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Birkirkara

city in Malta
City City Q39583

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
city
Official website
birkirkaralc.gov.mt[19]
Native label
Birkirkara

Location

Country
Malta[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.900°, 14.467°[18]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Eastern Region[2]
Shares border with
Balzan, Iklin, Qormi, Santa Venera, Msida, San Ġwann, Attard[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Population and size

Area
+2.70
Elevation above sea level
+40
Population
29k (23k–29k, n=3)[20][21][22]

Codes

Local dialing code
48[17]
Postal code
BKR[14]
More facts +5
Part of
Eastern Region[15]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Malta/Birkirkara
Head of government
Wikidata item[4]
Official language
Maltese, English[5][6]
Patron saint
Helena Augusta[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en B'Kara en BKara en Birkirkara ar بِئْرُ كَرْكَرَة ar بئر كركرة da B'Kara de B'Kara el B'Kara el Birkirkara el Μπιρκιρκάρα es B'Kara fa B'Kara fa بیرکیرکارا fi B'Kara fr B'Kara he Birkirkara he B'Kara he בירקירקארה he בירקירקרה hi Birkirkara
🔖 Identifiers · 16
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Birkirkara-residencial-area.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
51313
De Agostini ID
Birkirkara
Facebook username
KunsillLokaliBirkirkara
Freebase ID
/m/030nt9
GNS Unique Feature ID
11534038
GeoNames ID
8299703
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
1868378
ISO 3166-2 code
MT-04
MusicBrainz area ID
0eaafc54-5bbe-4d56-aebc-1ecb0820bb38
OpenStreetMap relation ID
7510585
SNARC ID
cunnilingus
Show all 16 identifiers +4
SNK ID
194781
Topic's main category
Category:Birkirkara
UN/LOCODE
MTBIR
Who's on First ID
85686879

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🔗 Connections
People born here 12
Eddie Fenech Adami, Destiny Chukunyere, Anthony Mamo, Blanche Huber, Roderick Briffa, Vicente Costa, Francis George Adeodatus Micallef, Jean Zaleski +4 more
Shares border with 7
Qormi, Attard, Msida, Santa Venera, San Ġwann, Balzan, Iklin
← Shares border with 7
Qormi, Attard, Msida, Santa Venera, San Ġwann, Balzan, Iklin
Contained subdivisions 6
St Helen's Basilica, Air Atlanta Europe, St Aloysius' College, Church of St Mary, Villa Lauri, Wignacourt Arch
← Headquarters location 6
Birkirkara F.C., Lauda Europe Ltd, Simonds Farsons Cisk, European Alliance for Freedom, Air Atlanta Europe, APS Bank
People who died here 4
Paul Cremona, Blanche Huber, Francis George Adeodatus Micallef, Boris Edwards
Official language 2
English, Maltese
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Birkirkara
Country 1
Malta
Instance of 1
city
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Patron saint 1
Helena Augusta
SNARC ID 1
cunnilingus
Topic's main category 1
Category:Birkirkara
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Birkirkara
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Birkirkara
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Central Region
← Twinned administrative body 1
Longobardi
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Summary

Birkirkara is a city[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Birkirkara covers an area of 2.70 km²[23]. Birkirkara sits at an elevation of 40 m[24].

Related Entities

Anthony Mamo Attard city Eddie Fenech Adami Helena Augusta Longobardi Malta

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [2] ↑ . localgovernment.gov.mt. Retrieved . localgovernment.gov.mt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . localgovernment.gov.mt. Retrieved . localgovernment.gov.mt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . nso.gov.mt. nso.gov.mt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · ThomasPusch · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → 23,034, 24,356, 29,482
    Nighttime view → Church of the Madonna tal-Ħerba, 9.jpg
    ISO 3166-2 code → MT-04
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Birkirkara
    + 37 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim: Population: 29,482"
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