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Valletta

Valletta or Il-Belt is the capital of . Historically built as harbour city to first capital, Valletta preserves much of its 16th-century architectural heritage built under the Hospitallers.
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  • Type: City with 5,720 residents
  • Description: capital of Malta
  • Also known as: “Capital of Malta”, “Citta Umilissima”, “Città Umilissima”, “Il-Belt Valletta”, “La Valleta”, “La Valletta”, “Valetta”, and “Valleta”

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 , Valletta, 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 Valletta, , 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 Sliema and St. Julian’s.

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is in . 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.

Photo: Csaba Bajkó, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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, Valletta.

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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 .

Valletta

Latitude
35.899° or 35° 53′ 56″ north
Longitude
14.5137° or 14° 30′ 49″ east
Population
5,720
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
IATA airport code
MLA
United Nations Location Code
MT MLA
Open location code
8F7PVGX7+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1501909943
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2562305
Wiki­data ID
Q23800
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Valletta” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Valletta”
  • Albanian: “Kryeqyteti i maltes”
  • Albanian: “Valeta”
  • Albanian: “Valletta”
  • Amharic: “ቫሌታ”
  • Arabic: “البلد”
  • Arabic: “فاليتا”
  • Aragonese: “La Valletta”
  • Aragonese: “Valletta”
  • Armenian: “Վալետա”
  • Asturian: “La Valeta”
  • Avaric: “Валлетта”
  • Azerbaijani: “La Valletta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Valletta”
  • Balinese: “Valletta”
  • Bashkir: “Валлетта”
  • Basque: “La Valletta”
  • Basque: “Valleta”
  • Basque: “Valletta”
  • Belarusian: “Валета”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Валета”
  • Belarusian: “Ля Валета”
  • Belarusian: “Сталіца Мальты”
  • Bengali: “ভালেত্তা”
  • Bengali: “ভাল্লেত্তা”
  • Bengali: “ভ্যালেটা”
  • Betawi: “Walèta”
  • Bislama: “Valletta”
  • Bosnian: “Valletta”
  • Breton: “Valletta”
  • Bulgarian: “Валета”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Валета”
  • Burmese: “ဗယ်လက်တာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “La Valetta”
  • Catalan: “La Valletta”
  • Catalan: “Valetta”
  • Catalan: “Valletta”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Belt Valletta”
  • Cebuano: “Valletta”
  • Central Bikol: “Valletta”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤالێتا”
  • Chechen: “Валлетта”
  • Chinese: “Valletta”
  • Chinese: “法勒他”
  • Chinese: “瓦勒他”
  • Chinese: “瓦莱塔”
  • Chinese: “瓦萊塔”
  • Chinese: “華列他”
  • Chuvash: “Валлетта”
  • Corsican: “A Valetta”
  • Croatian: “Valeta”
  • Croatian: “Valletta”
  • Czech: “La Valleta”
  • Czech: “La Valletta”
  • Czech: “Valetta”
  • Czech: “Valleta”
  • Czech: “Valletta”
  • Danish: “Valletta”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Valletta”
  • Dutch: “Valetta”
  • Dutch: “Valletta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فاليتا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤاليتا”
  • Erzya: “Валлетта ош”
  • Esperanto: “La Valeto”
  • Esperanto: “La Valletta”
  • Esperanto: “La-Valeto”
  • Esperanto: “Valletta”
  • Estonian: “Valletta”
  • Extremaduran: “La Valeta”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Valletta”
  • Finnish: “La Valletta”
  • Finnish: “Valletta”
  • French: “Citta Umilissima”
  • French: “Citta‘ Umilissima”
  • French: “Il-Belt”
  • French: “La Valette”
  • French: “La Vallette”
  • French: “Valletta”
