Vardar River
The Vardar or Axios is the longest river in North Macedonia and a major river in Greece, where it reaches the Aegean Sea at Thessaloniki. It is 388 km long, out of which 76 km are in Greece, and drains an area of around 25,000 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in North Macedonia and Greece
- Also known as: “Axios”, “Axiós Potamós”, “Varda”, “Vardar”, and “Vardáris”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Angelochori.
Angelochori
Village
Photo: Tryfon Manolis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Angelochori is a village in the municipal unit of Thermaikos, in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. It is located to the east of Cape Megalo Embolo, at an average elevation of 16 meters above the sea level. Angelochori is situated 10 km east of Vardar River.
Vardar River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Vardar River” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lumi i Vardarit”
- Albanian: “Lumi Vardar”
- Albanian: “Vardari”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀξιός”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἄξιος”
- Arabic: “نهر فاردار”
- Armenian: “Վարդար”
- Asturian: “Ríu Vardar”
- Azerbaijani: “Vardar”
- Basque: “Vardar”
- Belarusian: “Вардар”
- Belarusian: “Рака Вардар”
- Bengali: “ভার্দার”
- Bosnian: “Vardar”
- Breton: “Vardar”
- Bulgarian: “Аксиос”
- Bulgarian: “Вардар”
- Bulgarian: “Източната криза”
- Catalan: “Axios”
- Catalan: “Bardari”
- Catalan: “Vàrdar”
- Cebuano: “Vardar River”
- Chinese: “瓦尔达尔河”
- Chinese: “瓦爾達爾河”
- Chinese: “發達河”
- Chuvash: “Вардар”
- Croatian: “Vardar”
- Czech: “Axios”
- Czech: “Axiós”
- Czech: “Vardar”
- Danish: “Vardar”
- Dutch: “Axios”
- Dutch: “Vardar”
- Dutch: “Vardaris”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Vardar”
- Esperanto: “Vardar”
- Estonian: “Vardar”
- Finnish: “Vardar”
- French: “Axios”
- French: “Axiόs”
- French: “Vardar”
- Georgian: “ვარდარი”
- German: “Axios”
- German: “Vardar”
- German: “Wardar”
- Greek: “Αξιός Ποταμός”
- Greek: “Αξιός”
- Greek: “Βαρδάρης”
- Hebrew: “וארדאר”
- Hebrew: “וארדר”
- Hebrew: “ורדר”
- Hindi: “वर्दर नदी”
- Hindi: “वार्दार नदी”
- Hungarian: “Vardar”
- Indonesian: “Vardar”
- Interlingue: “Vardar”
- Irish: “Vardar”
- Italian: “Axios”
- Italian: “Vardar”
- Japanese: “アクシオス川”
- Japanese: “ヴァルダル”
- Japanese: “ヴァルダル川”
- Korean: “바르다르강”
- Ladin: “Vardar”
- Latin: “Axius”
- Latvian: “Vardara”
- Lithuanian: “Aksijas”
- Lithuanian: “Vardaras”
- Macedonian: “Вардар”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ڤاردار”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Axios”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vardar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aksios”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Axios”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Axius”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vardar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vardaris”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Вардар”
- Norwegian: “Vardar”
- Novial: “Vardar”
- Persian: “واردار”
- Polish: “Aksios”
- Polish: “Aksjos”
- Polish: “Axios”
- Polish: “Vardar”
- Polish: “Wardar”
- Portuguese: “Rio Axius”
- Portuguese: “Rio Vardar”
- Portuguese: “Vardar”
- Romanian: “Vardar”
- Russian: “Вардар”
- Santali: “ᱵᱷᱟᱨᱫᱟᱨ”
- Scots: “Vardar”
- Serbian: “Reka Vardar”
- Serbian: “Vardar”
- Serbian: “Вардар”
- Serbian: “Река Вардар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vardar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Вардар”
- Silesian: “Wardar”
- Slovak: “Axios”
- Slovak: “Vardar”
- Slovenian: “Vardar”
- South Azerbaijani: “واردار چایی”
- Spanish: “Axio”
- Spanish: “Axios”
- Spanish: “Axiós”
- Spanish: “Rio Vardar”
- Spanish: “Río Vardar”
- Spanish: “Vardar”
- Swedish: “Axios”
- Swedish: “Axius”
- Swedish: “Vardar”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำวาร์ดาร์”
- Turkish: “Vardar Nehri”
- Turkish: “Vardar Suyu”
- Turkish: “Vardar”
- Ukrainian: “Аксіос”
- Ukrainian: “Аксйос”
- Ukrainian: “Вардар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wardar”
- Venetian: “Fiume Vardar”
- Western Armenian: “Աքսիոս”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Káto Karampournoú and Nea Malgara.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kavoúra and Axios river delta.
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