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.Photo: Stevenfruitsmaak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 19,400 residents
- Description: Greek island
- Postal code: 85300
Notable Places in the Area
Plane tree of Hippocrates
Photo: Stevenfruitsmaak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tree of Hippocrates is the plane tree under which, according to legend, Hippocrates of Kos taught his pupils the art of medicine.
Casa Romana
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Casa Romana is an archaeological site.
Roman Odeon
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roman Odeon is an archaeological site.
Localities in the Area
Kos
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Dodecanese, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.894° or 36° 53' 39" northLongitude
27.2867° or 27° 17' 12" eastPopulation
19,400Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)Open Location Code
8G89V7VP+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 28490587OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
259244Wikidata ID
Q187027Kos Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Κῶς
- Arabic: Kos
- Arabic: كوس
- Armenian: Կոս (կղզի)
- Armenian: Կոս
- Armenian: Քոս
- Asturian: Kos
- Basque: Kos
- Belarusian: Кос
- Bengali: কস
- Bosnian: Kos
- Breton: Kos
- Bulgarian: Кос
- Catalan: Cos
- Catalan: Kos
- Catalan: illa de Cos
- Cebuano: Nísos Kos
- Chinese: 科斯岛
- Chinese: 科斯島
- Croatian: Kos
- Czech: Kós
- Danish: Kos
- Dutch: Kos
- English: Cos
- English: Kos Island
- Esperanto: Koo
- Esperanto: Kos
- Estonian: Kos
- Faroese: Kos
- Finnish: Kos
- French: Cos
- French: Kos
- French: Île de Cos
- Galician: Cos, Grecia
- Galician: Cos
- Galician: Kos
- Galician: Κως
- German: Kos
- German: Kós
- Greek: Nisí Kos
- Greek: Κως (νησί)
- Greek: Κως
- Greek: Κώς
- Greek: Νήσος Κως
- Greek: Νησί Κως
- Gujarati: કોસ
- Hebrew: קוס
- Hindi: कोस
- Hungarian: Kosz
- Icelandic: Kos
- Indonesian: Kos
- Indonesian: Pulau Kos
- Interlingue: Kos
- Irish: Kos
- Italian: Coo
- Italian: Cos
- Italian: Isola di Coo
- Italian: Kos
- Japanese: コス (ギリシャ)
- Japanese: コス島
- Japanese: コース島
- Kannada: ಕೋಸ್
- Korean: 코스섬
- Latin: Coos
- Latin: Cos
- Latin: Cous
- Latvian: Kosa
- Limburgan: Kos
- Lithuanian: Kosas
- Malay: Kos
- Marathi: कोस
- Min Dong Chinese: Gŏ̤-sê̤ṳ
- Norwegian: Kos
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Coo
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Stanchio
- Norwegian Nynorsk: İstanköy
- Persian: جزیره کوس
- Persian: کوس
- Polish: Kos
- Portuguese: Cós
- Portuguese: Ilha de Cós
- Portuguese: Kos
- Romanian: Kos
- Russian: Кос
- Scots: Kos
- Serbian: Kos
- Serbian: Кос
- Serbo-Croatian: Kos
- Sinhala: කොස්
- Slovak: Kos
- Slovenian: Kos
- Spanish: Cos
- Spanish: Isla de cos
- Spanish: Kos
- Swahili: Kos
- Swedish: Kos
- Tamil: காஸ்
- Telugu: కాస్
- Thai: โกส
- Turkish: Kos
- Turkish: İstanköy
- Turkish: İstanköy Adası
- Ukrainian: Кос
- Urdu: کوس
- Uzbek: Kos
- Vietnamese: Kos
- Vietnamese: Đảo Kos
- Waray (Philippines): Kos
- Welsh: Kos
- Western Armenian: Քոս
- Western Frisian: Kos
- Wu Chinese: 科斯岛
- Istan-Keui
- Nisi Kos
Other Places Named Kos
In the Area
Kos is situated close to the hamlets Πλατεία Διαγόρα and People's Houses.
Popular Destinations in Dodecanese
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 Kos. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.