Dodecanese
The Dodecanese are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited.Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Kos
Kos is a popular tourist destination in the Greek islands of the Dodecanese, located in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea, near the Turkish coast.
Rhodes
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Rhodes is the largest settlement and capital city of the island of the same name.
Patmos
Patmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, one of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex.
Destinations
Rhodes
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Rhodes is one of the largest and most fertile of the Greek Islands, and is one of the most visited because of its combination of beaches, archaeological sites, and extensive medieval town.
Karpathos
Karpathos is an island in the Dodecanese. It is situated between the islands of Rhodes and Crete. map of Karpathos island…
Kalymnos
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Kalymnos is an island in the Dodecanese group of the South Aegean Islands of Greece.
Symi
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Symi, also transliterated as Syme or Simi, is a Greek island and municipality.
Kasos
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Kasos, also Casos, is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese.
Leros
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Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea.
Astypalaia
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Astypalaia is an island in the Dodecanese. It is shaped like a butterfly, with the two wings joined by a narrow strip of land.
Halki
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Halki is a small island in the Dodecanese region of the Greek Islands, close to the far busier island of Rhodes.
Agathonisi
Agathonísi is a small Greek island and municipality located at the northernmost point of the Dodecanese in Greece.
Dodecanese
- Type: island group with 189,000 residents
- Description: group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea
- Location: South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
36.8433° or 36° 50' 36" northLongitude of centre
27.1481° or 27° 8' 53" eastPopulation
189,000Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)GeoNames ID
263021Wikidata ID
Q131555Dodecanese Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Dodekanese
- Afrikaans: Dodekanesos
- Albanian: Dodekanes
- Albanian: Dodekanezi
- Arabic: Dodekanesa
- Arabic: دوديكانيسيا
- Arabic: ذوذيكانيسيا
- Armenian: Դոդեկանես
- Armenian: Տոտեքանիսա
- Asturian: Archipiélagu del Dodecanesu
- Basque: Dodekaneso
- Basque: Dodekanesoko uhartedia
- Belarusian: Дадэканес
- Belarusian: Паўднёвыя Спарады
- Breton: Dodekanesa
- Bulgarian: Додеканези
- Bulgarian: Додеканезки острови
- Bulgarian: Южни Споради
- Catalan: Dodecanès
- Catalan: Dodecanés
- Catalan: Dodekànisa
- Catalan: On Iki Ada
- Cebuano: Nomós Dodekanísou
- Chinese: 佐則卡尼薩群島
- Chinese: 佐泽卡尼索斯群岛
- Chinese: 佐澤卡尼索斯
- Chinese: 佐澤卡尼索斯群島
- Chinese: 十二群島
- Chinese: 多得坎尼群岛
- Chinese: 多德卡尼斯
- Chinese: 多德卡尼斯群島
- Chinese: 多德坎尼斯群岛
- Chinese: 杜德卡內斯
- Corsican: Dudicanesu
- Croatian: Dodekanez
- Czech: Dodekaneské ostrovy
- Czech: Dodekanské ostrovy
- Czech: Dodekany
- Czech: Dodekanés
- Czech: Dodekanésos
- Danish: Dodekaneserne
- Danish: Dodekanesiske Øer
- Dutch: Dodecanese
- Dutch: Dodecanesos
- Dutch: Dodecanesus
- Dutch: Dodekanese
- Dutch: Dodekanesos
- Dutch: Dodekanisos
- Dutch: Dodekánesos
- Dutch: Dodekánisos
- Egyptian Arabic: دوديكانيس
