Malta
Malta (officially Republic of Malta) is a country in Southern Europe, with its capital at Valletta, and is home to roughly 568.8K people.
Its official languages are English, Maltese; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Maltese.
- »Malta is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
- »The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum and the megalithic temples predate the Egyptian pyramids.
Malta shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Tunisia (487 km), Vatican City (690 km) and Albania (761 km), measured centre to centre.
Valletta was built by the Knights of St John after the Great Siege of 1565 and is one of the smallest capital cities in Europe, walkable end to end in about twenty minutes.
326 km² (126 sq mi), 187th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Kiribati.
Population 568,847, 169th of 198 on file. That averages 1,745 per km² (4,519 per sq mi).
The George Cross in the upper hoist was awarded to the whole island by King George VI in 1942 for enduring sustained bombardment, the only national flag to carry a foreign decoration.