  • French: “Ville de la Valette”
  • Gagauz: “Valetta”
  • Galician: “A Valeta”
  • Galician: “Valeta”
  • Galician: “Valetta”
  • Georgian: “ვალეტა”
  • German: “Citta Umilissima”
  • German: “Città Umilissima”
  • German: “Humilissima Civitas Valletta”
  • German: “Il-Belt Valetta”
  • German: “La Valletta”
  • German: “MT-60”
  • German: “Superbissima”
  • German: “Valetta”
  • German: “Valletta”
  • Greek: “Βαλέτα”
  • Greek: “Βαλέττα”
  • Greek: “Βαλλέτα”
  • Gujarati: “વેલેટા”
  • Haitian: “La Valèt”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Valletta”
  • Hausa: “Valletta”
  • Hebrew: “ואלטה”
  • Hebrew: “ולטה”
  • Hindi: “वेलेटा”
  • Hindi: “वैलेटा”
  • Hungarian: “Il-Belt”
  • Hungarian: “La Valletta”
  • Hungarian: “Valetta”
  • Hungarian: “Valletta”
  • Icelandic: “Valletta”
  • Ido: “Valletta”
  • Indonesian: “Valetta”
  • Indonesian: “Valleta”
  • Indonesian: “Valletta”
  • Interlingua: “Valletta”
  • Interlingue: “Valletta”
  • Irish: “Il-Belt Valletta”
  • Irish: “Vaileite”
  • Italian: “La Valletta”
  • Japanese: “ヴァレッタ”
  • Japanese: “バレッタ”
  • Kabyle: “Valletta”
  • Kannada: “ವಲೆಟ್ಟ”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಲೆಟ್ಟ”
  • Kazakh: “Валлетта қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Валлетта”
  • Kirghiz: “Валлетта”
  • Komering: “Valletta”
  • Korean: “발레타”
  • Korean: “왈레따”
  • Kotava: “Valetta”
  • Kotava: “Valletta”
  • Latin: “Valetta”
  • Latin: “Valletta”
  • Latvian: “Valleta”
  • Ligurian: “A Valletta”
  • Limburgan: “Valletta”
  • Lingala: “Valetta”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Valletta”
  • Lithuanian: “Valeta”
  • Livvi: “Valletta”
  • Lombard: “La Valeta”
  • Lombard: “Valletta”
  • Low German: “Valetta”
  • Low German: “Valletta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Valletta”
  • Macedonian: “A Valeta”
  • Macedonian: “A Valletta”
  • Macedonian: “Belt Valletta”
  • Macedonian: “La Valèt”
  • Macedonian: “La Valeta”
  • Macedonian: “La Valeto”
  • Macedonian: “La Valëtta”
  • Macedonian: “La Valette”
  • Macedonian: “La Valletta”
  • Macedonian: “La-Valeto”
  • Macedonian: “Vaileite”
  • Macedonian: “Valleta”
  • Macedonian: “Valletta”
  • Macedonian: “Waleta”
  • Macedonian: “Βαλέτα”
  • Macedonian: “Валета”
  • Macedonian: “Валетта”
  • Macedonian: “Валлетта”
  • Macedonian: “Ла Валета”
  • Macedonian: “ვალეტა”
  • Macedonian: “Վալետա”
  • Macedonian: “ולטה”
  • Macedonian: “البلدة”
  • Macedonian: “فاليتا”
  • Macedonian: “والتا”
  • Macedonian: “ቫሌታ”
  • Macedonian: “व्हॅलेटा”
  • Macedonian: “ভাল্লেত্তা”
  • Macedonian: “வல்லெட்டா”
  • Macedonian: “วัลเลตตา”
  • Macedonian: “ཝ་ལེ་ཐ།”
  • Macedonian: “발레타”
  • Macedonian: “バレッタ”
  • Macedonian: “瓦莱塔”
  • Macedonian: “華列他”
  • Malagasy: “Valetta”
  • Malay: “Valletta”
  • Malayalam: “വലേറ്റ”
  • Maltese: “Belt Valletta”
  • Maltese: “Valletta”
  • Manx: “Valletta”
  • Maori: “Valletta”
  • Maori: “Whāreta”
  • Marathi: “वलेता”
  • Marathi: “व्हॅलेटा”
  • Mazanderani: “والتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Valletta”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Valletta”
  • Minangkabau: “Valletta”
  • Mingrelian: “ვალეტა”
  • Moksha: “Валлэтта”
  • Mongolian: “Валлетта”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤاليطا”
  • Nauru: “Valletta”
  • Nauru: “Walletta”
  • Nepali: “भलेट”
  • Northern Frisian: “Valletta”
  • Northern Luri: “والتا”
  • Northern Sami: “Valetta”
  • Northern Sami: “Valletta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Il-Belt Valletta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Il-Belt”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valetta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valletta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Il-Belt Valletta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valetta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valletta”
