Pella
Macedonia in northern Greece is the largest and second-most-populous region of Greece, with a population of about 2.4 million. It features scenic mountains such as Mount Olympus and the Rhodopes, the beaches of Chalkidiki, the heritage of Alexander's Kingdom of Macedon and the artistic flourishes of the Byzantine Empire.
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- Type: prefecture of Greece with 144,000 residents
- Description: regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece
- Also known as: “GR-59”, “nome de Pélla”, “Nomós Péllas”, “Nomos Pellis”, “Pel.la”, “Pel•la”, “Peŀla”, “Pel·la”, “Pella Regional Unit”, “Prefectura de Pel·la”, “Prefectura de Pelli”, “Prefettura di Pella”, “Unidad periferica de Pella”, “Unidad Regional de Pella”, “Νομός Πέλλης”, “Воденско”, “Ном Пела”, “펠라 현”, and “派拉州”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mandalo, Pella and Aravissos.
Aravissos
Village
Aravissos is a village in Pella, Greece. Aravissos is situated 4½ km east of Pella.
Pella
- Category: regional unit of Greece
- Location: Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.8333° or 40° 50′ north
Longitude
22.25° or 22° 15′ east
Population
144,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8GG4R7M2+82
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Pella” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيلا”
- Basque: “Pella (unitate erregionala)”
- Basque: “Pella”
- Belarusian: “Пэла”
- Bulgarian: “Пела”
- Catalan: “unitat perifèrica de Pel·la”
- Catalan: “Unitat perifèrica de Pel·la”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Péllis”
- Chinese: “派拉专区”
- Chinese: “派拉專區”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Pella”
- Danish: “Pella”
- Dutch: “Pella”
- Esperanto: “Pelao”
- Estonian: “Pélla piirkonnaüksus”
- Finnish: “Pélla”
- Finnish: “Péllan alueyksikkö”
- French: “district régional de Pélla”
- French: “Pella”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Pella”
- Georgian: “პელა”
- Georgian: “პელის ნომი”
- German: “Pella”
- German: “Regionalbezirk Pella”
- Greek: “Νομός Πέλλας”
- Greek: “Πέλλα”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Πέλλας”
- Ido: “Provinco Pella”
- Italian: “Pella”
- Japanese: “ペラ県”
- Korean: “펠라 지구”
- Korean: “펠라현”
- Latin: “Pella”
- Lithuanian: “Pelos nomas”
- Macedonian: “Постол”
- Macedonian: “Постолски округ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pella (prefektur)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pella”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Periferieininga Pélla”
- Norwegian: “Pella”
- Polish: “Jednostka regionalna Pella”
- Portuguese: “Pela (Grécia)”
- Portuguese: “Pela”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Pella”
- Russian: “Пела (периферийная единица)”
- Russian: “Пела”
- Serbian: “Pela”
- Serbian: “Пела”
- Serbian: “Префектура Пела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Pela”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Pella”
- Spanish: “Pela”
- Spanish: “unidad periférica de Pella”
- Spanish: “Unidad periférica de Pella”
- Swedish: “Nomós Péllis”
- Swedish: “Pella”
- Turkish: “Pella”
- Ukrainian: “Пелла”
- Urdu: “پیلا (علاقائی اکائی)”
- Urdu: “پیلا”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pella”
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