Skyros
Skyros is an island in the southern Sporades Islands of Greece. The main town is also named Skyros, but is known locally as the Chora, as are the main towns on numerous other Greek islands.Photo: Han borg, Public domain.
Skyros
- Type: Island
- Description: Greek island in the Aegean Sea
- Categories: polis and landform
- Location: Euboea, Central Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.8576° or 38° 51' 27" northLongitude
24.5679° or 24° 34' 4" eastElevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
SKUOpen Location Code
8GC6VH59+25GeoNames ID
253613Wikidata ID
Q208566Skyros Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Skiroi
- Albanian: Skyros
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Σκῦρος
- Arabic: سكيروس
- Armenian: Սկիրոս
- Armenian: Սքիրոս
- Belarusian: Скірас
- Bulgarian: Скирос
- Catalan: Esciros
- Catalan: Skiros
- Cebuano: Nísos Skýros
- Chinese: 斯基罗斯岛
- Chinese: 斯基羅斯島
- Czech: Skyros
- Danish: Skiros
- Danish: Skíros
- Dutch: Skyros
- Dutch: Skýros
- Estonian: Skýrose saar
- Finnish: Skýros
- French: Scyros
- French: Skyros
- French: Skýros
- Galician: Esciro-Σκῦρος
- Galician: Esciro - Σκῦρος
- Galician: Esciro
- Galician: Esciros
- Georgian: სკიროსი
- German: Skyros
- Greek: Nisí Skýros
- Greek: Νήσος Σκύρος
- Greek: Νησί Σκύρος
- Greek: Σκύρος
- Hebrew: סקירוס
- Hungarian: Szkírosz
- Indonesian: Skyros
- Irish: Scíros
- Italian: Sciro
- Italian: Skyros
- Japanese: スカイロス
- Japanese: スカイロス島
- Japanese: スキュロス
- Japanese: スキュロス島
- Japanese: スキューロス島
- Japanese: スキロス
- Japanese: スキロス島
- Korean: 스키로스섬
- Kurdish: Skîros
- Latin: Scyros
- Latin: Scyrus
- Lithuanian: Skiras
- Macedonian: Скирос
- Norwegian: Skiros
- Norwegian Bokmål: Skiros
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Skyros
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Skýros
- Polish: Skiros
- Polish: Skyros
- Portuguese: Ciros
- Portuguese: Esquiro
- Portuguese: Skyros
- Portuguese: Skíros
- Romanian: Skyros
- Russian: Скирос
- Serbian: Skiros
- Serbian: Скирос
- Serbo-Croatian: Skiros
- Serbo-Croatian: Skyros
- Slovak: Skýros
- Spanish: Esciros
- Spanish: Scyros
- Spanish: Skiros
- Spanish: Skyros
- Swedish: Skyros
- Tamil: ஸ்கைரஸ்
- Thai: Skyros
- Thai: สไกรอส
- Thai: เกาะสไกรอส
- Turkish: Skiros
- Turkish: Skyros
- Turkish: İskiri
- Ukrainian: Скірос
- Vietnamese: Skyros
- Vietnamese: Đảo Skyros
- Western Armenian: Սքիրոս (կղզի)
- Nisi Skyros
- Nísos Skíros
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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 Skyros. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.