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Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is the northeastern part of the Mediterranean Sea; it lies between and and is bounded on the south by . Much of the area is covered in our article on the , and has a separate article.
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Aegean Sea

Latitude of center
39° north
Longitude of center
25° east
Geo­Names ID
265695
Wiki­data ID
Q34575
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Aegean Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Egeïese See”
  • Albanian: “Deti Egje”
  • Amharic: “ኤጊያን ባህር”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Αἰγαῖος πόντος”
  • Arabic: “أيجة”
  • Arabic: “إيجة”
  • Arabic: “إيجه”
  • Arabic: “بحر أيجة”
  • Arabic: “بحر إيجا”
  • Arabic: “بحر إيجة”
  • Arabic: “بحر إيجه”
  • Arabic: “بحر ايجا”
  • Arabic: “بحر ايجة”
  • Arabic: “بحر ايجه”
  • Aragonese: “Mar Echea”
  • Aragonese: “Mar Echeya”
  • Armenian: “Եգեյան ծով”
  • Asturian: “Mar Exea”
  • Asturian: “Mar Exéu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Egey dənizi”
  • Balinese: “Segara Aégéa”
  • Bashkir: “Эгей диңгеҙе”
  • Basque: “Egeo Itsaso”
  • Basque: “Egeo itsasoa”
  • Basque: “Egeo”
  • Belarusian: “Эгейскае мора”
  • Bengali: “এজিয়ান সাগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “ईजियन सागर”
  • Bhojpuri: “एईजियन सागर”
  • Bhojpuri: “एजियन सागर”
  • Bosnian: “Egejsko more”
  • Breton: “Enezvor”
  • Breton: “Mor Aegeos”
  • Breton: “Mor Egaios”
  • Breton: “Mor Egea”
  • Breton: “Mor Enezek”
  • Bulgarian: “Бяло море”
  • Bulgarian: “Егейско море”
  • Bulgarian: “Егея”
  • Burmese: “အေဂျင်ပင်လယ်”
  • Catalan: “Egeu”
  • Catalan: “mar Egea”
  • Catalan: “Mar Egea”
  • Catalan: “Mar Egeu”
  • Central Bikol: “Dagat Egeo”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای ئێژە”
  • Chechen: “Эгейн хӀорд”
  • Chinese: “Aegea Hái”
  • Chinese: “愛琴海”
  • Chinese: “爱琴海”
  • Chuvash: “Эгей тинĕсĕ”
  • Corsican: “Mari Egeiu”
  • Corsican: “Mari Egeu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ege deñizi”
  • Croatian: “Egejsko more”
  • Czech: “Egejské moře”
  • Danish: “Ægæerhavet”
  • Danish: “Ægæiske Hav”
  • Danish: “Det Ægæiske Hav”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Deryay Egey”
  • Dutch: “Aegeische Zee”
  • Dutch: “Aegeïsche Zee”
  • Dutch: “Egeische Zee”
  • Dutch: “Egeïsche Zee”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эгей теҥыз”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эгейское море”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحر إيجة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحر ايجه”
  • Esperanto: “Egea maro”
  • Esperanto: “Egea Maro”
  • Estonian: “Egeuse meri”
  • Extremaduran: “Mari Egeu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Aegean Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Aegeanmeri”
  • Finnish: “Ageianmeri”
  • Finnish: “Aigeanmeri”
  • Finnish: “Aigeianmeri”
  • Finnish: “Egeanmeri”
  • French: “Égée”
  • French: “Mer Egee”
  • French: “Mer Egée”
  • French: “mer Égée”
  • French: “Mer Égée”
  • Galician: “Exeo”
  • Galician: “Mar Exeo”
  • Georgian: “ეგეოსის ზღვა”
  • German: “Ägäis”
  • German: “Ägäisches Meer”
  • Greek: “Aigaíon Pélagos”
  • Greek: “Aiyaíon Pélagos”
  • Greek: “Αιγαίο Πέλαγος”
  • Greek: “Αιγαίο”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Αιγαίου”
  • Hebrew: “הים האגאי”
  • Hebrew: “הים האיגאי”
  • Hebrew: “ים האגאי”
  • Hindi: “ईजियन सागर”
  • Hindi: “एजियन सागर”
  • Hindi: “एजियाई सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Égei-tenger”
  • Hungarian: “Égeikum”
  • Icelandic: “Eyjahaf”
  • Ido: “Egea maro”
  • Iloko: “Baybay Egeo”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Aegea”
  • Interlingua: “Mar Egee”
  • Interlingua: “Mar Egeo”
  • Irish: “An Mhuir Aeigéach”
  • Italian: “Mar di Tracia”
  • Italian: “mar Egeo”
  • Italian: “Mar Egeo”
  • Italian: “Mare Egeo”
  • Japanese: “エーゲウス海”
  • Japanese: “エーゲ海”
  • Javanese: “Sagara Aegea”
  • Javanese: “Segara Aegea”
  • Javanese: “Segara Aegean”
  • Kabyle: “Ilel n Ijey”
  • Kazakh: “Эгей теңізі”
  • Kirghiz: “Эгей деңизи”
  • Korean: “에게해”
  • Kurdish: “Derya Ege”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Ege”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Egê”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Egeyê”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Egeyî”
  • Kurdish: “Ege”
  • Latin: “Aegaeum mare”
  • Latin: “Aegaeum”
  • Latin: “Mare Aegaeum”
  • Latvian: “Egejas jūra”
  • Limburgan: “Egeïsche Zie”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mar Ejeo”
  • Lithuanian: “Egėjo jūra”
  • Livvi: “Egeinmeri”
  • Lombard: “Mar Egee”
