Europe

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

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is a small city in Malta and its former capital. The town is a joy to stroll around in: many of the alleys really give the sense that nothing has changed here for more than a millennium since the Arabs were here.

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is in Malta. and St Julian's are Malta's most modern and most built-up areas and where most tourists stay. It is where one will find the most hotels, rental apartments, restaurants, bars, shops and clubs.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Malta Island and Gozo.

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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 Malta.

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is an island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. Smaller, more remote and less built-up than Malta itself, it is a popular destination in its own right, particularly for more mature British and German couples.

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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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Stadium Ta‘ Qali and Basilica of Saint Mary.

Stadium
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The National Stadium, locally also referred to as Ta' Qali, officially known as Grawnd Nazzjonali, is a located in , Malta. The stadium, which also contains the headquarters of the Malta Football Association, seats 16,997 people and is, by far, the largest stadium in the country.

Church
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The Sanctuary Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady, commonly known as the Rotunda of Mosta or the Mosta Dome, is a Roman Catholic parish church and basilica in , Malta, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

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The are megalithic remains on the northern edge of Żebbiegħ, in the of Malta, which have provided detailed and informative insight into the earliest periods of Malta's neolithic culture.

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. The most prominent building in is , a large basilica built by its parishioners' volunteer labour.

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is a town in the Western Region of Malta, with a population of 11,497 as of March 2014. It adjoins the ancient capital city of , and a north-western part of was in the Roman city of Melite until its medieval retrenchment.

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is a coastal town on Malta, in the region of St. Paul's Bay which consists of several small towns. The town is sandwiched between Burmarrad to the south, to the east and St. Paul's Bay to the east.

Malta

Latitude
35.9135° or 35° 54′ 49″ north
Longitude
14.4017° or 14° 24′ 6″ east
Population
423,000
Area
316 km² (122 miles²)
Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.mt
Internet domain
356
IATA airport code
MLA
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4076524861
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
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: “Malta”
  • 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: “མཱལ་ཊ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Мальта”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مالطا”
  • 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”
  • Kabardian: “Малтэ”
  • Kabyle: “Malṭa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Malta”
  • Kalmyk: “Малтдин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಲ್ಟ”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “Malte”
  • Nauru: “Marta”
  • Navajo: “Táłkááʼ Bineʼ Naʼadziʼnii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Malta”
  • Nepali: “माल्टा (देश)”
  • Nepali: “माल्टा”
  • Newari: “मल्ता”
  • Newari: “माल्टा”
  • North Ndebele: “Malta”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malta”
  • Northern Luri: “مالت”
  • Northern Sami: “Malta dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Malta”
  • Northern Sami: “Málta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Malta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malta”
  • Norwegian: “Malta”
  • Novial: “Malta”
  • Obolo: “Mọlita”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Malta”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܝܠܛܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Melita”
  • Oriya: “ମାଲଟା”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Republic of 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Malta”
  • 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: “מאלטא”
  • 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: “i-Malta”
  • Zulu: “IMalta”
  • “ma Mata”
  • “Malta”
  • “Maltah”
  • “Malte”
  • “MLT”
  • “MT”
  • “माल्टा”

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