EU-023 Malta group

Malta known as the Republic of Malta, is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya.] With a population of about 475,000 over an area of 316 km2 (122 sq mi),[ Malta is the world's tenth smallest and fifth most densely populated country