By the usual standards that most other countries use when designating a city, Malta's cities would be too small to be considered such, and in fact Malta is sometimes regarded as a single city-state.
根据大多数其他国家在指定城市时使用的通常标准，马耳他的城市太小而不能被认为城市，事实上马耳他有时被认为是一个单一的城邦。