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Malta
Republic of Malta
Europe
ยท Southern Europe
0Population
316kmยฒ of land
$29.82KGDP / person
VallettaCapital
- ISO codes
- MT ยท MLT
- Density
- 1,591 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Maltese
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +356
- Internet domain
- .mt
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 35.8930ยฐ N, 14.4330ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Maltese
- UN region
- Southern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $14.99B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Malta stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
175th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
207th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
54th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
7th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Malta
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 502,653 people, the 175th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 15,273 of everyone alive.
Covers 316 kmยฒ, making it the 207th largest country here - roughly the size of Malta.
Population density is about 1,591 people per kmยฒ, among the most crowded countries in the world.
The capital is Valletta, at 35.90ยฐ N, 14.51ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 368,250.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Malta.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
Has 2 official languages: English and Maltese.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Malta
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UTC+02:00
Cities
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Valletta
35.8997ยฐ N, 14.5147ยฐ E
368.25K