Samos
Samos is a port town on the island of Samos in Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit of Samos and of the municipality of East Samos. It is also known by its old name of Vathy, though this now usually refers to the old hillside suburb of Ano Vathy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,240 residents
- Description: Greek town on the Samos island
- Also known as: “Kato Vathy” and “Vathy”
- Historically known as: “Liman Vathéos”, “Limén Vathéos”, “Limenas Vatheos”, “Limín Vathéos”, “Port Vathi”, “Vathi”, and “Vathy harbor”
- Postal code: 83100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Vathi at Samos and Agios Spyridonas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vathy and Mytilinioi.
Vathy
Town
Photo: Pe-sa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vathy is a community and a former municipality on the island of Samos, North Aegean, Greece. Since 2019, it has been a municipal unit of the municipality of East Samos.
Mytilinioi
Town
Photo: Pstelios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mytilinioi is a town, which is situated 7 km southwest of Samos.
Kokkari
Village
Photo: Pe-sa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kokkari is a village on the island of Samos, Greece, about 10 kilometres from the capital city, Samos. Kokkari is situated 8 km west of Samos.
Samos
- Category: locality
- Location: Samos, Samos Prefecture, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.75762° or 37° 45′ 27″ northLongitude
26.97274° or 26° 58′ 22″ eastPopulation
6,240Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
8G98QX5F+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 275563673OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
254115Wikidata ID
Q1018150
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Samos” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Samos”
- Azerbaijani: “Samos (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Samos”
- Belarusian: “Самас”
- Bulgarian: “Самос”
- Catalan: “Samos”
- Cebuano: “Sámos”
- Dutch: “Samos”
- Estonian: “Sámos”
- Finnish: “Sámos”
- French: “Kato Vathi”
- French: “Kato Vathý”
- French: “Káto Vathý”
- French: “Liménas Vathéos”
- French: “Samos”
- French: “Sámos”
- German: “Kato Vathy”
- German: “Samos”
- Greek: “Sámos”
- Greek: “Κάτω Βαθύ”
- Greek: “Λιμένας Βαθέος” (historical)
- Greek: “Λιμήν Βαθέος” (historical)
- Greek: “Σάμος (πόλη)”
- Greek: “Σάμος”
- Latin: “Samos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sámos by”
- Persian: “ساموس (شهر)”
- Persian: “ساموس”
- Polish: “Samos”
- Russian: “Самос”
- Serbian: “Самос”
- Sicilian: “Samu”
- Slovak: “Samos”
- Slovenian: “Samos”
- Swedish: “Sámos”
- Turkish: “Samos (şehir)”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Samos”. Photo: Dybdal, Public domain.