Lying in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea between the south of Sicily and the northern tip of Africa is the archipelago of the Maltese Islands covering an area of about 320 sq km. Malta having a population of 392,000 and an area of 123 sq km, is the largest of the islands, Gozo which is the second largest has a population of 25,000, Comino which has only a few families living on it comes next. The others are uninhabited.