Naxos
Naxos, commonly referred to as Chora, is a city and a former municipality on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades, Greece. The community has 8,897 inhabitants.
- Type: Town with 7,070 residents
- Description: chief town of Naxos island, Cyclades, Greece
- Also known as: “Chora Naxou”, “Náxia”, and “Naxos City”
- Postal code: 84300
Places of Interest
Highlights: Archaeological Museum of Naxos and Metropolitan Catholic Church Presentation of Christ.
Metropolitan Catholic Church Presentation of Christ
Cathedral
Metropolitan Catholic Church Presentation of Christ is a cathedral.
Portara
The Temple of Apollo, or Portara, was an ancient Greek temple in Naxos, dedicated to the god Apollo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agios Prokopios and Glinado.
Agios Prokopios
Village
Glinado
Village
Glynado is a community on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades, Greece. Glinado is situated 4 km southeast of Naxos.
Naxos
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Small Cyclades, Cyclades, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.10207° or 37° 6′ 8″ north
Longitude
25.37625° or 25° 22′ 35″ east
Population
7,070
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
IATA airport code
JNX
UN/LOCODE
GR JNX
Open location code
8G97492G+RF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Naxos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ناكسوس (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “ناكسوس”
- Armenian: “Նաքսոս”
- Asturian: “Naxos (city)”
- Catalan: “Naxos”
- Cebuano: “Naxos”
- Chinese: “纳克索斯”
- Croatian: “Naksos”
- Czech: “Naxos”
- Dutch: “Naxos”
- Estonian: “Náxos”
- Finnish: “Náxos (kaupunki)”
- Finnish: “Naxos”
- French: “Naxos”
- French: “Náxos”
- German: “Chora”
- German: “Naxos”
- Greek: “Νάξος”
- Greek: “Χώρα Νάξου”
- Greek: “Χώρα”
- Hebrew: “נקסוס”
- Italian: “Nasso”
- Japanese: “ナクソス”
- Korean: “낙소스”
- Latin: “Naxos”
- Lithuanian: “Naksas”
- Persian: “ناکسوس (شهر)”
- Persian: “ناکسوس”
- Polish: “Naksos (miasto)”
- Polish: “Naksos”
- Portuguese: “Naxos”
- Romanian: “Naxos”
- Russian: “Наксос”
- Serbian: “Наксос”
- Slovenian: “Naxos”
- Spanish: “Naxos”
- Swedish: “Naxos”
- Turkish: “Nakşa (şehir)”
- Turkish: “Nakşa”
- Ukrainian: “Наксос”
- “Νάξος”
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