Vardar River

The Vardar or Axios is the longest river in and a major river in , where it reaches the at . It is 388 km long, out of which 76 km are in Greece, and drains an area of around 25,000 km2.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in North Macedonia and Greece
  • Also known as: “Aksijas”, “Aksios”, “Aksjos”, “Assio”, “Axio”, “Axios”, “Axiós”, “Axiós Potamós”, “Axiόs”, “Bardari”, “Lumi Vardar”, “Reka Vardar”, “Río Axios”, “Rio Axius”, “Varda”, “Vardar”, “Vardaris”, “Vardáris”, “Ἀξιός”, “Аксиос”, “Аксіос”, “Аксйос”, “Източната криза”, “Река Вардар”, “וארדר”, “ורדר”, “アクシオス川”, and “ヴァルダル”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Angelochori.

Village
Photo: Tryfon Manolis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in the municipal unit… is situated 10 km east of Vardar River.

Vardar River

Latitude
40.50234° or 40° 30′ 8″ north
Longitude
22.72149° or 22° 43′ 17″ east
Open location code
8GG4GP2C+WH
Geo­Names ID
733949
Wiki­data ID
Q189596
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Vardar River” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lumi i Vardarit”
  • Albanian: “Vardari”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἄξιος”
  • Arabic: “نهر فاردار”
  • Armenian: “Վարդար”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Vardar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vardar”
  • Basque: “Vardar”
  • Belarusian: “Вардар”
  • Bengali: “ভার্দার”
  • Bosnian: “Vardar”
  • Breton: “Vardar”
  • Bulgarian: “Вардар”
  • 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: “Vardar”
  • Danish: “Vardar”
  • Dutch: “Vardar”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Vardar”
  • Estonian: “Vardar”
  • Finnish: “Vardar”
  • French: “Vardar”
  • Galician: “Río Vardar”
  • Georgian: “ვარდარი”
  • German: “Vardar”
  • Greek: “Αξιός Ποταμός”
  • Greek: “Αξιός”
  • Hebrew: “וארדאר”
  • Hindi: “वर्दर नदी”
  • Hindi: “वार्दार नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Vardar”
  • Indonesian: “Vardar”
  • Interlingue: “Vardar”
  • Irish: “Vardar”
  • Italian: “Vardar”
  • Japanese: “ヴァルダル川”
  • Korean: “바르다르강”
  • Ladin: “Vardar”
  • Latin: “Axius”
  • Latvian: “Vardara”
  • Lithuanian: “Vardaras”
  • Macedonian: “Вардар”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vardar Hô”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤاردار”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vardar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vardar”
  • Norwegian: “Vardar”
  • Novial: “Vardar”
  • Persian: “واردار”
  • Polish: “Wardar”
  • Pontic: “Βαρδάρης”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Vardar”
  • Portuguese: “Vardar”
  • Romanian: “Vardar”
  • Russian: “Вардар”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱷᱟᱨᱫᱟᱨ”
  • Scots: “Vardar”
  • Serbian: “Vardar”
  • Serbian: “Вардар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vardar”
  • Silesian: “Wardar”
  • Slovak: “Vardar”
  • Slovenian: “Vardar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “واردار چایی”
  • Spanish: “Río Vardar”
  • Swedish: “Vardar”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำวาร์ดาร์”
  • Turkish: “Vardar Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Vardar Suyu”
  • Ukrainian: “Вардар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wardar”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Vardar”
  • Western Armenian: “Աքսիոս”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Káto Karampournoú and Nea Malgara.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Kavoúra and Axios river delta.

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Worth a closer look: Athens and Thessaloniki.

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