How many people live in Tarxien?

About 8,627 people, according to the GeoNames dataset this page draws on. Population figures for smaller places are estimates and can be out of date.

What time zone is Tarxien in?

Tarxien uses the Europe/Malta time zone.

What is near Tarxien?

The nearest town or city is Valletta, about 4 km away — Tarxien lies south of it.

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Tarxien

Ta’ Xbiex • Malta

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Tarxien is a town in Ta’ Xbiex, Malta. It has a population of about 8,627 and an elevation of 62 m. It is on Central European Time. It lies 3.8 km south of Valletta. Its nearest neighbours are Fgura (0.5 km), Santa Luċija (0.7 km), and Paola (1.7 km).

Time zone: Europe/Malta
Coordinates: 35.8656, 14.5151
Population: 8,627
Elevation: 62 m

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What happens, step by step

1Find your business, or add it. Both are free.
2Fill in your page — photos, hours, what you do.
3Create an offer. Free to make, free to run.
4TimTim shows it to people exploring this place.
5A curator recommends it to people who trust them.
6An ambassador shares it with the community.
7A customer taps the link — and the tap is counted.
8They claim or redeem the offer.
9The sale is verified before anything else happens.
10Revenue is attributed to whoever helped.
11Your dashboard updates.
12Only then does TimTim's agreed fee apply.

Example figures — not real, and not from Tarxien

People who saw the page: 310
People who saw the offer: 182
Curator recommendations: 3
Shares by ambassadors: 7
Taps on the offer: 64
Offers claimed: 41
Redeemed in person: 28
Verified sales: $1,240

In this example TimTim's agreed fee is 10% of verified sales — so $124 of the $1,240, and the business keeps $1,116.

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How much is known about here

15%of what we hope to know about Tarxien

Place facts100%
Local names0%
Nearby places100%
Music0%
Local knowledge0%
Memories0%
Places to go0%

Almost nothing is recorded about Tarxien yet, so anything you add here counts for 2× what it would in a well-documented city. The places the internet ignores are the ones worth writing down.

Questions about Tarxien

Where is Tarxien?: Tarxien is a town in Ta’ Xbiex, Malta.
How many people live in Tarxien?: About 8,627 people, according to the GeoNames dataset this page draws on. Population figures for smaller places are estimates and can be out of date.
What time zone is Tarxien in?: Tarxien uses the Europe/Malta time zone.
What are the coordinates of Tarxien?: 35.8656, 14.5151.
What is near Tarxien?: The nearest town or city is Valletta, about 4 km away — Tarxien lies south of it.

Languages in Tarxien

This page is written in English. These are the languages spoken here — the ones we can already show you are links.

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Your Tarxien Discovery Passport

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What you can do for Tarxien

Everything below is worth 2× here, because almost nothing is known about this place yet. The emptier a place, the more a contribution to it is worth.

Anyone can do these, right now

Collect this place's stamp
It goes in your passport.
+2
Send a musical postcard from here
+4
Share a song from here with someone
Worth more once they actually listen.
+10
Check a neighbour's contribution
Checks are what publish anything.
+40

If you know Tarxien

These are what the page is missing. Every one of them waits for 2 neighbours to confirm it before it appears — and before it pays.

Share a memory of this place
What it was like. Nobody can add this but the people who were here.
+50
Add something only a local would know
The place people go, the thing visitors never find.
+50
Tell us about music from here
The songs, the players, the rhythms that belong to this place.
+50
Add somewhere to eat, drink or hear music
Somewhere real, that someone here would actually recommend.
+50
Tell us how this place's name is really said
The local name, and how to say it.
+30

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Tarxien through the years

Nobody has shared a memory of Tarxien yet. Every decade below is still empty — if you were here for any of them, you know something this page does not.

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1960sWere you here in the 1960s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
1950sWere you here in the 1950s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.
1940sWere you here in the 1940s? Nobody has spoken for it yet.

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