Folegandros
Folegandros, or Pholegandros, is a small island in the Cyclades. Folegandros is a barren island with a rocky coastline and almost sheer cliffs. Main settlements are the port of Karavostasi, the capital of the island, the "Chora", built on the edge of a cliff overlooking the northern coast and the windswept village of “Ano Meria”.Photo: Pel thal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Folegandros
- Type: Locality with 667 residents
- Description: island in the Aegean Sea
- Categories: island and polis
- Location: Folegandros, Cyclades, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.6279° or 36° 37' 41" northLongitude
24.9202° or 24° 55' 13" eastPopulation
667Elevation
206 metres (676 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR FOLOpen Location Code
8G86JWHC+53GeoNames ID
262319Wikidata ID
Q213902Folegandros Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Folegandros
- Armenian: Ֆոլեղանտրոս
- Bulgarian: Фолегандрос
- Catalan: Folegandros
- Catalan: Folègandros
- Cebuano: Folégandros
- Cebuano: Nísos Folégandros
- Chinese: 福莱甘兹罗斯岛
- Chinese: 福萊甘茲羅斯島
- Chinese: 科尼幹特羅斯島
- Croatian: Folegandros
- Czech: Folegandros
- Danish: Folegandros
- Dutch: Folegandros
- Esperanto: Folegandros
- Finnish: Folégandros
- French: Folegandros
- French: Folégandros
- Galician: Folégandros - Φολέγανδρος
- Galician: Folégandros - Φολεγάνδρου
- Galician: Folégandros
- German: Folegandros
- German: Pholegandros
- Greek: Κοινότητα Φολεγάνδρου
- Greek: Φολέγανδρος
- Hungarian: Folegandrosz
- Hungarian: Folégandrosz
- Italian: Folegandros
- Italian: Pholegandros
- Italian: Policandro
- Japanese: フォレガンドロス
- Japanese: フォレガンドロス島
- Latin: Pholegandros
- Macedonian: Фолегандрос
- Norwegian: Folegandros
- Norwegian Bokmål: Folegandros
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Folegandros
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Folégandros
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Pholegandros
- Persian: فولهگاندروس
- Polish: Folegandros
- Portuguese: Folegandros
- Romanian: Folegandros
- Russian: Фолегандрос
- Serbian: Folegandros
- Serbian: Фолегандрос
- Serbo-Croatian: Folegandros
- Spanish: Folegandros
- Spanish: Folégandros
- Swedish: Folegandros
- Turkish: Bolukendire
- Ukrainian: Фолегандрос
- Vietnamese: Folegandros
- Western Armenian: Ֆոլեղանտրոս
- Yue Chinese: 科尼幹特羅斯島
- Folégandhros
- Polykandro
Other Places Named Folegandros
Localities in the Area
- ChoraVillage
- AngaliHamlet
- PetousisHamlet
- KaravostasisVillage
- Άγιος ΝικόλαοςLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Folegandros. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.