The Aegadian Islands (Italian:Isole Egadi; Sicilian: Ìsuli Ègadi, Latin:Aegates Insulae, Greek:Aegatae Nisoi, Αιγάται Νήσοι, meaning the islands of goats) are a group of five small mountainous islands in the Mediterranean Sea off the northwest coast of Sicily, Italy, near the cities of Trapani and Marsala, with a total area of 37.45 square kilometres (14.46 sq mi).