Which sea surrounds the island country of Malta?

The sea surrounding the island country of Malta is the Mediterranean Sea.

Malta lies in the central Mediterranean, about 80 kilometres south of Sicily and north of Libya. The country is an archipelago, with Malta, Gozo and Comino as its three largest inhabited islands. Its position between Europe and North Africa has made it an important location for trade, migration and naval strategy for thousands of years.

The Mediterranean is not a completely enclosed lake: it connects with the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar, with the Black Sea through the Bosporus and Dardanelles, and with the Red Sea through the Suez Canal. Malta is in the Mediterranean’s eastern basin, close to the boundary between European and North African geographic regions.

A common mix-up is the Adriatic Sea, which is also part of the wider Mediterranean but lies between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. The Black Sea and Red Sea connect to the Mediterranean system through waterways, but neither directly surrounds Malta.