Location of the country in the world & map:

Specific location:

It is situated centrally in the Mediterranean Sea, 93 km south of Sicily (Italy) and 288 km north-east of Tunisia. Gibraltar is 1,826 km to the west and Alexandria, Egypt, 1,510 km to the east.

General location:

Officially, the Republic of Malta belongs to the European Union . The Southern European island nation is an archipelago that includes the inhabited islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino, along with a number of smaller, uninhabited islands.