"Small but beautiful." At 316 square kilometres, the archipelago is just about the size of Bremen, which also makes it one of the smallest countries in the world. Malta is an island surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, a nation and an archipelago at the same time, as the country's surface area is made up of a total of seven small islands. Four of them are completely uninhabited. It was not until 1964 that the former British colony became an independent country and in 2004 it became part of the European Union, which largely consolidated economic and political relations.

There are neither forests, nor mountains, but there are unique natural landscapes and buildings in Greek-Byzantine or Baroque style.