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Chinatowns in Europe; Chinatowns in Oceania. Chinatowns in Australia This page was last edited on 11 August 2024, at 13:22 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The oldest Chinatown in Europe is in Liverpool, England. [2] It was established in the early 19th century when Liverpool began importing cotton and silk from Shanghai. In the 1910s, Mainland Chinese labourers from the Zhejiang province who remained in France established the first Chinatown of Paris.
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Malta is located east of its sister islands of Gozo and Comino. It lies on the Malta plateau, a shallow shelf formed from the high points of a land bridge between Sicily and North Africa that became isolated as sea levels rose after the last ice age. [5] Malta is therefore situated in the zone between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. [6]
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Malta is subdivided into 6 regions (Maltese: reġjuni). Three regions were originally created by the Local Councils Act of 1993, and were integrated into the constitution in 2001. [1] [better source needed] Two of the regions were split into smaller ones by Act No. XVI of 2009, and Malta was divided into five regions. [2]
Malta is a small and densely populated sovereign island nation located in Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea. [1] Malta comprises an archipelago of seven islands, of which the three largest are inhabited. Malta is located 93 km (58 mi) south of Sicily, and 288 km (179 mi) north of North Africa, giving the country a warm, Mediterranean climate. [2]
Malta is classified as an advanced economy according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [186] Malta's major resources are limestone, a favourable geographic location and a productive labour force. Malta produces only about 20 percent of its food needs, has limited fresh water supplies because of the drought in the summer, and has no ...