Pwales is a settlement in St. Paul's Bay,

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

. The area was named for its marsh land, being a valley, and comes from the Latin word ''palus'' that means wetland. It is home to

Is-Simar Nature Reserve Simar Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Pwales Valley, in Xemxija, St Paul's Bay, Malta. An artificial wetland habitat was created in the 1990s by BirdLife Malta volunteers in an area of abandoned marshland. The reserve lies within the Is-Sim ...

, a number of farmhouses, and a church. The wetland zone was eventually named P.Wales during the British rule after the Prince of Wales. Oblivious of what P.Wales stood for, the Maltese pronounced the name as Pwales and has been known so, since.

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Populated places in Malta St. Paul's Bay {{Malta-geo-stub