Attica

Attica is an administrative region of that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, the core city of which is the country's capital and largest city, .
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  • Type: State with 3,790,000 residents
  • Description: administrative region of Greece
  • Also known as: “Attica Periphery” and “Attica Region”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archedimou Cave and Sykias Pothole.

Cave
Photo: 5telios, CC BY 3.0.
The Vari Cave, also known as the Nympholyptos Cave, is a small cave northeast of in , . In classical antiquity the cave was used as a shrine dedicated to Apollo, Pan and the Nymphs.

Cave
Photo: C messier, CC0.
Sykia is a small in Athens, . The , which has a depth of about 20 metres, has been known since the mid-1940s and is located near the peak of Korakovouni at an altitude of approximately 300 m above sea level.

Military installation
Photo: BasilioC, Public domain.
The Hellenic Army Academy, commonly known as the Evelpidon, is a military academy. It is the Officer cadet school of the Greek Army and the oldest third-level educational institution in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni and Glyfada.

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The is a municipality in , the historic region of city-state. It is part of Athens' urban area.

Suburb
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is a town and a suburb in the South Athens regional unit located in the Athens Riviera along the coast of the . It is situated in the southern parts of the .

Suburb
is a suburban municipality and a town in Central Athens regional unit and located in the central-southern part of the agglomeration. Its name is the modern form of the ancient name of Heliopolis in .

Attica

Latitude
37.8721° or 37° 52′ 20″ north
Longitude
23.7975° or 23° 47′ 51″ east
Population
3,790,000
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
Open location code
8G95VQCX+V2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13319072695
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6692632
Wiki­data ID
Q758056
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Attica” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Atika”
  • Amharic: “አቲካ”
  • Arabic: “أتيكا”
  • Arabic: “إقليم أتيكا”
  • Aragonese: “Atica”
  • Aragonese: “Periferia d’Atica”
  • Armenian: “Ատիկա”
  • Armenian: “Ատտիկա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Attika”
  • Bashkir: “Аттика”
  • Basque: “Atika”
  • Belarusian: “Атыка”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাটিকা”
  • Bengali: “আটিকা অঞ্চল”
  • Catalan: “Àtica”
  • Catalan: “Perifèria d’Àtica”
  • Cebuano: “Attica”
  • Chinese: “Attica Tōa-khu”
  • Chinese: “阿提卡大区”
  • Chinese: “阿提卡大區”
  • Chinese: “阿提卡省”
  • Croatian: “Periferija Atika”
  • Czech: “Attika”
  • Danish: “Attica Region”
  • Danish: “Attika”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Attika”
  • Dutch: “Attica”
  • Dutch: “Attika”
  • Esperanto: “Atiko”
  • Estonian: “Atika piirkond”
  • Faroese: “Attika”
  • Finnish: “Attican maakunta”
  • French: “Attique”
  • French: “périphérie d’Attique”
  • Galician: “Periferia de Ática”
  • Georgian: “ატიკა”
  • German: “Attika”
  • Greek: “Αττική”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Αττικής”
  • Gujarati: “અટીકા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Atika (yanki)”
  • Hausa: “Atika”
  • Hausa: “Attika”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אטיקה”
  • Hindi: “अटिका क्षेत्र”
  • Ido: “Regiono Attika”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Attica”
  • Italian: “Attica”
  • Japanese: “アッティカ”
  • Japanese: “アッティカ地域”
  • Japanese: “アッティキ”
  • Javanese: “Attika”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟ್ಟಿಕಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Аттика”
  • Kirghiz: “Аттика”
  • Korean: “아티키 주”
  • Korean: “아티키”
  • Korean: “아티키주”
  • Kurdish: “Atîka”
  • Latin: “Attica”
  • Latvian: “Atikas perifērija”
  • Lithuanian: “Atikos periferija”
  • Lombard: “Atica”
  • Malay: “Attica Region”
  • Malay: “Attica”
  • Malay: “Attika”
  • Maltese: “Attika”
  • Marathi: “अटिका प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Attica Tōa-khu”
  • Mingrelian: “ატიკა”
  • Newari: “एतिका (लागा)”
  • Newari: “एतिका”
  • Northern Frisian: “Attika”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Attikí region”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Attikí”
  • Norwegian: “Attikí”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Atica”
  • Oromo: “Attika”
  • Ossetian: “Аттикæ (перифери)”
  • Ossetian: “Аттикæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਟੀਕਾ”
  • Persian: “آتیک (ناحیه)”
  • Persian: “اتیکا”
  • Persian: “استان آتیک”
  • Polish: “Attyka”
  • Polish: “Region Attyka”
  • Portuguese: “Ática”
  • Portuguese: “Região Attica”
  • Pushto: “اتیکا”
  • Romanian: “Attica”
  • Russian: “Аттика (периферия)”
  • Russian: “Аттика”
  • Russian: “периферия Аттика”
  • Serbian: “Периферија Атика”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Periferija Atika”
  • Sinhala: “අට්ටිකා කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Atika”
  • Slovenian: “Atika Periferija”
  • Slovenian: “Atika”
  • Somali: “Attika”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آتیک اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Ática”
  • Spanish: “Periféreia Attikís”
  • Spanish: “Periferia de Ática”
  • Spanish: “periferia del Ática”
  • Spanish: “Región de Ática”
  • Spanish: “región del Ática”
  • Spanish: “Región del Ática”
  • Spanish: “Περιφέρεια Αττικής”
  • Swahili: “Attika”
  • Swedish: “Attika”
  • Tajik: “Аттика”
  • Tamil: “அட்டிகா பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Аттика”
  • Telugu: “అట్టికా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นแอตติกา”
  • Turkish: “Attika Periferisi”
  • Turkish: “Attika”
  • Ukrainian: “Аттика”
  • Urdu: “آتیکا”
  • Urdu: “اتیکا (ریجن)”
  • Urdu: “اتیکا (علاقہ)”
  • Uzbek: “Attika”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Attica”
  • Vlaams: “Attika (periferie)”
  • Vlaams: “Attika”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Attica”
  • Welsh: “Attica (rhanbarth)”
  • Welsh: “Attica”
  • Western Armenian: “Ատիկէ”
  • Western Armenian: “Ատտիկէի մարզ”
  • Western Panjabi: “اتیکا (علاقہ)”
  • Western Panjabi: “اتیکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿提卡 (大区)”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿提卡（大区）”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿提卡大區”

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