Greece
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Kefalonia

Sami

Sami is a town and a municipality on the island of , , . Since the 2019 local government reform it is one of the three municipalities on the island.
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  • Type: Town with 2,340 residents
  • Description: town on Kefalonia, Greece
  • Also known as: “Aigialós”, “Aiyialós”, “Sami, Cephalonia”, “Samos”, and “Yialós”
  • Postal code: 28080

Places of Interest

Highlights include Melissani lake cave and Drogarati Cave.

Cave
Photo: Matt Sims, CC BY 2.0.
Melissani Cave or Melissani Lake, also Melisani is a cave and cenote located on the island of Kefalonia, northwest of Sami, about 5 km Southeast of , Northeast of and Northwest of Poros.

Cave
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is situated 3 km southwest of Sami.

Seaside resort
Photo: Sztudva Gyöngyi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a seaside resort, which is situated 2½ km northeast of Sami.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karavomylos and Poulata.

Village
Photo: Fæ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a fishing village and a community in the municipal unit of Sami, on the island of , . It is situated on the coast, 2km west of Sami, 6km southeast of and 15km northeast of .

Village
Photo: Poulata, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 4 km southwest of Sami.

Village
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is a village on the east coast of the island of Kefalonia in . It was the seat of the former Pylaros municipality. It is a traditional fishing village centred on a small harbour. is situated 7 km northwest of Sami.

Sami

Latitude
38.25111° or 38° 15′ 4″ north
Longitude
20.64671° or 20° 38′ 48″ east
Population
2,340
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR SAI
Open location code
8GC27J2W+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 506700079
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
254123
Wiki­data ID
Q1021651
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sami” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سامي، كيفالينيا”
  • Arabic: “سامي”
  • Catalan: “Sami”
  • Cebuano: “Sámi”
  • Chinese: “萨米”
  • Dutch: “Sami”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سامى”
  • Finnish: “Sami”
  • Finnish: “Sámi”
  • French: “Sami”
  • German: “Sami”
  • Greek: “Γιαλός”
  • Greek: “Σάμη Κεφαλλονιάς”
  • Greek: “Σάμη”
  • Irish: “Sami”
  • Italian: “Municipio di Sami”
  • Italian: “Porto di Sami”
  • Italian: “Sami”
  • Japanese: “サミ”
  • Narom: “Sami”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sámi”
  • Russian: “Сами”
  • Serbian: “Sami”
  • Serbian: “Сами”
  • Swedish: “Sámi”
  • Ukrainian: “Самі (Кефалонія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Самі”

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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 “Sami”. Photo: Abfab27, Public domain.