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Tarxien

town in Malta
Place Town Q744001

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
town
Official website
tarxienlc.gov.mt[13]

Location

Country
Malta[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.865°, 14.511°[12]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Port Region[2]
Shares border with
Luqa, Paola[4][5]

Population and size

Area
+0.9[18]
Elevation above sea level
+59[17]
Population
+8583, +10048[14][15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 8,583 · 10,048 GeoNames 8,627 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
TXN[8]
More facts +6
Part of
Port Region[9]
Capital of
Port Region[16]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Malta/Tarxien
Patron saint
Annunciation[11]
Twinned administrative body
Veliko Tarnovo, Ovindoli[6][7]
Vehicle registration plate code
M[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Tarxien ar رَحْلُ طَرْشَانَ ar رحل طرشان de MT-59 de Ħal-Tarxien de Hal-Tarxien el Τάρκσιεν fa ترزین fa Tarxien he Tarxien he טרשין hi Tarxien hi टारज़िएन it Casal Tarxen it Tarscen ja タルシーン ko 타르신 ko 타르시엔 pl Hal Tarxien pl Hal-Tarxien
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Tarxien street 20100305-1.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
8051
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--4585
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Tarxien
Freebase ID
/m/04hngc
GNS Unique Feature ID
11536202
GeoNames ID
8299757
ISO 3166-2 code
MT-59
MusicBrainz area ID
ae4f5cb0-b027-4495-80d6-3ec8460ed5ac
NL CR AUT ID
ge616505
Quora topic ID
Tarxien
SNARC ID
Arlena di Castro
Show all 14 identifiers +2
Topic's main category
Category:Tarxien
Who's on First ID
85686771
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Malta 2026-09-26 A/ADM1 · MT GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 3
Megalithic Temples of Malta, Tarxien Temples, Annunciation Church
← Twinned administrative body 3
Veliko Tarnovo, Ovindoli, Veliko Tarnovo
People born here 2
Thea Garrett, Carlo Mamo
Shares border with 2
Paola, Luqa
Twinned administrative body 2
Veliko Tarnovo, Ovindoli
← Shares border with 2
Paola, Luqa
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Tarxien
Country 1
Malta
Instance of 1
town
Patron saint 1
Annunciation
People who died here 1
Dom Mintoff
SNARC ID 1
Arlena di Castro
Topic's main category 1
Category:Tarxien
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Tarxien
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Tarxien
← Headquarters location 1
Tarxien Rainbows F.C.
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Summary

Tarxien is a town[1].

Related Entities

Arlena di Castro Dom Mintoff Malta Ovindoli

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . localgovernment.gov.mt. localgovernment.gov.mt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . localgovernment.gov.mt. Retrieved . localgovernment.gov.mt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . nso.gov.mt. nso.gov.mt. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . 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 ↗
    Official website → https://tarxienlc.gov.mt/
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Tarxien
    Population → 8,583, 10,048
    Shares border with → Luqa, Paola
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim: Population: 10,048"
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