Diaporos Island
Diaporos Island is an island of about one and a half square miles in the Singitic Gulf, Chalkidiki, northern Greece. In 1950 it had no inhabitants, however since the 1980s many private holiday homes have been built on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Chalkidiki, Greece
- Also known as: “Diaporos”, “Dimitri Island”, “Nisida Diasporos”, “Nisís Dhiáporos”, and “Vourvouroú”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vourvourou and Ormos Panagias.
Vourvourou
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Vourvourou is a village in Sithonia, Greece. Vourvourou is not a typical village: it has no square or history. Rather it is a 'strip' of shops, tavernas and rooms to rent, and is almost an exclusively seasonal area with few year-round residents.
Ormos Panagias
Village
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Ormos Panagias is a coastal village of Sithonia in Chalkidiki, Greece. Located between Kassandra and Mount Athos, Ormos Panagias is considered by some to be the port of the village of Agios Nikolaos, which is only a few kilometres away. Ormos Panagias is situated 5 km northwest of Diaporos Island.
Agios Nikolaos
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Agios Nikolaos is a village of Chalkidiki, in the Sithonia peninsula with a permanent population of 2,500. Agios Nikolaos is 110 km from Thessaloniki, where Sithonia peninsula begins.
Diaporos Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Diaporos Island” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Диапорос”
- Cebuano: “Nisída Diásporos”
- Dutch: “Diaporos Island”
- Finnish: “Diáporos”
- French: “Diáporos”
- Greek: “Nisída Diásporos”
- Greek: “Διάπορος Χαλκιδικής”
- Greek: “Νησίδα Διάσπορος”
- Macedonian: “Дијапорос”
- Macedonian: “Димитриј”
- Russian: “Дьяпорос”
- Swedish: “Nisída Diásporos”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Diaporos Island”. Photo: FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 4.0.