Malta
Malta is an island country forming an archipelago in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Positioned between Sicily and North Africa, the country is the smallest member of the European Union by population, with only half a million people, but also by area, making it the fourth most densely-populated country in the world while being the tenth smallest.Popular Destinations
Malta Island
Malta is the largest of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese archipelago. Photo: Csaba Bajkó, CC BY-SA 2.0.Valletta
Valletta or Il-Belt is the capital of Malta. A harbour city, Valletta preserves much of its 16th-century architectural heritage built under the Hospitallers. Photo: Thyes, Public domain.Gozo
Gozo is an island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: Wusel007, CC BY-SA 3.0.Notable Places in the Area
Skorba Temples
Tourist attraction
The Skorba temples are megalithic remains on the northern edge of Żebbiegħ, in Malta, which have provided detailed and informative insight into the earliest periods of Malta's neolithic culture. Photo: Ed89, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ta' Ħaġrat Temples
Archaeological site
The Ta' Ħaġrat temples in Mġarr, Malta is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with several other Megalithic temples. Photo: Ed88, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mosta Dome
Church
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 Minor Basilica in Mosta, Malta, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. Photo: Väsk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Pawl Milqi
Archaeological site
San Pawl Milqi is the ruin of a Roman-period agricultural villa and a pagan temple, the most extensive to have ever been unearthed in Malta. Photo: Nitramserolf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Localities in the Area
Mdina
Mdina, also known by its titles Città Vecchia or Città Notabile, is a fortified city in the Northern Region of Malta which served as the island's capital from antiquity to the medieval period. Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.Mosta
Mosta is a small but densely populated city in the Northern Region of Malta. Photo: Felix Koenig, CC BY 3.0.Rabat
Rabat is a town in the Northern Region of Malta, with a population of 11,497 as of March 2014. Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.Malta
- Type: Country
- Description: sovereign state in Southern Europe situated on an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea
- Categories: sovereign state, island nation, unitary state and Mediterranean country
- Location: Europe
- Languages: Maltese and English
- Neighbors: Italy
Latitude 35.9135° or 35° 54' 48.6" north | Longitude 14.4017° or 14° 24' 6.1" east |
Population 423,000 | IATA airport code MLA |
Elevation 96 metres (315 feet) | Capital Valletta |
Area 316 km² (122 miles²) | Currency Euro (EUR) |
Phone code 356 | Internet domain .mt |
OpenStreetMap ID node 4076524861 | GeoNames ID 2562770 |
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Malṭa
- Achinese: Malta
- Afar: Malta
- Afrikaans: Malta
- Akan: Malta
- Akan: Mɔlta
- Albanian: Malta
- Albanian: Maltë
- Amharic: ማልታ
- Arabic: Malta
- Arabic: مالطا
- Arabic: مالطة
- Aragonese: Malta
- Armenian: Մալթա
- Arpitan: Malta
- Asturian: Malta
- Avaric: Malta
- Avaric: Мальта
- Awadhi: माल्टा
- Azerbaijani: Malta
- Balinese: Malta
- Bambara: Malti
- Bashkir: Мальта
- Basque: Malta
- Bavarian: Malta
- Belarusian: Мальта
- Bengali: মাল্টা
- Bhojpuri: माल्टा
- Bishnupriya: মাল্টা
- Bishnupriya: মাল্টা মিউনিসিপিও
- Bislama: Malta
- Bosnian: Malta
- Breton: Malta
- Bulgarian: Малта
- Bulgarian: Република Малта
- 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: Malta
- Chinese: 馬爾他
- Chinese: 馬耳他
- Chinese: 马耳他
- Church Slavic: Малта
- Chuvash: Мальта
- Cornish: Malta
- Corsican: Malta
- Crimean Tatar: Malta
- Croatian: Malta
- Czech: Malta
- Danish: Malta
- Dhivehi: މޯލްޓާ
- Dimli (individual language): Malta
- Dotyali: माल्टा
- Dutch: MLT
- Dutch: MT
- Dutch: Malta
- Eastern Mari: Мальта
- Egyptian Arabic: مالطا
- English: MLT
- English: Malta Island
