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Chios

Chios

Chios is a region of , an island in the Aegean Sea 8 km off the Turkish coasts. The population is about 54,000, with an area of 904 km². is a port and the island's chief town.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Chios and Mastichochoria.

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is the main town and a former municipality on the island of , , . Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit.

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is an agricultural area in the island of Chios. It is the most prominent producer of the mastic, a resin obtained from the domesticated mastic tree; in fact, the tree is endemic to this area and, thus, the resin grown there has a PDO status.

Photo: Kostisl, Public domain.
is a Greek traditional village on the island of Chios. It belongs to the Mastic Villages, a group of villages in South Chios where the main activity is the manufacture of mastic.

Chios

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)
Geo­Names ID
8133821
Wiki­data ID
Q160483
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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”
  • Arabic: “ساقز”
  • Armenian: “Խիոս”
  • Armenian: “Քիոս”
  • Asturian: “islla de Quíos”
  • Asturian: “Quíos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xios”
  • Basque: “Kios”
  • Basque: “Kos”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Хіас”
  • Belarusian: “Хіяс”
  • Breton: “C’hios”
  • Bulgarian: “Агиос Минас”
  • Bulgarian: “Амани”
  • Bulgarian: “Йония”
  • Bulgarian: “Камбохора”
  • Bulgarian: “Кардамила”
  • Bulgarian: “Мастихохория”
  • Bulgarian: “Хиос”
  • Catalan: “Chios”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Quios”
  • Catalan: “Illa del Xiu”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura de Quios”
  • Catalan: “Quios”
  • Catalan: “Sakiz”
  • Catalan: “Sakız”
  • Cebuano: “Nisí Chíos”
  • Central Kurdish: “خیوس”
  • Chinese: “基俄斯”
  • Chinese: “巧斯岛”
  • Chinese: “希俄斯”
  • Chinese: “希俄斯岛”
  • Chinese: “希俄斯島”
  • Chinese: “希阿岛”
  • Croatian: “Hij”
  • Croatian: “Hios”
  • Croatian: “Khíos”
  • Croatian: “Kios”
  • Czech: “Chios”
  • Danish: “Chios”
  • Danish: “Χίος”
  • Dutch: “Chios”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خيوس”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥio”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥios”
  • Estonian: “Chios”
  • Estonian: “Chíos”
  • Estonian: “Chíose saar”
  • Extremaduran: “Quios”
  • Extremaduran: “Quiu”
  • Finnish: “Chíos”
  • Finnish: “Híos”
  • Finnish: “Khios”
  • French: “Chios”
  • French: “Chíos”
  • Galician: “Quíos”
  • Georgian: “ქიოსი”
  • German: “Chios”
  • German: “Khios”
  • Greek: “Χίος”
  • Greek: “Χίου”
  • Hebrew: “חיוס”
  • Hebrew: “כיוס”
  • Hungarian: “Híosz”
  • Hungarian: “Khiosz”
  • Ido: “Insulo Hios”
  • Igbo: “Chios”
  • Indonesian: “Chios”
  • Indonesian: “Khios”
  • Interlingua: “Chios”
  • Irish: “Chios”
  • Irish: “Cíos”
  • Italian: “Chio”
  • Japanese: “キオス”
  • Japanese: “キオス島”
  • Japanese: “ヒオス”
  • Japanese: “ヒオス島”
  • Korean: “키오스 섬”
  • Korean: “키오스”
  • Korean: “키오스섬”
  • Korean: “히오스”
  • Korean: “히오스섬”
  • Kurdish: “Chios”
  • Kurdish: “Girava Xîos”
  • Kurdish: “Girava Xiyos”
  • Kurdish: “Xiyos”
  • Kurdish: “خیۆس”
  • Latin: “Chios”
  • Latin: “Chius”
  • Latvian: “Hija”
  • Ligurian: “Chîo”
  • Ligurian: “Chios”
  • Ligurian: “Scîo”
  • Lithuanian: “Chijas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chios”
  • Macedonian: “Хиос”
  • Malay: “Chios”
  • Malay: “Khios”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gĭ-ŏ̤”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chios”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khios”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khíos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kios”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chio”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chios”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hios”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Híos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khios prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khios”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khíos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakiz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scio”
  • Norwegian: “Khíos”
  • Ossetian: “Хиос”
  • Persian: “خیوس”
  • Persian: “کیوس”
  • Polish: “Chios”
  • Polish: “Chíos”
  • Portuguese: “Chios”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Quios”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Quíos”
  • Portuguese: “Quio”
  • Portuguese: “Quios”
  • Portuguese: “Quíos”
  • Romanian: “Insula Chios”
  • Romanian: “Khios”
  • Romanian: “Khíos”
  • Russian: “Сакыз”
  • Russian: “Хиос”
  • Scots: “Chios”
  • Serbian: “Chios”
  • Serbian: “Hios”
  • Serbian: “Острво Хиос”
  • Serbian: “Хиос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hios”
  • Sicilian: “Chios”
  • Sicilian: “Chiu”
  • Slovak: “Chios”
  • Slovenian: “Hios”
  • Slovenian: “Ios”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Quios”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Quíos”
  • Spanish: “Quios”
  • Spanish: “Quíos”
  • Swahili: “Kios”
  • Swedish: “Chios”
  • Swedish: “Chíos”
  • Swedish: “Hios”
  • Swedish: “Híos”
  • Swedish: “Khios”
  • Swedish: “Khíos”
  • Swedish: “Kios”
  • Thai: “ไคออส”
  • Turkish: “Chios”
  • Turkish: “Khios”
  • Turkish: “Kios”
  • Turkish: “Sakız Adası”
  • Turkish: “Sakız”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіос”
  • Urdu: “خیوس”
  • Venetian: “Chio”
  • Venetian: “Sio”
  • Vietnamese: “Chios”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Chios”
  • Vietnamese: “Hios”
  • Vietnamese: “Híos”
  • Vietnamese: “Khios”
  • Vietnamese: “Khíos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Khios”
  • Welsh: “Chios”
  • Western Frisian: “Gios”
  • Wu Chinese: “希俄斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “希俄斯”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Chios”. Photo: Cllueca, CC BY-SA 3.0.