Athens

Athens is the capital city of . It was the major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.
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Essential Destinations

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Parthenon and Areopagus.
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Places in the Area

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Athens

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Latitude
37.9756° or 37° 58′ 32″ north
Longitude
23.7348° or 23° 44′ 5″ east
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GR ATH
Open location code
8G95XPGM+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
264371
Wiki­data ID
Q1524

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Athens” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Athene”
  • Albanian: “Athina”
  • Albanian: “Athinë”
  • Amharic: “አቴና”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἀθῆναι” (historical)
  • Angika: “एथेंस”
  • Arabic: “أثينا”
  • Aragonese: “Atenas”
  • Armenian: “Աթենք”
  • Arpitan: “Atèna”
  • Arpitan: “Atênes”
  • Assamese: “এথেন্স”
  • Asturian: “Atenes”
  • Awadhi: “एथेन्स”
  • Aymara: “Athina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afina şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Afina”
  • Balinese: “Athéna”
  • Bambara: “Athens”
  • Bashkir: “Афина”
  • Basque: “Atenas”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Athena”
  • Bavarian: “Athen”
  • Belarusian: “Ateny”
  • Belarusian: “Атэны”
  • Belarusian: “Афіны”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাথেন্স”
  • Bengali: “এথেন্স”
  • Betawi: “Atène”
  • Bosnian: “Atena”
  • Bosnian: “Atina”
  • Breton: “Aten”
  • Bulgarian: “Атина”
  • Burmese: “အေသင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Atenes”
  • Catalan: “Cetines”
  • Cebuano: “Atenas”
  • Central Bikol: “Atenas”
  • Central Kanuri: “Athens”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەتینا”
  • Chavacano: “Atenas”
  • Chechen: “Афина”
  • Chinese: “雅典”
  • Church Slavic: “Аѳинꙑ”
  • Church Slavic: “Аѳины”
  • Chuvash: “Афин”
  • Chuvash: “Афинсем”
  • Cornish: “Athenys”
  • Cornish: “Athína”
  • Corsican: “Ateni, Grecia”
  • Corsican: “Ateni”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Atina”
  • Croatian: “Atena”
  • Czech: “Atény”
  • Czech: “Athény”
  • Dagbani: “Athens”
  • Danish: “Athen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Atêna”
  • Dotyali: “एथेन्स”
  • Dutch: “Athene (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Athene”
  • Eastern Mari: “Афин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتينا”
  • Erzya: “Афины ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ateno”
  • Esperanto: “Atenoj”
  • Estonian: “Ateena”
  • Extremaduran: “Atenas”
  • Faroese: “Athen”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Athens”
  • Finnish: “Ateena”
  • French: “Athènes”
  • Friulian: “Aten”
  • Friulian: “Atene”
  • Fulah: “Athens”
  • Gagauz: “Afina”
  • Galician: “Atenas”
  • Gan Chinese: “雅典”
  • Georgian: “ათენი”
  • German: “Athen”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Athens”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃”
  • Greek: “Athínai”
  • Greek: “Αθηνα”
  • Greek: “Αθήνα”
  • Greek: “Αθηναι”
  • Greek: “Αθήναι” (historical)
  • Guarani: “Atena”
  • Guarani: “Aténa”
  • Gujarati: “એથેન્સ”
  • Haitian: “Atèn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Athens”
  • Hausa: “Athens”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Akenai”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAkenai”
  • Hebrew: “אתונה”
  • Hindi: “ऍथेन्स”
  • Hindi: “एथेंस”
  • Hungarian: “Athén”
  • Iban: “Athens”
  • Icelandic: “Aþena”
  • Ido: “Athina”
  • Igbo: “Atens”
  • Iloko: “Atenas”
  • Indonesian: “Athena”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Athena”
  • Ingush: “Афины”
  • Interlingua: “Athenas”
  • Interlingue: “Athina”
  • Irish: “an Aithin”
  • Irish: “An Aithin”
  • Italian: “Atene”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Atenz”
  • Japanese: “アテネ”
  • Japanese: “エレソス”
  • Javanese: “Aténa”
  • Kabardian: “Афинхэр”
  • Kabiyè: “Atɛnɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Atena”
  • Kabyle: “Atina”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Athens”
  • Kalmyk: “Атен балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಅಥೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Afina”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Афинле”
  • Kashmiri: “ایتھنز”
  • Kashubian: “Atenë”
  • Kazakh: “Афина”
  • Kazakh: “Афины”
  • Kirghiz: “Афина”
  • Kirghiz: “Афины”
  • Komering: “Athena”
  • Komi: “Афинъяс”
  • Korean: “아테네 시”
  • Korean: “아테네”
  • Kotava: “Atina”
  • Kurdish: “Atîna”
  • Ladino: “Atena”
  • Ladino: “Atina”
  • Ladino: “Atines”
  • Lao: “ເອເທນ”
  • Latin: “Athenae”
  • Latvian: “Atēnas”
  • Lezghian: “Афинар”
  • Lezghian: “Афинаяр”
  • Ligurian: “Aten”
  • Ligurian: “Atene”
  • Limburgan: “Athene”
  • Lingala: “Atenis”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Atina”
  • Literary Chinese: “雅典”
  • Lithuanian: “Atėnai”
