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With a population of about 542,000 [8] over an area of 316 km 2 (122 sq mi), [7] Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country by area [18] [19] and the ninth most densely populated. Various sources consider the country to consist of a single urban region, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] for which it is often described as a city-state .
Name Area Note/ coordinates Image Malta Island: 246 km 2 [2: 3]: Gozo (Għawdex): 67.1 km 2 [2: 3]: Comino (Kemmuna): 2.8 km 2 [2: 3]: Manoel Island (Il-Gżira Manoel): 0.3 km 2: St Paul's Islands (Il-Gżejjer ta' San Pawl): 0.101 km 2 [2: Cominotto (Kemmunett): 0.099 km 2 [4: 3]: Filfla (and Filfoletta) : 0.020 km 2 [2: Fungus Rock (Il-Ġebla tal-Ġeneral): 0.007 km 2 [2: 3]: Ħalfa Rock (Il ...
Approx. 500,000 (May 2021) Pop. density. 1,664/km 2 (4310/sq mi) Ethnic groups. Maltese people. Malta is an island in Southern Europe. It is the largest and most populous of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese Archipelago.The island is situated in the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy and north of Libya.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard [1] published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. They are the most widely used of the country codes published by ISO (the ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 – three-letter country codes which allow a better visual association between the codes and the country names than the alpha-2 codes. ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division , with the advantage of script ( writing system ...
v. t. e. 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]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Malta: 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 ...