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Sliema

Sliema is in . Sliema 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Manoel Island and National Library.

Islet
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, formerly known as Bishop's Island or the Isolotto, is a small island which forms part of the municipality of in , .

Library
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The of Malta, often known as the Bibliotheca, is a reference library in , , Malta. It was founded by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin.

Church
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St John's Co-Cathedral is a Catholic co-cathedral in , , dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It was built by the Order of St. John between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the Conventual Church of Saint John.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valletta and St. Julian’s.

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

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Saint Julian's is a town in the Eastern Region of . As of 2020, its registered number of inhabitants stands at 13,792. It is situated along the coast, north of the country's capital, .

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San Ġwann is a town in the of , with a population of 14,244 as of 2021. Prior to its establishment as a distinct municipality, it was a fragmented community comprising parts of and .

Sliema

Latitude
35.9128° or 35° 54′ 46″ north
Longitude
14.5021° or 14° 30′ 8″ east
Population
16,900
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT SLM
Open location code
8F7PWG72+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1501849405
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2562501
Wiki­data ID
Q39526
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Sliema” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سليمة”
  • Armenian: “Սիլեմա”
  • Armenian: “Սլիմա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Slima”
  • Basque: “Sliema”
  • Belarusian: “Сліма”
  • Belarusian: “Сьліма”
  • Bengali: “স্লিয়েমা”
  • Bosnian: “Sliema”
  • Bulgarian: “Слима”
  • Catalan: “Sliema”
  • Cebuano: “Tas-Sliema”
  • Central Kurdish: “سلیما”
  • Chechen: “Слима”
  • Chinese: “斯利馬”
  • Chinese: “斯利马”
  • Croatian: “Sliema”
  • Czech: “Sliema”
  • Danish: “Sliema”
  • Dutch: “Sliema”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سليمه”
  • Esperanto: “Sliema”
  • Estonian: “Sliema”
  • Finnish: “Sliema”
  • French: “Sliema”
  • French: “Tas-Sliema”
  • Georgian: “სლიმა”
  • German: “Sliema”
  • Greek: “Σλιέμα”
  • Gujarati: “સ્લિએમા”
  • Hebrew: “סלימה”
  • Hindi: “स्लिमा”
  • Hungarian: “Sliema”
  • Indonesian: “Sliema”
  • Interlingue: “Sliema”
  • Irish: “Sliema”
  • Italian: “Sliema”
  • Japanese: “スリーマ”
  • Japanese: “スリエマ”
  • Japanese: “スリマ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಲೀಮಾ”
  • Korean: “슬리마”
  • Korean: “슬리에마”
  • Latin: “Cortina”
  • Latin: “Sliema”
  • Latvian: “Sliema”
  • Lithuanian: “Sliema”
  • Lithuanian: “Slima”
  • Low German: “Sliema”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sliema”
  • Macedonian: “Слима”
  • Malay: “Sliema”
  • Maltese: “Sliema”
  • Maltese: “Tas-Sliema”
  • Marathi: “स्लिमा”
  • Marathi: “स्लीमा”
  • Mingrelian: “სლიმა”
  • Northern Sami: “Sliema”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sliema”
  • Norwegian: “Sliema”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sliema”
  • Persian: “سلیما”
  • Persian: “سلیمه”
  • Polish: “Sliema”
  • Polish: “Tas-Sliema”
  • Portuguese: “Sliema”
  • Pushto: “سليمه (ښار)”
  • Pushto: “سليمه”
  • Romanian: “Sliema”
  • Russian: “Слима”
  • Serbian: “Sliema”
  • Serbian: “Слијема”
  • Serbian: “Слима”
  • Sicilian: “Sliema”
  • Silesian: “Sliema”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ලීමා”
  • Slovenian: “Sliema”
  • Spanish: “Sliema”
  • Swedish: “Sliema”
  • Swedish: “Tas-Sliema”
  • Tamil: “சலியேம”
  • Telugu: “స్లియేమా”
  • Thai: “สเลียม่า”
  • Turkish: “Sliema”
  • Twi: “Sliema”
  • Ukrainian: “Сліма”
  • Urdu: “سلیما”
  • Vietnamese: “Sliema”
  • Volapük: “Sliema”

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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 “Sliema”. Photo: Qoan, CC BY-SA 4.0.