Malta (mlt)

Malta

Malta ranks 3,742nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Franklin, Tennessee, Živinice, and Ypres. Memorable people born in Malta include Edward de Bono, Frans Sammut, and Saint Publius. Memorable people who died in Malta include Dragut, Jean Parisot de Valette, and Edward de Bono. Malta has been the birth place of many philosophers, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Malta is located in Malta.

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya. The two official languages are Maltese and English. The country's capital is Valletta, which is the smallest capital city in the EU by both area and population. With a population of about 542,000 over an area of 316 km2 (122 sq mi), Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country by area and the ninth most densely populated. Various sources consider the country to consist of a single urban region, for which it is often described as a city-state. Read more on Wikipedia