  • Norwegian: “Valletta”
  • Novial: “Valletta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Valeta”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Falletta”
  • Ossetian: “Валлеттæ”
  • Ossetian: “Валлетта”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Валлеттæ”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Валлетта”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਲੈਟਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Valletta”
  • Persian: “والتا”
  • Piemontese: “La Valëtta”
  • Polish: “La Valetta”
  • Polish: “La Valletta”
  • Polish: “Valletta”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Valletta”
  • Portuguese: “Humilissima Civitas Valletta”
  • Portuguese: “La Valetta”
  • Portuguese: “La valletta”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Valeta”
  • Portuguese: “Valeta”
  • Portuguese: “Valetta”
  • Portuguese: “Valletta”
  • Pushto: “والتا”
  • Quechua: “Valletta”
  • Romanian: “La Valletta”
  • Romanian: “Valletta”
  • Russian: “Валетта”
  • Russian: “Валлетта”
  • Russian: “Ла Валетта”
  • Russian: “Ла Валлетта”
  • Russian: “Ла-Валетта”
  • Russian: “Ла-Валлетта”
  • Samogitian: “Valeta”
  • Sardinian: “Valletta”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Valletta”
  • Scots: “Valletta”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Valletta”
  • Serbian: “Valeta”
  • Serbian: “Валета”
  • Serbian: “Ла Валета”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valletta”
  • Shona: “Valletta”
  • Sicilian: “La Valletta”
  • Sicilian: “Valletta”
  • Silesian: “Valletta”
  • Sindhi: “ويليٽا”
  • Sinhala: “වැලේටා”
  • Slovak: “Valetta”
  • Slovak: “Valletta”
  • Slovenian: “La Valeta”
  • Slovenian: “La Valletta”
  • Slovenian: “Valeta”
  • Slovenian: “Valetta”
  • Slovenian: “Valletta”
  • Somali: “Valletta”
  • Spanish: “La Valeta”
  • Spanish: “La Valetta”
  • Spanish: “La Valleta”
  • Spanish: “La Valletta”
  • Spanish: “La Vallette”
  • Spanish: “Valeta”
  • Spanish: “Valetta”
  • Spanish: “Valleta”
  • Spanish: “Valletta”
  • Swahili: “Valletta”
  • Swedish: “Valetta”
  • Swedish: “Valletta”
  • Swiss German: “Valletta”
  • Tagalog: “La Valeta”
  • Tagalog: “Valeta”
  • Tagalog: “Valletta”
  • Tajik: “Валлетта”
  • Talysh: “La Valletta”
  • Talysh: “Valletta”
  • Tamil: “வலெட்டா”
  • Tamil: “வலேட்டா”
  • Tamil: “வல்லெட்டா”
  • Tamil: “வாலெட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Валлетта”
  • Telugu: “వలెటా”
  • Telugu: “వల్లెట్టా”
  • Thai: “Valletta”
  • Thai: “วัลเลตตา”
  • Tibetan: “ཝ་ལེ་ཐ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཝ་ལེ་ཐ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Valletta”
  • Turkish: “Città Umilissima”
  • Turkish: “Il-Belt Valetta”
  • Turkish: “La Valleta”
  • Turkish: “La Valletta”
  • Turkish: “Malta’nın başkenti”
  • Turkish: “Valetta”
  • Turkish: “Valletta”
  • Turkmen: “Walletta”
  • Twi: “Valletta”
  • Udmurt: “Валлетта”
  • Ukrainian: “Валета”
  • Ukrainian: “Валетта”
  • Ukrainian: “Валлетта”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла Валетта”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Валетта”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Valletta”
  • Urdu: “البلد (مالطہ)”
  • Urdu: “البلد”
  • Urdu: “والیٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Valletta”
  • Venetian: “Ła Vałeta”
  • Veps: “Valetta”
  • Veps: “Vallett”
  • Vietnamese: “Valletta”
  • Vlaams: “Valletta”
  • Volapük: “Valletta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Valletta”
  • Welsh: “Valletta”
  • Western Frisian: “Valletta”
  • Western Panjabi: “ولیٹا”
  • Wolof: “Waleta”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦莱塔”
  • Xhosa: “Valletta”
  • Yiddish: “וואלעטא”
  • Yoruba: “Valletta”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓦萊塔”
  • Yue Chinese: “華列他”
  • Zulu: “i-Valletta”
  • “Valeta”

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