ABSTRACT
The Maltese Archipelago is in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Sicily and 360 kilometres (220 miles) north of Libya. It is made up of a series of tiny islands, the two inhabited ones being Malta (28.2 kilometres by 13.4 kilometres) and Gozo (14.5 kilometres by 7.2 kilometres). Their combined 1992 population was 362,000; their land area is 316 square kilometres (122 square miles).
