Piraeus Prefecture

Piraeus Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. Created in 1964 as a separate Prefecture and after the dissolution of the prefecture in 1972 was one of the 4 prefectures of , and from 1994, part of the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture.
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  • Prefecture of Greece with 524,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 27 metres (89 feet)
  • Description: former prefecture of Greece
  • Also known as
    “Nomos Piraios”
    “Piraiévs”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Poros and Dana Light House.
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The is a located on Koryzis Square in , .
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is situated 5 km west of Piraeus Prefecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Poros and Galatas.
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is a green island situated in the Saronic Gulf, 59 km from the Piraeus harbour of .
is a town located in the eastern part of the peninsula.
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is located in , with highly interesting…

Piraeus Prefecture

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Latitude
37.5° or 37° 30′ north
Longitude
23.4167° or 23° 25′ east
Open location code
8G95GC28+2M
Geo­Names ID
406101
Wiki­data ID
Q845827

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Piraeus Prefecture” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيرايوس”
  • Armenian: “Պիրեյ”
  • Belarusian: “Ном Пірэй”
  • Belarusian: “Пірэй”
  • Bulgarian: “Пирея”
  • Catalan: “prefectura del Pireu”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura del Pireu”
  • Cebuano: “Nomós Piraiós”
  • Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯州”
  • Croatian: “Prefektura Pirej”
  • Dutch: “Piraeus”
  • Finnish: “Pireuksen lääni”
  • Finnish: “Pireuksen prefektuuri”
  • French: “Nomarchie du Pirée”
  • French: “Nome du Piree”
  • French: “Nome du Pirée”
  • Georgian: “პირეი”
  • Georgian: “პირეის ნომი”
  • German: “Piräus”
  • Greek: “Νομαρχία Πειραιά”
  • Greek: “Νομαρχία Πειραιώς”
  • Greek: “Νομός Πειραιά”
  • Greek: “Νομός Περαία (1964-1972) Νομαρχία Πειραιά (1972-2010)”
  • Italian: “Pireo”
  • Italian: “Prefettura del Pireo”
  • Japanese: “ピレウス県”
  • Korean: “피레아스 현”
  • Korean: “피레아스현”
  • Lithuanian: “Pirėjaus nomas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pirėjo nomas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piraeus prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireàs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus prefektur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Piraeus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Pireus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pireus prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Pireus”
  • Polish: “Nomarchia Pireus”
  • Polish: “Nomos Pireus”
  • Polish: “Pireus”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Pireu”
  • Russian: “Пирей”
  • Serbian: “Prefektura Pirej”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Пиреј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Pirej”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Pirej”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de El Pireo”
  • Spanish: “prefectura de Perea”
  • Spanish: “prefectura del Pirea”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura del Pireo”
  • Swedish: “Nomós Piraiós”
  • Turkish: “Pire (il)”
  • Turkish: “Pire”
  • Ukrainian: “Пірей”
  • Urdu: “پیرایوس پریفیکچر”
  • Western Armenian: “Փիրէայի նահանգապետութիւն”
  • Western Armenian: “Փիրէայի Շրջանային Միաւոր”

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