: “माल्टा”
  • Bishnupriya: “মাল্টা মিউনিসিপিও”
  • Bishnupriya: “মাল্টা”
  • Bislama: “Malta”
  • Bislama: “Molta”
  • Bosnian: “Malta”
  • Breton: “Malta”
  • Bulgarian: “Малта”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Малта”
  • Burmese: “မောလ်တာ”
  • Burmese: “မော်လတာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Malta”
  • Catalan: “República de Malta”
  • Cebuano: “Malta”
  • Central Bikol: “Malta”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماڵتا”
  • Chamorro: “Malta”
  • Chavacano: “Malta”
  • Chechen: “Малта”
  • Chechen: “Мальта”
  • Cherokee: “ᎹᎵᏔ”
  • Chinese: “Mǎěrtā”
  • Chinese: “馬爾他”
  • Chinese: “馬耳他”
  • Chinese: “马耳他 / 馬爾他 / 馬耳他”
  • Chinese: “马耳他”
  • Church Slavic: “Малта”
  • Chuvash: “Мальта”
  • Cornish: “Malta”
  • Corsican: “Malta”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Malta”
  • Croatian: “Malta”
  • Czech: “Malta”
  • Dagbani: “Malta”
  • Danish: “Malta”
  • Dhivehi: “މޯލްޓާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Malta”
  • Dotyali: “माल्टा”
  • Dutch: “Malta”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Malta”
  • Dzongkha: “མཱོལ་ཊ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мальта”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مالطا”
  • Emilian: “Malta”
  • Erzya: “Мальта Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Malto”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Malto”
  • Estonian: “Malta saar”
  • Estonian: “Malta”
  • Ewe: “Malta nutome”
  • Ewe: “Malta”
  • Extremaduran: “Malta”
  • Faroese: “Malta”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Malta”
  • Fijian: “Melita”
  • Finnish: “Malta”
  • Finnish: “Maltan tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Republic of Malta”
  • French: “la République de Malte”
  • French: “Malte”
  • Friulian: “Malte”
  • Fulah: “Malta”
  • Fulah: “Malte”
  • Gagauz: “Malta”
  • Galician: “Malta”
  • Ganda: “Malita”
  • Ganda: “Malta”
  • Georgian: “მალტა”
  • German: “Malta”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Malta”
  • Gilaki: “مالت”
  • Goan Konkani: “Malta”
  • Goan Konkani: “माल्टा”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍄𐌰”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Μάλτας”
  • Greek: “Μάλτα”
  • Guarani: “Malta”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Malt”
  • Gujarati: “માલ્ટા”
  • Haitian: “Malt”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Malta”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mí-li-thai”
  • Hausa: “Malta”
  • Hawaiian: “Malata”
  • Hebrew: “מלטה”
  • Hindi: “माल्टा”
  • Hungarian: “Málta”
  • Hungarian: “Máltai Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Malta”
  • Ido: “Malta”
  • Igbo: “Malta”
  • Iloko: “Malta”
  • Inari Sami: “Malta täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Malta”
  • Indonesian: “Malta”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Malta”
  • Interlingua: “Malta”
  • Interlingue: “Malta”
  • Irish: “Málta”
  • Italian: “Malta”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Malta”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Malta”
  • Japanese: “マルタ”
  • Japanese: “マルタ共和国”
  • Japanese: “マルタ島”
  • Javanese: “Malta”
  • Jèrriais: “Malte”
  • Kabardian: “Малтэ”
  • Kabyle: “Malṭa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Malta”
  • Kalmyk: “Малтдин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಲ್ಟಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Malta”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Мальта”
  • Kashmiri: “مالٹا”
  • Kashubian: “Malta”
  • Kazakh: “Мальта”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាល់ត៍”
  • Kikuyu: “Malta”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Malita”
  • Kirghiz: “Мальта”
  • Komering: “Malta”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Мальта”
  • Komi: “Мальта”
  • Kongo: “Malta”
  • Korean: “몰타 공화국”
  • Korean: “몰타”
  • Kotava: “Malta”
  • Kurdish: “Malta”
  • Ladin: “Malta”
  • Ladino: “Malta”
  • Lak: “Мальта”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດມັນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດມານຕາ”
  • Lao: “ມອນທາ”
  • Latgalian: “Malta”
  • Latin: “Melita”
  • Latvian: “Malta”
  • Ligurian: “Màlta”
  • Ligurian: “Mâta”
  • Limburgan: “Malta”
  • Lingala: “Malitɛ”
  • Lingala: “Malta”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Malta”
  • Literary Chinese: “馬爾他”
  • Lithuanian: “Malta”
  • Liv: “Malta”
  • Livvi: “Mal’tu”
  • Lojban: “la maltas”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdemutu”
  • Lojban: “maltas”
  • Lombard: “Malta”
  • Low German: “Malta”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Malta”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Malite”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malta”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Malta”
  • Macedonian: “Малта”
  • Madurese: “Malta”
  • Maithili: “माल्टा”
  • Malagasy: “Malta”
  • Malay: “Malta”
  • Malay: “ملتا”
  • Malayalam: “മാൾട്ട”
  • Maltese: “Malta”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika ta’ Malta”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯥꯜꯇꯥ”
  • Manx: “Malta”
  • Manx: “Maltey”
  • Manx: “y Valta”
  • Manx: “y Valtey”
  • Manx: “Yn Valta”
  • Maori: “Mārata”
  • Marathi: “माल्टा”
  • Mazanderani: “مالت”
  • Mazanderani: “مالتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Malta”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mī-lé-dâi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Malta”
