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  2. Malta - Wikipedia

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    Malta and its demonym Maltese are attested in English from the late 16th century. [49] English Bible translations including the 1611 King James Version long used the Vulgate Latin form Melita, although the 1525 Tyndale Bible used the transliteration Melite instead. Malta is widely used in more recent versions. [50]

  3. Districts of Malta - Wikipedia

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    Statistical Districts of Malta. Note: indexed here as 6, Gozo and Comino is a Statistical Region in its own right. Malta is for non-local government purposes divided into districts as opposed to the local government regions at the same level.

  4. Malta (island) - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. List of World Heritage Sites in Malta - Wikipedia

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    Sites in Malta were first inscribed on the list at the 4th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Paris, France, in 1980. At that session, all three current sites were added to the list: the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum , City of Valletta , and Ġgantija Temples.

  6. Tourism in Malta - Wikipedia

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    Malta is a nation of just under 450,000 people, [24] yet its infrastructure is required to support 2.6 million tourists every year. Malta's water works, roads, waste management systems and beaches are stretched to capacity in the summer months of July and August of every year, when tourism numbers are at their peak.

  7. Outline of Malta - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Demographics of Malta - Wikipedia

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    Since the late 20th century, Malta has become a transit country for migration routes from Africa towards Europe. [15] As a member of the European Union and of the Schengen agreement, Malta is bound by the Dublin Regulation to process all claims for asylum by those asylum seekers that enter EU territory for the first time in Malta. [16]

  9. Mosta - Wikipedia

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    The Feast of the Assumption is held on 15 August and it is a public holiday in Malta. From its inception as a parish in 1608, Mosta has had three different churches built on the same site, [6] with the current one being designed by Giorgio Grognet de Vassé, a French resident of Mosta.