Macedonia
Macedonia is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and second-most-populous geographic region in Greece, with a population of 2.36 million.Photo: Ωριγένης, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Thessaloniki
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Thessaloniki is the capital of the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the whole historical region of Macedonia, Greece, and is, at about one million inhabitants, the second largest city in the country.
Mount Athos
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Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Kavala
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Kavala is a city in Macedonia. Kavala is one of the most beautiful smaller cities in Greece offering a wide range of places of interest for tourism.
Destinations
Chalkidiki
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Chalkidiki is one of the main tourist areas of Greece.
Kozani
Kozani is a city with a population of just over 70,000 in northern Greece, capital of West Macedonia periphery, between Thessaloniki and Ioannina.Prespa
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The Lake Prespa is located on the tripoint of Albania, Greece, and North Macedonia.
Serres
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Sérres is a city in Macedonia, Greece. It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km northeast of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki.
Kastoria
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Kastoria is a city in northern Greece in the region of Western Macedonia.
Florina
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Florina is a town of fewer than 20,000 people in West Macedonia, northern in Greece.
Edessa
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Edessa, until 1923 Vodena, is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the Pella regional unit, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece.
Drama
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Drama is a city and municipality in Macedonia, northeastern Greece.
Veria
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Veria is a town of Central Macedonia and the capital of the County of Imathia.
Vergina
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Vergina is a village in the prefecture of Imathia, Region of Central Macedonia, Northern Greece.
Amphipolis
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Amphipolis was an important ancient Greek polis, and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen.
Ptolemaida
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Ptolemaida is a town and a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.
Naousa
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Naousa, officially The Heroic City of Naousa is a city in the Imathia regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece.
Litochoro
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Litochoro is a town in Pieria region, Macedonia, Northern Greece.
Pangaion Hills
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Pangaio is a municipality in the Kavala regional unit, Macedonian Greece, named after the Pangaion hills.
Nestos
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National Park of Nestos Delta and lakes Vistonida-Ismarida is in East Macedonia in northern Greece.
Platamonas
Platamon, or Platamonas, is a town and sea-side resort in south Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece.Aridea
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Aridaía is a town and a former municipality in the Pella regional unit, Greece.
Pella
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Pella is a municipality in the Pella regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece.
Macedonia
- Type: region with 2,380,000 residents
- Description: geographic and administrative region of Greece
- Category: historical region
- Location: Northern Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of centre
40.65° or 40° 39' northLongitude of centre
22.4° or 22° 24' eastPopulation
2,380,000Wikidata ID
Q81734Macedonia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Masedonië
- Albanian: Maqedonia
- Albanian: Maqedonia e Egjeut
- Arabic: Macedonia, Gresya
- Arabic: مقدونيا
- Armenian: Մակեդոնիա
- Asturian: Macedonia
- Azerbaijani: Yunanıstan Makedoniyası
- Bashkir: Македония (Греция)
- Bashkir: Македония
- Basque: Mazedonia
