Flag of Malta

🎨 What the flag means

Malta's flag is half white and half red. A famous story says a Norman count gave Malta these colours in 1091, but historians think the story is a myth; the colours probably come from the Knights of Malta. In the top corner is the George Cross, a medal King George VI gave to the people of Malta in 1942 for their courage.

📊 Quick facts

👥 Population

553.2 thousand (2023)

🏙️ Capital

Valletta5.2 thousand people (2021)

🗣️ Main language

MalteseAlso official: English

✨ 3 fun facts

1. Malta's Ġgantija temples are among the oldest free-standing buildings in the world, built even before the Egyptian pyramids.
2. Malta has many small islands, but people live on only three of them: Malta, Gozo and Comino.
3. The Maltese language is related to Arabic, but it is written with a 30-letter alphabet based on Latin letters.