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Mdina

Mdina is a small city in 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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  • Type: Suburb with 193 residents
  • Description: City and Local council in Western Region, Malta
  • Also known as: “Città Notabile”, “Citta Vecchia”, “Città Vecchia”, “Citta Vechia”, “L-Imdina”, “Medina Notabile”, “Melita”, “Melitta”, “Melíttē”, and “Notabile”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Stadium Ta‘ Qali and St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Stadium
Photo: D T G, Public domain.
The National Stadium, locally also referred to as Ta' Qali, officially known as Grawnd Nazzjonali, is a located in , . 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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Paul, commonly known as St Paul's Cathedral or the Mdina Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in Mdina, , dedicated to St.

Castle
Photo: Tomsen II, CC BY 3.0.
is a palace in the , limits of , . It was built in 1586 during the reign of Hugues Loubenx de Verdalle, and now serves as the official summer residence of the President of Malta.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rabat and Mosta.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the Western Region of , with a population of 11,497 as of March 2014. It adjoins the ancient capital city of Mdina, and a north-western part of was in the Roman city of Melite until its medieval retrenchment.

Photo: Felix Koenig, CC BY 3.0.
is a small but densely populated city in the of . The most prominent building in is , a large basilica built by its parishioners' volunteer labour.

Town
Photo: Alecastorina93, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a locality in the of . Together with and , it forms part of the "Three Villages" and has been inhabited since the Classical Period. is situated 3½ km east of Mdina.

Mdina

Latitude
35.8859° or 35° 53′ 9″ north
Longitude
14.4029° or 14° 24′ 10″ east
Population
193
Elevation
198 metres (650 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
MT MDI and MT RAB
Open location code
8F7PVCP3+84
Open­Street­Map ID
way 15801416
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­citywalls
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­residential
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
2562746
Wiki­data ID
Q207277
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Mdina” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المدينة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة”
  • Armenian: “Մդինա”
  • Basque: “Mdina”
  • Belarusian: “Мдзіна”
  • Belarusian: “Мдына”
  • Bengali: “মদিনা”
  • Bulgarian: “Мдина”
  • Catalan: “Mdina”
  • Cebuano: “Imdina”
  • Cebuano: “L-Imdina”
  • Central Kurdish: “قازانيا”
  • Chinese: “姆迪納”
  • Chinese: “姆迪纳”
  • Corsican: “Medina”
  • Croatian: “Mdina”
  • Czech: “Mdina”
  • Danish: “Mdina”
  • Dutch: “Mdina”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه”
  • Esperanto: “Mdina”
  • Esperanto: “Medino”
  • Extremaduran: “Mdina”
  • Finnish: “Mdina”
  • French: “Città Notabile”
  • French: “Città Vecchia”
  • French: “L-Imdina”
  • French: “Mdina”
  • French: “Melitta”
  • French: “Melíttē”
  • German: “Città Notabile”
  • German: “Città Vecchia”
  • German: “L-Imdina”
  • German: “Mdina”
  • German: “Melitta”
  • German: “Melíttē”
  • German: “MT-29”
  • Greek: “Μντίνα”
  • Gujarati: “એમડીના”
  • Hebrew: “מדינה”
  • Hindi: “एमडीना”
  • Hungarian: “Mdina”
  • Indonesian: “Mdina”
  • Irish: “Mdina”
  • Italian: “La Notabile”
  • Italian: “Mdina”
  • Italian: “Medina”
  • Japanese: “イムディーナ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಡಿನಾ”
  • Korean: “므디나”
  • Latin: “Mdina”
  • Latin: “Medina”
  • Latin: “Urbs Notabilis”
  • Latvian: “Imdina”
  • Latvian: “Mdina”
  • Lithuanian: “Mdina”
  • Lombard: “Mdina”
  • Lombard: “Medina”
  • Macedonian: “Имдина”
  • Malay: “Mdina”
  • Maltese: “Città Notabile”
  • Maltese: “Città Vecchia”
  • Maltese: “Imdina”
  • Maltese: “L-Imdina”
  • Maltese: “Mdina”
  • Marathi: “एमडीना”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مدينا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مدينة”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mdina”
  • Norwegian: “Mdina”
  • Persian: “بخش مدینا”
  • Piemontese: “Mdina”
  • Polish: “Mdina”
  • Portuguese: “Mdina”
  • Romanian: “Mdina”
  • Russian: “Мдина”
  • Scots: “Mdina”
  • Serbian: “Città Notabile”
  • Serbian: “Mdina”
  • Serbian: “Мдина”
  • Sicilian: “Mdina”
  • Sinhala: “මදිනා”
  • Slovak: “Mdina”
  • Slovenian: “Mdina”
  • Spanish: “Città Notabile”
  • Spanish: “Città Vecchia”
  • Spanish: “L-Imdina”
  • Spanish: “Mdina”
  • Spanish: “Melitta”
  • Spanish: “Melíttē”
  • Swedish: “Mdina”
  • Tamil: “மதீனா”
  • Telugu: “ఎందీనా”
  • Thai: “เอ็มดินา”
  • Turkish: “Mdina”
  • Twi: “Mdina”
  • Ukrainian: “Мдіна”
  • Urdu: “مدینہ، مالٹا”
  • Urdu: “مدینہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Mdina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mdina”
  • Welsh: “Città Notabile”
  • Welsh: “Città Vecchia”
  • Welsh: “L-Imdina”
  • Welsh: “Mdina a Rabat”
  • Welsh: “Melitta”
  • Welsh: “Melíttē”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Mdina”. Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.