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Mosta

Mosta is a small but densely populated city in the of . The most prominent building in Mosta is , a large basilica built by its parishioners' volunteer labour.
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  • Type: Town with 20,200 residents
  • Description: city in Malta
  • Also known as: “Masta”
Photo: Samuele, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Stadium Ta‘ Qali and San Anton Palace.

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.

Castle
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a palace in , , that currently serves as the official residence of the president of Malta. It was originally built in the early 17th century as a country villa for Antoine de Paule, a knight of the Order of St.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Mosta, Malta, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mdina and Rabat.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

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 , and a north-western part of was in the Roman city of Melite until its medieval retrenchment.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a coastal town on , 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.

Mosta

Latitude
35.9079° or 35° 54′ 29″ north
Longitude
14.4242° or 14° 25′ 27″ east
Population
20,200
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT MOA
Open location code
8F7PWC5F+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130878149
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2562704
Wiki­data ID
Q39520
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Mosta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الموسطة”
  • Arabic: “المُوَسَّطَةُ”
  • Arabic: “موستا”
  • Armenian: “Մոստա”
  • Basque: “Mosta”
  • Belarusian: “Моста”
  • Bengali: “মোস্তা”
  • Bulgarian: “Моста”
  • Catalan: “Mosta”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Mosta”
  • Cebuano: “Mosta”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆستا”
  • Chechen: “Моста”
  • Chinese: “莫斯塔”
  • Croatian: “Mosta”
  • Czech: “Mosta”
  • Danish: “Mosta”
  • Dutch: “Mosta”
  • Esperanto: “Mosta”
  • Finnish: “Mosta”
  • French: “Mosta”
  • German: “Mosta”
  • Greek: “Μόστα”
  • Gujarati: “મોસ્ટા”
  • Hebrew: “מוסטה”
  • Hindi: “मोस्टा”
  • Hungarian: “Mosta”
  • Indonesian: “Mosta”
  • Italian: “Casal Musta”
  • Italian: “Mosta”
  • Italian: “Musta”
  • Japanese: “モスタ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೋಸ್ಟ”
  • Korean: “모스타”
  • Latin: “Mosta”
  • Latvian: “Mosta”
  • Lithuanian: “Mosta”
  • Malay: “Mosta”
  • Maltese: “Mosta”
  • Marathi: “मोस्टा”
  • Mingrelian: “მოსტა”
  • Northern Sami: “Mosta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mosta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Il-Mosta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mosta”
  • Norwegian: “Mosta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mosta”
  • Persian: “موستا”
  • Polish: “Mosta”
  • Portuguese: “Mosta”
  • Pushto: “موستا”
  • Romanian: “Mosta”
  • Russian: “Моста”
  • Sicilian: “Mosta”
  • Sinhala: “මොස්ටා”
  • Slovenian: “Mosta”
  • Spanish: “Mosta”
  • Swedish: “Mosta”
  • Tamil: “மோஸ்தா”
  • Telugu: “మోస్టా”
  • Thai: “โมสตาร์”
  • Turkish: “Mosta”
  • Ukrainian: “Моста”
  • Urdu: “موستا”
  • Vietnamese: “Mosta”
  • Volapük: “Mosta”

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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 Wikipedia page “Mosta”. Photo: Felix Koenig, CC BY 3.0.