Samos
Samos is an island in the North Aegean Sea and one of the East Aegean Islands. Its capital is the town of Samos, formerly known as Vathi. The Samians still call their capital Vathi instead of Samos.Photo: Pe-sa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ancaeus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Samos
- Type: Locality with 34,000 residents
- Description: Greek island in Aegean Sea
- Categories: island and polis
- Location: Samos Prefecture, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.7335° or 37° 44' 1" northLongitude
26.811° or 26° 48' 40" eastPopulation
34,000Elevation
507 metres (1,663 feet)Open Location Code
8G98PRM6+99GeoNames ID
8133749Wikidata ID
Q156882Samos Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Samos
- Albanian: Samosi
- Arabic: Samos
- Arabic: ساموس
- Armenian: Սամոս
- Balinese: Samos
- Basque: Samos
- Basque: Samos uhartea
- Belarusian: Самас
- Breton: Samos
- Bulgarian: Самос
- Catalan: Prefectura de Samos
- Catalan: Samos
- Catalan: Sisam
- Cebuano: Nísos Sámos
- Central Kurdish: ساموس
- Chinese: 萨摩斯岛
- Chinese: 薩摩斯島
- Croatian: Sam
- Croatian: Samos
- Czech: Samos
- Danish: Samos
- Dimli (individual language): Samos
- Dutch: Samos
- Dutch: Sámos
- Esperanto: Samos
- Esperanto: Samoso
- Estonian: Samos
- Estonian: Samose saar
- Estonian: Sámose saar
- Faroese: Samos
- Finnish: Samos
- Finnish: Sámos
- French: Samien
- French: Samos
- French: Samé
- Galician: Illa de Samos
- Galician: Samos
- Galician: illa de Samos
- Galician: Σάμος
- Georgian: სამოსი
- German: Samos
- German: Sámos
- Greek: Σάμιοι
- Greek: Σάμος
- Greek: Σάμου
- Hebrew: סאמוס
- Hebrew: סמוס
- Hindi: समोस
- Hungarian: Számosz
- Icelandic: Samos
- Indonesian: Pulau Samos
- Indonesian: Samos
- Irish: Samas
- Italian: Isola di Samo
- Italian: Samo
- Japanese: サモス島
- Korean: 사모스
- Korean: 사모스섬
- Latin: Samos
- Latin: Samus
- Latvian: Sama
- Ligurian: Samo
- Lithuanian: Samas
- Lower Sorbian: Samos
- Luxembourgish: Samos
- Macedonian: Самос
- Min Dong Chinese: Sák-mò̤
- Norwegian: Samos
- Norwegian Bokmål: Samos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Samos
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sámos
- Occitan (post 1500): Samos
- Persian: ساموس
- Polish: Samos
- Portuguese: Ilha de samos
- Portuguese: Samos
- Romanian: Insulele Samos
- Romanian: Samos
- Russian: Самос
- Scots: Samos
- Serbian: Samos
- Serbian: Острво Самос
- Serbian: Сам
- Serbian: Самос
- Serbo-Croatian: Otok Samos
- Serbo-Croatian: Samos
- Sicilian: Samos
- Sicilian: Samu
- Slovak: Samos
- Slovenian: Samos
- Spanish: Samos
- Spanish: Unidad periferica de Samos
- Spanish: Unidad periférica de Samos
- Swahili: Samos
- Swedish: Samos
- Tamil: சாமோஸ்
- Thai: ซาโมส
- Turkish: Samos
- Turkish: Sisam
- Ukrainian: Самос
- Upper Sorbian: Samos
- Urdu: ساموس
- Vietnamese: Samos
- Waray (Philippines): Samos
- Welsh: Samos
- Western Armenian: Սամոս
- Wu Chinese: 萨摩斯岛
- Dimos Samos
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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 Samos. Photo: Ancaeus, CC BY-SA 4.0.