Aegina
Aegina is one of the Saronic Gulf Islands, a triangle 11 km on each side. It's the closest island to Athens, reached in barely an hour by ferry, and in 2011 had a population of 13,056.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 7,250 residents
- Description: town on the homonymous island in Greece
- Also known as: “Aíyina”
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Governor’s House and Folklore Museum Aegina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kypseli and Vathy.
Kypseli
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kypseli is a village, which is situated 2½ km northeast of Aegina.
Vathy
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vathy is a village, which is situated 5 km northeast of Aegina.
Palaiochora
Locality
Photo: Pbm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paliachora, also known as Palaia Chora and Palaiochora is an abandoned Medieval settlement on Aegina, one of the islands off the coast of Attica in Greece. Palaiochora is situated 5 km east of Aegina.
Aegina
- Category: locality
- Location: Aegina, Piraeus Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.7467° or 37° 44′ 48″ northLongitude
23.43063° or 23° 25′ 50″ eastPopulation
7,250Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR AEGOpen location code
8G95PCWJ+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 229848335OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Aegina” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Էգինա”
- Asturian: “Aegina”
- Azerbaijani: “Egina (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Egina”
- Breton: “Aigina (kêr)”
- Breton: “Aigina”
- Catalan: “Egina”
- Cebuano: “Aegina”
- Czech: “Aigina”
- Dutch: “Aegina”
- Dutch: “Égine”
- Estonian: “Aigina”
- Estonian: “Aígina”
- Finnish: “Aígina (kunta)”
- Finnish: “Aígina”
- French: “Égine”
- German: “Ägina”
- German: “Aigina”
- Greek: “Aígina”
- Greek: “Αίγινα”
- Greek: “Χώρα Αίγινας”
- Ido: “Municipo Aigina”
- Ido: “Municipo Egina”
- Italian: “Egina”
- Korean: “에기나”
- Polish: “Egina”
- Romanian: “Eghina”
- Russian: “Эгина”
- Slovenian: “Egina”
- Spanish: “Aegina”
- Spanish: “Egina”
- Swedish: “Aegina, Dimos Aegina”
- Swedish: “Aegina”
- Ukrainian: “Егіна”
- Welsh: “Aegina”
- Western Armenian: “Էղինա”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Aegina”. Photo: Jebulon, CC0.