Maltese people
Maltin | |
|---|---|
Map of Maltese Diaspora | |
| Total population | |
| c.400,000–700,000[a] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Malta 404,113 | |
| Australia | 198,996 |
| Canada | 41,920 |
| United States | 40,820 (2016) |
| United Kingdom | 40,230 (Maltese-born) |
| Italy | 31,000 |
| South Africa | 1,000 |
| Germany | 1,000 |
| Turkey | ~1,000–2,000 |
| Tunisia | < 200 (many resettled in Malta after the 1950s) |
| Brazil | 123 (2024) |
| Languages | |
| Maltese English • Italian | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism | |
a The total figure is merely an estimation from all the referenced populations. | |
The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language with a substantial Romance superstratum, and share a common Maltese history and culture characterised by Roman Catholicism, which remains the state religion. Malta, an island country in the Mediterranean Sea, is an archipelago that also includes an island of the same name together with the islands of Gozo (Maltese: Għawdex) and Comino (Maltese: Kemmuna); people of Gozo, Gozitans (Maltese: Għawdxin) are considered a subgroup of the Maltese.