  • Livvi: “Afiinat”
  • Lojban: “atenas”
  • Lombard: “Atene”
  • Low German: “Athen”
  • Low German: “Athene”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Atheny”
  • Luxembourgish: “Athen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Athina”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Athine”
  • Macedonian: “Атина”
  • Magahi: “एथेन्स”
  • Maithili: “एथेन्स”
  • Malagasy: “Atena”
  • Malagasy: “Athens”
  • Malay: “Athens”
  • Malayalam: “ഏതൻസ്‌”
  • Maltese: “Ateni”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯊꯦꯟꯁ”
  • Manx: “Yn Atheen”
  • Maori: “Ātene”
  • Marathi: “ॲथेन्स”
  • Marathi: “अथेन्स”
  • Mazanderani: “آتن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngà-diēng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngā-diēng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Athens”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Athina”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Athína”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngá-tián”
  • Minangkabau: “Athena”
  • Mingrelian: “ათენი”
  • Mirandese: “Atenas”
  • Moksha: “Афитт”
  • Mongolian: “Афин”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أتينا”
  • Nauru: “Atens”
  • Navajo: “Tsékʼi Ííyah Daniiʼáii”
  • Neapolitan: “Atene”
  • Nepali: “एथेन्स”
  • Newari: “एथेन्स”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atheen”
  • Northern Luri: “آتن”
  • Northern Sami: “Athena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Athen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aten”
  • Norwegian: “Aten”
  • Norwegian: “Athen”
  • Novial: “Atena”
  • Nyanja: “Athens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Atenas”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܬܝܢܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܬܢܘܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Athēnas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Aþēnas”
  • Oriya: “ଏଥେନ୍ସ”
  • Ossetian: “Афинæтæ”
  • Pampanga: “Atenas”
  • Pampanga: “Athens”
  • Panjabi: “ਐਥਨਜ਼”
  • Papiamento: “Atenas”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Athina”
  • Persian: “آتِن، آتَن، آتنِه”
  • Persian: “آتن”
  • Picard: “Atène”
  • Picard: “Atènes”
  • Piemontese: “Atene”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Athens”
  • Polish: “Ateny”
  • Pontic: “Αθήνα”
  • Portuguese: “Atenas”
  • Pushto: “آتن”
  • Pushto: “اتن”
  • Quechua: “Athina”
  • Romanian: “Atena”
  • Romansh: “Athen”
  • Russia Buriat: “Афина”
  • Russian: “Афины”
  • Rusyn: “Атены”
  • Sakizaya: “Ya-tyen”
  • Samoan: “Atenai”
  • Samogitian: “Atienā”
  • Saraiki: “ایتھنز”
  • Sardinian: “Atene”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Athene”
  • Scots: “Athens”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Àithne”
  • Serbian: “Atina”
  • Serbian: “Атина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atena”
  • Shona: “Athens”
  • Sicilian: “Ateni”
  • Silesian: “Atyny”
  • Sindhi: “اٿينس”
  • Sindhi: “اٿینز”
  • Sinhala: “ඇතන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Atény”
  • Slovenian: “Atene”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آتن”
  • Spanish: “Atenas”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵜⵉⵏⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Athens”
  • Swedish: “Aten”
  • Swedish: “Athen”
  • Swiss German: “Athen”
  • Tachelhit: “Atina”
  • Tagalog: “Atenas”
  • Tagalog: “Athína”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Athína”
  • Tajik: “Афина”
  • Talysh: “Afina”
  • Tamil: “அதென்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “ஏதென்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Афин”
  • Tatar: “Афина”
  • Tatar: “Афиннар”
  • Telugu: “ఏథెన్స్”
  • Thai: “เอเธนส์”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཐེན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Aten”
  • Tumbuka: “Athens”
  • Turkish: “Atina”
  • Turkmen: “Afiny”
  • Turkmen: “Atina”
  • Twi: “Atɛns”
  • Twi: “Athens”
  • Udmurt: “Афины”
  • Uighur: “ئافېنا”
  • Ukrainian: “Атени”
  • Ukrainian: “Афіни”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Athen”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Atheny”
  • Urdu: “اتھینا”
  • Urdu: “اتھینہ”
  • Urdu: “اثینا”
  • Urdu: “اثینہ”
  • Urdu: “ایتھنز”
  • Uzbek: “Afina”
  • Venetian: “Atene”
  • Veps: “Afinad”
  • Vietnamese: “Athena”
  • Vietnamese: “Athenae”
  • Vietnamese: “Athens”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhã Điển”
  • Vlaams: “Athene”
  • Vlax Romani: “Athens”
  • Volapük: “Aten”
  • Volapük: “Atina”
  • Võro: “Ateena”
  • Walloon: “Atene”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atenas”
  • Welsh: “Athen”
  • Western Armenian: “Աթէնք”
  • Western Frisian: “Atene”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایتھنز”
  • Wolof: “Aten”
  • Wu Chinese: “雅典”
  • Yakut: “Атина”
  • Yiddish: “אטען”
  • Yoruba: “Áténì”
  • Yue Chinese: “雅典”
  • Zeeuws: “Athene”
  • Zulu: “I-Athene”
  • “Atiny”
  • “ma Asina”
  • “ma Atena”
  • “ma tomo Asina”
  • “ma tomo Atena”

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