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Malta is the smallest country in the European Union and one of the most densely built, and its whole territory is divided into local councils (kunsilli lokali), the only tier below the state. The 68 councils cover the main island, Gozo and Comino without a gap, which is what makes the map worth learning: every village, harbour town and suburb you will see on a road sign is one of them.
The 68 local councils of today: 54 on Malta and 14 on Gozo, with Comino belonging to Għajnsielem. The names are the Maltese ones, with the letters the language adds (ħ, ġ, ż, għ), and most saints' towns are written the English way, such as Saint Paul's Bay, while San Ġwann and Santa Luċija keep their Maltese form.
The groups are drawn from the map and are not an official classification. Malta's administrative regions were redrawn in 2009 and again in 2021, so the game cuts the main island into northern, central and southern bands instead, and keeps Gozo and Comino as a group of their own. They are a way to learn the map a piece at a time.
The sizes are very uneven. Mellieħa and Rabat are large rural councils, while the councils around the Grand Harbour (Isla, Birgu, Kalkara) are a few streets wide. Those are the ones the game gives a tap area.
Mellieħa fills the island's northwest corner, facing Comino across the channel. It is the easiest anchor in the north, with Mġarr and Saint Paul's Bay to its south.
Valletta fills the tip of its peninsula, barely a kilometre across, with Floriana pressed up behind it on the landward side.
Mdina is a walled hilltop town, small enough to vanish at the size the whole country fits, and entirely surrounded by Rabat.
68, of which 54 are on the island of Malta and 14 on Gozo. Comino is part of Għajnsielem.
The regions have been redrawn twice since 2009, and the boundary data this game uses does not say which council belongs to which. The groups here are cut from the map, so they will not match an official list.
Maltese has its own letters, and English sources often drop them (Gharb for Għarb). The game keeps them, and writes the saints' towns the way English maps usually do, such as Saint Julian's and Saint Paul's Bay.
