Chios
Chios is the main town and a former municipality on the island of Chios, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Chios, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 23,800 residents
- Description: Greek town on the homonymous island
- Also known as: “Castro”, “Chíos”, “Kastron”, “Khóra”, “Scio”, and “Xíos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Byzantine Museum and Archaeological Museum of Chios.
Byzantine Museum
Museum
Photo: Balkanique, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Chios Byzantine Museum is a museum in Chios, Greece, housed in an Ottoman-era mosque that was known as the Mecidiye Mosque.
Archaeological Museum of Chios
Museum
The Archaeological Museum of Chios is a museum located on Michalon Street in Chios town, Chios, Greece. Designed by the Greek architects Souzána Antonakáki and Dimitris Antonakakis & Eleni Gousi-Desylla in 1965, it has been widely regarded as a significant building in the architectural history of modern Greece.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vrontados and Dafnonas.
Vrontados
Town
Photo: RomkeHoekstra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vrontados is a small coastal town located at the eastern part of the island of Chios in Greece. With a population of about 5,300 the town hosts the seat of the municipal unit of Omiroupoli. Vrontados is situated 4 km north of Chios.
Dafnonas
Village
Photo: Spartacos31, CC BY 4.0.
Dafnonas is a village on the center of the island of Chios, located in the North Aegean Islands region of Greece. Its population was 366 as of the 2021 census. Dafnonas is situated 5 km southwest of Chios.
Karfas
Village
Photo: CostasTheGreek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karfas is a small town on the island of Chios, Greece. Located 7 kilometers south of Chios, Karfas is among the most popular destinations on the Island, attracting high amounts of tourism due to its cosmopolitan beaches, studios, residences, clubs, restaurants, and general nightlife. Karfas is situated 6 km south of Chios.
Chios
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.3722° or 38° 22′ 20″ northLongitude
26.133° or 26° 7′ 59″ eastPopulation
23,800Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)IATA airport code
JKHUnited Nations Location Code
GR JKHOpen location code
8GC894CM+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 2370546748OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
259973Wikidata ID
Q748832
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chios” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خيوس”
- Armenian: “Խիոս (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Խիոս”
- Asturian: “Chios”
- Bulgarian: “Хиос”
- Catalan: “el Xiu”
- Catalan: “Quios (ciutat)”
- Catalan: “Quios”
- Catalan: “Quíos”
- Cebuano: “Chios”
- Chinese: “希俄斯 (城镇)”
- Chinese: “希俄斯”
- Chinese: “希俄斯市”
- Chuvash: “Хиос (хула)”
- Chuvash: “Хиос”
- Croatian: “Hios”
- Dutch: “Chios”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خيوس”
- Estonian: “Chíos”
- Finnish: “Chíos”
- French: “Chios”
- German: “Chios”
- Greek: “Chíos”
- Greek: “Chora”
- Greek: “Chóra”
- Greek: “Kástro”
- Greek: “Καστρο”
- Greek: “Κάστρο”
- Greek: “Χίος”
- Greek: “Χωρα”
- Greek: “Χώρα”
- Hindi: “चिओस”
- Hungarian: “Híosz”
- Italian: “Chio”
- Italian: “Chios”
- Japanese: “ヒオス”
- Korean: “히오스”
- Kurdish: “Xiyos”
- Latin: “Chios”
- Ligurian: “Scîo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khios”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khíos by”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khíos”
- Norwegian: “Khios”
- Norwegian: “Khíos”
- Persian: “خیوس (شهر)”
- Persian: “خیوس”
- Polish: “Chios”
- Portuguese: “Quio”
- Portuguese: “Quios”
- Romanian: “Chios”
- Russian: “Хиос”
- Serbian: “Hios”
- Serbian: “Хиос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hios”
- Slovenian: “Hios”
- Spanish: “Quios”
- Spanish: “Quíos”
- Swedish: “Chios”
- Turkish: “Sakız”
- Ukrainian: “Хіос”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chios”
- Yue Chinese: “希俄斯市”
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