  • Minangkabau: “Malta”
  • Mingrelian: “მალტა”
  • Mirandese: “Malta”
  • Moksha: “Мальта”
  • Mongolian: “Мальта”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مالطا”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߊߟ߸ߕߌ߬ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߊߟߕ”
  • Nauru: “Marta”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼ Bineʼ Naʼadziʼnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Malta”
  • Neapolitan: “Malte”
  • Nepali: “माल्टा (देश)”
  • Nepali: “माल्टा”
  • Newari: “मल्ता”
  • Newari: “माल्टा”
  • North Ndebele: “Malta”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malta”
  • Northern Luri: “مالت”
  • Northern Sami: “Malta dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Málta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Malta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malta”
  • Norwegian: “Malta”
  • Novial: “Malta”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Malta”
  • Obolo: “Mọlita”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Malta”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܝܠܛܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Melita”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲ୍ଟା”
  • Oromo: “Mooltaa”
  • Ossetian: “Мальтæ”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “مالطه”
  • Pali: “माल्टा”
  • Pampanga: “Malta”
  • Pangasinan: “Malta”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਲਟਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Malta”
  • Persian: “مالت”
  • Picard: “Malte”
  • Piemontese: “Malta”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Marlta”
  • Polish: “Malta”
  • Polish: “Republika Malty”
  • Pontic: “Μάλτα”
  • Portuguese: “Malta”
  • Portuguese: “República de Malta”
  • Pushto: “مالټا”
  • Quechua: “Malta”
  • Romanian: “Insula Malta”
  • Romanian: “Malta”
  • Romanian: “Republica Malta”
  • Romansh: “Malta”
  • Rundi: “Malita”
  • Russia Buriat: “Мальта”
  • Russian: “Malta”
  • Russian: “Мальта”
  • Russian: “Республика Мальта”
  • Rusyn: “Малта”
  • Sakizaya: “Malta”
  • Samoan: “Malitia”
  • Samoan: “Melita”
  • Samogitian: “Malta”
  • Sango: “Mâlta”
  • Sanskrit: “माल्टा”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱞᱴᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Malta”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Malta”
  • Scots: “Maltae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Malta”
  • Serbian: “Malta”
  • Serbian: “Малта”
  • Serbian: “Република Малта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malta”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းမေႃးတႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Malta”
  • Shona: “Maruta”
  • Sicilian: “Malta”
  • Silesian: “Malta”
  • Sindhi: “مالٽا”
  • Sinhala: “මෝල්ටාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Malta tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Malta”
  • Slovak: “Malta”
  • Slovak: “Maltská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Malta”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Malta”
  • Somali: “Maalta”
  • Somali: “Malta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مالت”
  • Southern Sami: “Malta”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Malta”
  • Spanish: “Malta”
  • Spanish: “República de Malta”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Maltakondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵎⴰⵍⵟⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Malta”
  • Swahili: “Malta”
  • Swati: “IMalitha”
  • Swedish: “Malta”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Malta”
  • Swiss German: “Malta”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠣꠟ꠆ꠐꠣ”
  • Tachelhit: “Malṭa”
  • Tagalog: “Malta”
  • Tajik: “Малта”
  • Talysh: “Maltə”
  • Tamil: “மால்டா”
  • Tamil: “மால்ட்டா”
  • Taroko: “Malta”
  • Tatar: “Мальта”
  • Telugu: “మాల్టా”
  • Tetum: “Malta”
  • Thai: “ประเทศมอลตา”
  • Thai: “มอลตา”
  • Tibetan: “མལ་ཊ།”
  • Tibetan: “མལ་ཏ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ማልታ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Malita”
  • Tsonga: “Malta”
  • Tumbuka: “Malta”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “مالطا”
  • Turkish: “Malta”
  • Turkmen: “Malta”
  • Twi: “Malta”
  • Udmurt: “Мальта”
  • Uighur: “مالتا”
  • Ukrainian: “Мальта”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Malta”
  • Urdu: “مالٹا”
  • Urdu: “مالطہ”
  • Uzbek: “Malta”
  • Venetian: “Malta”
  • Veps: “Mal’t”
  • Vietnamese: “Malta”
  • Vlaams: “Malta”
  • Vlax Romani: “Malta”
  • Volapük: “Malteän”
  • Võro: “Malta”
  • Walloon: “Male”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Malta”
  • Welsh: “Malta”
  • Western Armenian: “Մալթա”
  • Western Balochi: “مالتا”
  • Western Frisian: “Malta”
  • Western Panjabi: “مالٹا”
  • Wolof: “Malt”
  • Wu Chinese: “马耳他”
  • Xhosa: “Maltha”
  • Yakut: “Мальта”
  • Yiddish: “מאַלטאַ”
  • Yoruba: “Malata”
  • Yoruba: “Máltà”
  • Yue Chinese: “Malta”
  • Yue Chinese: “Repubblika ta‘ Malta”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬爾他”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬耳他”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬耳他共和國”
  • Zeeuws: “Malta”
  • Zhuang: “Malta”
  • Zulu: “IMalta”
  • “ma Mata”
  • “Maltah”
  • “MLT”
  • “MT”

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