Megara
Megara is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,000 residents
- Description: city in western Attica, Greece
- Also known as: “Μεγαρα” and “Μεγαρίς”
- Postal code: 19100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Megara and Theagenes Fountain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pachi and Nea Peramos.
Pachi
Village
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Pachi is a village, which is situated 3 km southeast of Megara.
Nea Peramos
Town
Photo: Tolisr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nea Peramos, before the 1990s Megalo Pefko, is a suburb and a former municipality in West Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Megara, of which it is a municipal unit. Nea Peramos is situated 7 km east of Megara.
Megara
Latitude
37.99659° or 37° 59′ 48″ northLongitude
23.3445° or 23° 20′ 40″ eastPopulation
23,000Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR MGROpen location code
8G95X8WV+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 154087583OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Armenian—“Megara” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሜጋራ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μέγαρα”
- Arabic: “ميغارا، أتيكي”
- Arabic: “ميغارا”
- Armenian: “Մեգարա”
- Asturian: “Megara”
- Azerbaijani: “Meqara”
- Azerbaijani: “Meqаrа”
- Basque: “Megara”
- Belarusian: “Мегары”
- Breton: “Megara”
- Bulgarian: “Мегара”
- Catalan: “Megara”
- Catalan: “Mègara”
- Cebuano: “Megara”
- Cebuano: “Mégara”
- Chinese: “迈加拉”
- Chinese: “邁加拉”
- Chinese: “墨伽拉”
- Croatian: “Megara”
- Czech: “Megara”
- Dutch: “Megara”
- Dutch: “Mégara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مى”
- Esperanto: “Megara”
- Esperanto: “Mégara”
- Esperanto: “Megaro”
- Finnish: “Megara”
- Finnish: “Mégara”
- French: “Megara”
- French: “Megare”
- French: “Mégare”
- French: “Mégaride”
- Galician: “Mégara, Grecia”
- Georgian: “მეგარა”
- German: “Megara”
- Greek: “Mégara”
- Greek: “Μέγαρα Αττικής”
- Greek: “Μέγαρα”
- Hebrew: “מגארה”
- Hebrew: “מגרה”
- Hungarian: “Megara”
- Hungarian: “Mégara”
- Ido: “Megara”
- Indonesian: “Megara”
- Italian: “Megara”
- Japanese: “メガラ”
- Korean: “메가라”
- Latin: “Megara”
- Latvian: “Megara”
- Lithuanian: “Megara”
- Macedonian: “Мегара”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Megara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Megara”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mégara”
- Norwegian: “Megara”
- Persian: “مگارا”
- Polish: “Megara”
- Portuguese: “Megara”
- Portuguese: “Mégara”
- Romanian: “Megara”
- Russian: “Мегара”
- Scots: “Megara”
- Serbian: “Megara”
- Serbian: “Μέγαρα”
- Serbian: “Мегара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Megara”
- Sicilian: “Megara Nisea”
- Sicilian: “Megara”
- Sicilian: “Migara Nisea”
- Slovak: “Megara”
- Slovak: “Megary”
- Slovenian: “Megara”
- Spanish: “Megara”
- Spanish: “Mégara”
- Spanish: “Megarense”
- Swedish: “Megara”
- Swedish: “Mégara”
- Swiss German: “Megara”
- Tamil: “மெகாரா”
- Tosk Albanian: “Megara”
- Turkish: “Megara”
- Ukrainian: “Мегара”
- Ukrainian: “Мегари”
- Urdu: “میگارا”
- Uzbek: “Megara shahri”
- Vietnamese: “Megara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Megara”
- Western Armenian: “Մեղարա”
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