Map of Malta

Malta is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 35.9° N, 14.4° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Malta is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Malta is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Malta covers about 316 km² (122 sq mi). That makes it the 188th-largest country in the world by area and the 41st-largest in Europe, larger by area than 4 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 574,250, the 168th-largest in the world and the 39th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Malta has an average population density of about 1,817 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 39th by population and 41st by area.

The seat of government is Valletta, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are English and Maltese. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Malta carries the ISO country codes MT and MLT, dials on the international calling code +356 and uses the .mt internet domain.

Malta has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 35.9° N, 14.4° E places it about 3,989 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Europe.

The interactive map above is centred on 35.9° N, 14.4° E and opens at zoom level 10, framing Malta within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Valletta. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Malta lies about 3,989 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Malta keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are English and Maltese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +356 and websites commonly use the .mt internet domain.

In short, Malta is an island nation in Europe, with no land borders. Its capital is Valletta. Malta has a population of about 574,250 and covers around 316 km² (122 sq mi), ranking it 168th in the world by population and 188th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Malta.

The flag of Malta is composed of two equal vertical bands of white and red. A representation of the George cross edged in red is situated on the upper hoist-side corner of the white band.

The flag of Malta is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.