- Belarusian: Македонія
- Bengali: Μακεδονία
- Bengali: প্রজাতন্ত্রী মেসিডোনিয়া
- Bengali: মাসেডোনিয়া
- Bengali: মেসিডোনিয়া
- Bengali: ম্যাসিডোনিয়া
- Bengali: ম্যাসেডোনিয়া
- Bosnian: Egejska Makedonija
- Bosnian: Makedonija
- Breton: Makedonia
- Bulgarian: Беломорска Македония
- Bulgarian: Гръцка Македония
- Bulgarian: Егейска Македония
- Bulgarian: Южна Македония
- Catalan: Macedònia
- Catalan: Macedònia Grega
- Central Kurdish: مەقدۆنیا
- Chinese: 馬其頓尼亞
- Chinese: 马其顿
- Chinese: 马其顿区
- Chinese: 马其顿大区
- Croatian: Egejska Makedonija
- Croatian: Makedonija
- Czech: Makedonie
- Danish: Græsk Makedonien
- Danish: Makedonien
- Dimli (individual language): Makedonya
- Dutch: Macedonië
- English: Greek Macedonia
- English: Macedonia (Greek region)
- English: Makedhonía
- Esperanto: Greka Makedonujo
- Esperanto: Makedonio
- Esperanto: Makedonujo
- Estonian: Makedoonia
- Finnish: Makedonia
- French: Macedoine egeenne
- French: Macedoine grecque
- French: Macédoine
- French: Macédoine Egéénne
- French: Macédoine grecque
- French: Macédoine égéenne
- Galician: Macedonia, Grecia
- Galician: Macedonia-Μακεδονία
- Galician: Macedonia - Μακεδονία
- Galician: Macedonia Exea
- Galician: Macedonia grega
- Georgian: მაკედონია
- German: Makedonien
- German: Ägäis-Makedonien
- German: Ägäis-Mazedonien
- Greek: Ελληνική Μακεδονία
- Greek: Μακεδονία
- Hebrew: מקדוניה היוונית
- Indonesian: Makedonia (Yunani)
- Irish: An Mhacadóin Ghréagach
- Italian: Macedonia
- Italian: Macedonia greca
- Japanese: エーゲ・マケドニア
- Japanese: マケドニア
- Korean: 그리스령 마케도니아
- Korean: 마케도니아
- Kurdish: Makedonya
- Latin: Macedonia
- Latin: Macedonia Graeca
- Latvian: Maķedonija
- Latvian: Maķedonijas reģions
- Lithuanian: Egėjo Makedonija
- Lithuanian: Graikijos Makedonija
- Lithuanian: Makedonija
- Low German: Makedonien
- Luxembourgish: Griichesch Makedonien
- Luxembourgish: Makedonien
- Macedo-Romanian: Machedonia
- Macedo-Romanian: Machedonia Gãrtseascã
- Macedo-Romanian: Makedonia Gãrtseascã
- Macedonian: Беломорска Македонија
- Macedonian: Егејска Македонија
- Malagasy: Makedônia (Gresy)
- Malagasy: Makedônia
- Malay: Makedonia, Yunani
- Mingrelian: მაკედონია (საბერძნეთი)
- Mingrelian: მაკედონია
- Norwegian: Makedonia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gresk Makedonia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Makedonia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gresk Makedonia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Makedonia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Makedonia i Hellas
- Occitan (post 1500): Macedònia
- Occitan (post 1500): Macedònia grèca
- Occitan (post 1500): Macedònia grèga
- Persian: مقدونیه (یونان)
- Persian: مقدونیه
- Polish: Macedonia
- Polish: Macedonia Egejska
- Polish: Macedonia Grecka
- Pontic: Μακεδονία
- Portuguese: Macedónia
- Portuguese: Macedónia grega
- Portuguese: Macedônia
- Portuguese: Macedônia (Grécia)
- Romanian: Macedonia
- Romanian: Macedonia egeeană
- Romanian: Macedonia grecească
- Russian: Беломорская Македония
- Russian: Греческая Македония
- Russian: Македония
- Russian: Эгейская Македония
- Samogitian: Makedonėjė
- Samogitian: Makeduonėjė
- Serbian: Egejska Makedonija
- Serbian: Егејска Македонија
- Serbian: Македонија
- Serbo-Croatian: Egejska Makedonija
- Serbo-Croatian: Makedonija
- Sicilian: Macedonia
- Sicilian: Macidonia
- Slovak: Makedonia
- Slovak: Makedónia
- Slovenian: Makedonija
- Slovenian: grška Makedonija
- Spanish: Macedonia
- Spanish: Macedonia griega
- Swedish: Egeiska Makedonien
- Swedish: Grekiska Makedonien
- Swedish: Makedonien
- Swiss German: Makedonie
- Thai: มาซิโดเนีย
- Tosk Albanian: Makedonien
- Turkish: Ege Makedonyası
- Turkish: Güney Makedonya
- Turkish: Makedonya
- Turkish: Merkez Makedonya
- Ukrainian: Грецька Македонія
- Ukrainian: Егейська Македонія
- Ukrainian: Македонія
- Urdu: مقدونیہ
- Venetian: Macedònia
- Veps: Grekanman Makedonii
- Veps: Makedonii
- Vietnamese: Macedonia
- Vietnamese: Makedonia
- Vietnamese: Makedonía
- Waray (Philippines): Macedonia, Gresya
- Welsh: Macedonia
- Western Armenian: Մակետոնիա
- Western Armenian: Յունաստանի Մակեդոնիոյ Շրջան
- Western Frisian: Masedoanje (Grikelân)
- Western Frisian: Masedoanje
- Western Panjabi: مقدونیا
- Western Panjabi: مقدونیہ
- Wu Chinese: 马其顿 (希腊)
- Yue Chinese: 馬其頓尼亞
- 马其顿(希腊)
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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 Wikipdia page Macedonia. Photo: Heuschrecke, CC BY-SA 3.0.