Chios
Chios is a region of Greece, an island in the Aegean Sea 8 km off the Turkish coasts. The population is about 54,000, with an area of 904 km². Chios or Chora is a port and the island's chief town.
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Top destinations: Chios and Mastichochoria.
Chios
Chios is the main town and a former municipality on the Greek island of Chios in the North Aegean.
Chios
- Type: Locality with 51,800 residents
- Description: Greek island in the Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Chîo”, “Chios Island”, “Chiu”, “Chius”, “Đảo Chios”, “Dimos Chios”, “Girava Xîos”, “Girava Xiyos”, “Híos”, “Ĥios”, “Ilha de Quios”, “Ilha de Quíos”, “Illa de Quios”, “Illa del Xiu”, “Isla de Quios”, “islla de Quíos”, “Khios prefektur”, “Khiosz”, “Kos”, “Prefectura de Quios”, “Quio”, “Sakiz”, “Scio”, “Агиос Минас”, “Амани”, “Йония”, “Камбохора”, “Кардамила”, “Мастихохория”, “Острво Хиос”, “Сакыз”, “חיוס”, “ساقز”, “کیوس”, “키오스”, “키오스 섬”, “키오스섬”, “히오스”, “キオス”, “キオス島”, “ヒオス”, “基俄斯”, “巧斯岛”, and “希阿岛”
- Categories: island and polis
- Location: Chios, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
38.402° or 38° 24′ 7″ north
Longitude of center
26.0165° or 26° 0′ 59″ east
Population
51,800
Elevation
268 metres (879 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Chios” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Chios”
- Albanian: “Hiosi”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Χίος”
- Arabic: “خيوس”
- Armenian: “Խիոս”
- Armenian: “Քիոս”
- Asturian: “Quíos”
- Azerbaijani: “Xios”
- Basque: “Kios”
- Belarusian: “Хіас”
- Belarusian: “Хіяс”
- Breton: “C’hios”
- Bulgarian: “Хиос”
- Catalan: “Quios”
- Cebuano: “Nisí Chíos”
- Central Kurdish: “خیوس”
- Chinese: “希俄斯岛”
- Chinese: “希俄斯島”
- Croatian: “Hij”
- Czech: “Chios”
- Danish: “Chios”
- Dutch: “Chios”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خيوس”
- Esperanto: “Ĥio”
- Estonian: “Chíos”
- Estonian: “Chíose saar”
- Extremaduran: “Quiu”
- Finnish: “Chíos”
- French: “Chios”
- French: “Chíos”
- Galician: “Quíos”
- Georgian: “ქიოსი”
- German: “Chios”
- Greek: “Χίος”
- Greek: “Χίου”
- Hebrew: “כיוס”
- Hungarian: “Híosz”
- Ido: “Insulo Hios”
- Igbo: “Chios”
- Indonesian: “Khios”
- Interlingua: “Chios”
- Irish: “Cíos”
- Italian: “Chio”
- Japanese: “ヒオス島”
- Korean: “히오스섬”
- Kurdish: “Xiyos”
- Kurdish: “خیۆس”
- Latin: “Chios”
- Latvian: “Hija”
- Ligurian: “Scîo”
- Lithuanian: “Chijas”
- Luxembourgish: “Chios”
- Macedonian: “Хиос”
- Malay: “Chios”
- Malay: “Khios”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gĭ-ŏ̤”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khios”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khíos”
- Norwegian: “Khíos”
- Ossetian: “Хиос”
- Persian: “خیوس”
- Polish: “Chios”
- Portuguese: “Quios”
- Romanian: “Insula Chios”
- Russian: “Хиос”
- Scots: “Chios”
- Serbian: “Hios”
- Serbian: “Хиос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hios”
- Sicilian: “Chios”
- Slovak: “Chios”
- Slovenian: “Hios”
- Slovenian: “Ios”
- Spanish: “Isla de Quíos”
- Swahili: “Kios”
- Swedish: “Chios”
- Thai: “ไคออส”
- Turkish: “Sakız Adası”
- Turkish: “Sakız”
- Ukrainian: “Хіос”
- Urdu: “خیوس”
- Venetian: “Sio”
- Vietnamese: “Chios”
- Vietnamese: “Khios”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khios”
- Welsh: “Chios”
- Western Frisian: “Gios”
- Wu Chinese: “希俄斯”
- Yue Chinese: “希俄斯”
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