- English: Republic of Malta
- English: mt
- English: 🇲🇹
- Erzya: Мальта Мастор
- Esperanto: MLT
- Esperanto: MT
- Esperanto: Malto
- Esperanto: Respubliko Malto
- Estonian: Malta
- Estonian: Malta saar
- Ewe: Malta
- Ewe: Malta nutome
- Extremaduran: Malta
- Faroese: Malta
- Fiji Hindi: Malta
- Finnish: Malta
- Finnish: Maltan tasavalta
- Finnish: Republic of Malta
- French: MT
- French: Malte
- French: la République de Malte
- Friulian: Malte
- Fulah: Malta
- Fulah: Malte
- Gagauz: Malta
- Galician: Malta
- Ganda: Malita
- Georgian: მალტა
- German: Malta
- 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: Malata
- Hausa: Malta
- Hawaiian: Malata
- Hebrew: מלטה
- Hindi: माल्टा
- Hungarian: Málta
- Hungarian: Máltai Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Malta
- Ido: Malta
- Igbo: Malta
- Iloko: Malta
- Inari Sami: Malta
- Inari Sami: Malta täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Malta
- Indonesian: Pulau Malta
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): 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
- Kashubian: Malta
- Kazakh: Мальта
- Khmer: ម៉ាល់តា
- Kikuyu: Malta
- Kinyarwanda: Malita
- Kirghiz: Мальта
- Komi-Permyak: Мальта
- Komi: Мальта
- Kongo: Malta
- Korean: 몰타
- Kotava: Malta
- Kurdish: Malta
- Kurdish: ماڵتا
- Ladin: Malta
- Ladino: Malta
- Lak: Мальта
- Lao: MT
- Lao: Malta
- Lao: ປະເທດມັນ
- Lao: ປະເທດມານຕາ
- Lao: ມັນຕາ
- Latgalian: Malta
- Latin: Melita
- Latvian: Malta
- Ligurian: Malta
- Limburgan: Malta
- Lingala: Malitɛ
- Lingala: Malta
- Lingua Franca Nova: Malta
- Literary Chinese: 馬爾他
- Lithuanian: MT
- 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: MT
- Luxembourgish: Malta
- Macedo-Romanian: Malta
- Macedonian: Малта
- Madurese: Malta
- Maithili: माल्टा
- Malagasy: Malta
- Malay: Malta
- Malayalam: മാള്ട്ട
- Malayalam: മാൾട്ട
- Maltese: Malta
- Maltese: Repubblika ta’ Malta
- Manx: Yn Valta
- Maori: Mārata
- Marathi: माल्टा
- Mazanderani: مالت
- Min Dong Chinese: Malta
- Min Dong Chinese: Mī-lé-dâi
- Min Nan Chinese: Malta
- Mingrelian: მალტა
- Mirandese: Malta
- Mongolian: Мальта
- Moroccan Arabic: مالطا
- Narom: Malte
- Nauru: Marta
- Neapolitan: Malta
- Nepali: माल्टा (देश)
- Nepali: माल्टा
- Newari: मल्ता
- North Ndebele: Malta
- Northern Frisian: Malta
- Northern Luri: مالت
- Northern Sami: Malta
- Northern Sami: Malta dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Málta
- Norwegian: Malta
- Norwegian Bokmål: Malta
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Malta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Malta
- Novial: Malta
- Occitan (post 1500): Malta
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܡܝܠܛܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Melita
- Oriya: ମାଲଟା
- Oriya: ମାଲ୍ଟା
- Oromo: Mooltaa
- Ossetian: Мальтæ
- Pali: माल्टा
- Pampanga: Malta
- Pangasinan: Malta
- Panjabi: ਮਾਲਟਾ
- Papiamento: Malta
- Persian: مالت
- Picard: Malte
- Piemontese: Malta
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Marlta
- Polish: Malta
- 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
- Sicilian: Malta
- Silesian: Malta
- Sindhi: مالٽا
- Sinhala: මෝල්ටාව
- Skolt Sami: Malta
- Skolt Sami: Malta tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Malta
- Slovenian: Malta
- Somali: Maalda
- Somali: Malta
- South Azerbaijani: مالت
- Southern Sami: Malta
- Spanish: Isla de Malta
- Spanish: MLT
- Spanish: MT
- Spanish: Malta
- Spanish: República de Malta
- Sranan Tongo: Maltakondre
- Sundanese: Malta
- Swahili: Malta
- Swati: IMalitha
- Swedish: Malta
- Swedish: Republic of Malta
- Swedish: Republiken Malta
- Swiss German: Malta
- Tagalog: Malta
- Tajik: Малта
- Tamil: மால்டா
- Tamil: மால்ட்டா
- 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
- Uzbek: Malta
- Venetian: Malta
- Veps: Mal't
- Vietnamese: Malta
- Vietnamese: Man-ta
- 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
- Yakut: Мальта
- Yiddish: מאלטא
- Yoruba: Máltà
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Malata
- 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
- Zulu: i-Malta
- Mâta
- State of Malta
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