- Esperanto: Dodekaneso
- Esperanto: Dodekanesoj
- Esperanto: Dodekanezo
- Esperanto: Dodekanoj
- Estonian: Dodekaneesid
- Faroese: Dodekanes
- Finnish: Dodekanesia
- Finnish: Dodekanesian saaret
- Finnish: Dodekanesian saaristo
- French: Dodecanese
- French: Dodecanèse
- French: Dodécanese
- French: Dodécanèse
- Galician: Dodecaneso - Δωδεκάνησα
- Galician: Dodecaneso
- Georgian: დოდეკანესის კუნძულები
- German: Dodekanes
- German: Dodekanisos
- German: GR-81
- Greek: Dímos Ko
- Greek: Δήμος Κω
- Greek: Δωδεκάνησα
- Greek: Δωδεκάνησος
- Greek: Κως
- Greek: Νομός Δωδεκανήσου
- Hebrew: דודקאנס
- Hebrew: דודקנז
- Hebrew: דודקנס
- Hebrew: האיים הדודקאנסיים
- Hebrew: האיים הדודקנסים
- Hebrew: האיים הדוקדנסיים
- Hungarian: Dodekanészosz
- Icelandic: Tylftareyjar
- Indonesian: Dodekanisa
- Indonesian: Δωδεκάνησα
- Irish: Na hOileáin Dhóideacanacha
- Italian: Dodecaneso
- Italian: Dodecanneso
- Italian: Isole del Dodecaneso
- Japanese: ドデカニサ
- Japanese: ドデカニサ諸島
- Japanese: ドデカニーズ諸島
- Japanese: ドデカネス
- Japanese: ドデカネス県
- Japanese: ドデカネス諸島
- Japanese: ドデカネーズ
- Japanese: ドデカネーズ諸島
- Japanese: ドデカネーゼ
- Japanese: ドデカネーゼ諸島
- Korean: 도데카네스
- Korean: 도데카네스 제도
- Korean: 도데카니사
- Korean: 도데카니사 제도
- Korean: 도데카니사 주
- Korean: 도데카니사 현
- Korean: 도데카니소스
- Latin: Dodecanesos
- Latin: Dodecanesus
- Latvian: Dodekanesa
- Lithuanian: Dodekanesas
- Macedonian: Додеканези
- Malay: Dodecanese
- Malay: Dodekanisa
- Mazanderani: دودکانیس
- Narom: Dodécanèse
- Northern Frisian: Dodekanes
- Norwegian: Dodekanesene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dodekanesene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dodekanesiske øyer
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Dodekanesane
- Persian: دودکانس
- Persian: دودکانسا
- Polish: Dodekanez
- Portuguese: Dodecaneso
- Romanian: Arhipelagul Dodecanez
- Romanian: Dodecanez
- Romanian: Insulele dodecaneze
- Russian: Додеканезские острова
- Russian: Додеканес
- Russian: Додеканесские острова
- Russian: Спорады Южные
- Russian: Южные Спорады
- Scots: Dodecanese
- Serbian: Dodekanez
- Serbian: Δωδεκάνησα
- Serbian: Додеканез
- Serbian: Додекани
- Serbian: Додоканези
- Serbian: Префектура Додеканез
- Serbian: Префектура Додекани
- Serbo-Croatian: Dodekanez
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Dodekani
- Sicilian: Dodecannesu
- Slovak: Dodekaneské ostrovy
- Slovak: Dodekanesos
- Slovak: Dodekanezos
- Slovak: Dodekanisa
- Slovak: Dodekanisos
- Slovak: Dodekanské ostrovy
- Slovak: Dodekanéske ostrovy
- Slovak: Dodekanésos
- Slovak: Dodekanéz
- Slovak: Dodekanézske ostrovy
- Slovak: Dodekanézy
- Slovenian: Dodekanez
- Spanish: Archipielago del Dodecaneso
- Spanish: Archipiélago del Dodecaneso
- Spanish: Dodecaneso
- Spanish: Islas del Dodecaneso
- Swedish: Dodekaneiska öarna
- Swedish: Dodekaneserna
- Swedish: Dodekanesos
- Swedish: Dodekanisos
- Swedish: Tolvöarna
- Thai: Dodecanese
- Thai: หมู่เกาะโดเดคะนีส
- Thai: โดเดคะนีส
- Turkish: 12 Ada
- Turkish: 12 Adalar
- Turkish: Nero Island
- Turkish: Oniki Ada
- Turkish: Oniki Adalar
- Turkish: Onikiada
- Turkish: On İki Ada
- Ukrainian: Додеканес
- Ukrainian: Додеканеські острови
- Ukrainian: Південні Споради
- Urdu: Dodecanese
- Urdu: جزائر دؤدیکانیز
- Urdu: جزائر ڈوڈکینیز
- Urdu: ڈوڈکینیز
- Vietnamese: Dodecanese
- Vietnamese: Dodekanisa
- Vietnamese: Dodekánisa
- Vietnamese: Quần đảo Dodecanese
- Waray (Philippines): Dodekanesa
- Welsh: Dodecanese
- Western Armenian: Տոտեքանիսա
- Western Panjabi: جزائر ڈوکینیز
- Wu Chinese: 十二群岛
- Yue Chinese: 十二群島
- Dhodhekánisos
- Nomos Dodecanese
- Nomós Dhodhekanísou
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