Kos

Kos or Cos is a island, part of the island chain in the southeastern . Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese, after and ; it has a population of 37,089, making it the second most populous of the Dodecanese after Rhodes.
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  • Type: Locality with 19,200 residents
  • Description: city on the homonymous island in Aegean Sea, Greece
  • Also known as: “Kos Town”, “Kos, Greece”, and “Póli Kos”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Kos and Defterdar Mosque.

Museum
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Mosque
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The Defterdar Ibrahim Pasha Mosque or simply is a on the island of , in the region of . Built in the 18th century, during the Ottoman-era, the mosque serves the Muslim community of Kos, as one of the two out…

Park
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is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kos and Kos Asklepieion.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
is a popular tourist destination in the islands of the , located in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea, near the coast.

Locality
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The Temple of Asclepius or Asclepieion of Kos was one of the most famous temples dedicated to Asclepius in the ancient world. The archeologist Rudolf Herzog, grandfather of Werner Herzog, excavated it in 1902, as the latter recounted in conversation with Paul Holdengräber. is situated 3½ km southwest of Kos.

Town
Photo: Karelj, Public domain.
is a town, which is situated 8 km west of Kos.

Kos

Latitude
36.89295° or 36° 53′ 35″ north
Longitude
27.28768° or 27° 17′ 16″ east
Population
19,200
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
KGS
United Nations Location Code
GR KGS
Open location code
8G89V7VQ+53
Geo­Names ID
259245
Wiki­data ID
Q568212
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوس”
  • Armenian: “Կոս (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Կոս”
  • Asturian: “Kos (city)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kos (şəhər)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kos”
  • Belarusian: “Кос”
  • Bulgarian: “Кос”
  • Catalan: “Cos”
  • Cebuano: “Kos”
  • Chinese: “科斯”
  • Czech: “Kós”
  • Danish: “Kos by”
  • Danish: “Kos”
  • Dutch: “Kos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوس”
  • Estonian: “Kos”
  • Finnish: “Kos”
  • French: “Kos”
  • German: “Kos Stadt”
  • German: “Kos”
  • Greek: “Κως (πόλη)”
  • Greek: “Κως”
  • Hebrew: “קוס”
  • Interlingue: “Kos”
  • Italian: “Coo”
  • Latin: “Cos”
  • Lithuanian: “Kos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kos”
  • Polish: “Kos”
  • Russian: “Кос”
  • Serbian: “Kos”
  • Serbian: “Кос”
  • Silesian: “Kos (Grecyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Kos”
  • Slovak: “Kos (mesto)”
  • Slovak: “Kos”
  • Slovenian: “Kos”
  • Spanish: “Cos”
  • Swedish: “Kos”
  • Turkish: “İstanköy”
  • Ukrainian: “Кос”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Medieval city walls and Hellenistic-Roman House.

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