  • Low German: “Ägääsche See”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Egejske mórjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ägäescht Mier”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ägäis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Egäescht Mier”
  • Luxembourgish: “Egäis”
  • Macedonian: “Бело Море”
  • Macedonian: “Егејско Море”
  • Malagasy: “Ranomasina Egea”
  • Malay: “Laut Aegea”
  • Malay: “Laut Aegean”
  • Malay: “Laut Aegia”
  • Malayalam: “ഈജിയൻ കടൽ”
  • Maltese: “Baħar Eġew”
  • Marathi: “एजियन समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “اژه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Aegea Hāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aegean Hái”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aegean-hái”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ege Hái”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ege-hái”
  • Mingrelian: “ეგეოსიშ ზუღა”
  • Mongolian: “Эгейн тэнгис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بحر ايجة”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبحر لإيجي”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ägäisk Sia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det egeeiske hav”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Egeerhavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Egearhavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Egeerhavet”
  • Norwegian: “Egeerhavet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar Egèa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Egisca Sǣ”
  • Ossetian: “Эгейы денджыз”
  • Panjabi: “ਈਜੀਅਨ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਈਜੀਅਨ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریای آیگه”
  • Persian: “دریای اژه”
  • Persian: “دریای ایگه”
  • Polish: “Morze Egejskie”
  • Portuguese: “Mar Egeu”
  • Pushto: “اېجین سمندر”
  • Romanian: “Egee”
  • Romanian: “Marea Egee”
  • Russian: “Море архипелага”
  • Russian: “Эгейское море”
  • Rusyn: “Егейске море”
  • Scots: “Aegean Sea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Am Muir Àigeanach”
  • Serbian: “Αιγαίο Πέλαγος”
  • Serbian: “Бело море”
  • Serbian: “Егеји”
  • Serbian: “Егејско море”
  • Serbian: “Јегејско море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Egejsko more”
  • Shona: “Bhahari re Eegi”
  • Sicilian: “Mar Eggeu”
  • Sicilian: “Mari Egeu”
  • Sicilian: “Mari Egèu”
  • Sicilian: “Mari Eggeu”
  • Sindhi: “ايجيئن سمنڊ”
  • Slovak: “Egejské more”
  • Slovenian: “Egejsko morje”
  • Somali: “Badda Iija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اژه دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “Egeo”
  • Spanish: “mar Egeo”
  • Spanish: “Mar Egeo”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Aegea”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Aegean”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Aegeis”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Aegeus”
  • Swedish: “Aegiska havet”
  • Swedish: “Egeiska havet”
  • Swiss German: “Ägäis”
  • Tagalog: “Aegean Sea”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Aegean”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Aegeano”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Egeo”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри Эгей”
  • Tamil: “ஏஜியன் கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Эгей диңгезе”
  • Telugu: “ఏజియన్ సముద్రం”
  • Thai: “Aegean Sea”
  • Thai: “ทะเลอีเจียน”
  • Thai: “ทะเลเอเจียน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ägäisches Meer”
  • Turkish: “Adalar Denizi”
  • Turkish: “Ege Denizi”
  • Turkmen: “Egeý deňzi”
  • Udmurt: “Эгей зарезь”
  • Uighur: “ئېگىي دېڭىزى”
  • Ukrainian: “Егейське море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Egejske morjo”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ ایجیئن”
  • Urdu: “بحیرۂ ایجیئن”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ ایجین”
  • Uzbek: “Egey dengizi”
  • Venetian: “Egeo”
  • Venetian: “Mar Ezeo”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Aegea”
  • Vlaams: “Egeïsche Zêe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aegean Sea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Aegean”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Egeo”
  • Welsh: “Môr Aegaea”
  • Welsh: “Môr Aegea”
  • Welsh: “Môr Aegeaidd”
  • Welsh: “Môr Egeaidd”
  • Western Armenian: “Էգէական Ծով”
  • Western Frisian: “Aegëyske See”
  • Western Frisian: “Egeyske See”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایجی سمندر”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحیرہ ایجیئن”
  • Wu Chinese: “爱琴海”
  • Yakut: “Эгей байҕала”
  • Yiddish: “אגאישן ים”
  • Yiddish: “אגאישער ים”
  • Yue Chinese: “Aegean Sea”
  • Yue Chinese: “愛琴海”
  • “एजियन सागर”

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