Corfu Town
Corfu or Kerkyra is a city and a former municipality on the island of Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Central Corfu and Diapontian Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 39,500 residents
- Description: capital of the Greek island and municipality of Corfu
- Also known as: “Corfu” and “Kerkyra”
- Postal code: 49100
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Corfu International Airport, Ioannis Kapodistrias and Old Fortress.
Corfu International Airport, Ioannis Kapodistrias
Aerodrome
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corfu International Airport "Ioannis Kapodistrias" or Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport is a government-owned airport on the Greek island of Corfu at Kerkyra, serving both scheduled and charter flights from European cities.
Old Fortress
Photo: Tasoskessaris, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Old Fortress of Corfu is a Venetian fortress in the city of Corfu. The fortress covers the promontory which initially contained the old town of Corfu that had emerged during Byzantine times.
New Fortress
Photo: Florival fr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The New Fortress of Corfu is a Venetian fortress built on the hill of St. Mark in Corfu in stages. The original architect of the fort was the military engineer Ferrante Vitelli.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alepou and Kanali.
Alepou
Suburb
Alepou is a Greek town adjacent to the city of Corfu. Alepou was established as a settlement on 28 January 1866 by publication of the decision in the Greek government gazette.
Kanali
Quarter
Kanali or Kanalion is a town on the island of Corfu, Greece. It is a community of the city of Corfu, and part of the municipality Central Corfu and Diapontian Islands.
Corfu Town
- Category: locality
- Location: Corfu, Central Corfu, Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.6217° or 39° 37′ 18″ northLongitude
19.9181° or 19° 55′ 5″ eastPopulation
39,500Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
CFUUnited Nations Location Code
GR CFUOpen location code
8FFXJWC9+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1827940532OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2463679Wikidata ID
Q205832
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Corfu Town” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Korfu”
- Albanian: “Korfuzi”
- Arabic: “قرفس”
- Arabic: “كورفو”
- Arabic: “كيركيرا، كيركيرا”
- Arabic: “كيركيرا”
- Arabic: “مدينة كورفو”
- Armenian: “Կերկիրա”
- Asturian: “Corfu”
- Azerbaijani: “Kerkira”
- Azerbaijani: “Korfu”
- Basque: “Korfu”
- Belarusian: “Керкіра (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Керкіра”
- Bengali: “কুরফু”
- Bulgarian: “Корфу”
- Catalan: “Corfú”
- Cebuano: “Kérkyra”
- Chinese: “克基拉”
- Chinese: “克基拉市”
- Croatian: “Krf”
- Czech: “Kérkira”
- Czech: “Kerkyra”
- Czech: “Korfu”
- Danish: “Korfu”
- Dutch: “Corcyra”
- Dutch: “Corfu”
- Dutch: “Kerkira”
- Dutch: “Kérkira”
- Dutch: “Kerkyra”
- Dutch: “Kérkyra”
- Dutch: “Korfoe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كورفو”
- Esperanto: “Kerkira”
- Esperanto: “Korfuo”
- Estonian: “Kérkyra”
- Finnish: “Korfu”
- French: “Corfou-ville”
- French: “Corfou”
- French: “Kerkyra”
- French: “Ville de Corfou”
- Galician: “Corfú, Corfú”
- Galician: “Corfú”
- Georgian: “კერკირა”
- German: “Korfu Stadt”
- German: “Korfu-Stadt”
- German: “Korfu”
- Greek: “Kérkyra”
- Greek: “Κέρκυρα”
- Gujarati: “કોર્ફુ”
- Hebrew: “קורפו טאון”
- Hebrew: “קורפו”
- Hindi: “कोरफू”
- Hungarian: “Korfu”
- Ido: “Kerkira”
- Indonesian: “Kerkyra”
- Irish: “Corfu”
- Italian: “Corfù”
- Japanese: “ケルキューラ”
- Japanese: “ケルキュア”
- Japanese: “ケルキュラ”
- Japanese: “ケルキラ”
- Japanese: “コルキュア”
- Japanese: “コルキュラ”
- Japanese: “コルフ”
- Japanese: “コルフ旧市街”
- Kannada: “ಕೋರ್ಫು”
- Kirghiz: “Керкира”
- Korean: “케르키라”
- Korean: “코르푸”
- Latin: “Corcyra”
- Latvian: “Korfu”
- Lithuanian: “Kerkyra”
- Macedonian: “Крф”
- Malay: “Corfu”
- Malayalam: “കോർഫു”
- Marathi: “कॉर्फ्यु”
- Moksha: “Кэркира”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Korfu by”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kérkyra by”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Korfu by”
- Norwegian: “Korfu”
- Persian: “شهر کورفو”
- Polish: “Korfu”
- Portuguese: “Corfu”
- Portuguese: “Kerkyra”
- Romanian: “Corfu”
- Romanian: “Kerkyra”
- Russian: “Керкира”
- Russian: “Корфу”
- Scots: “Corfu”
- Serbian: “Krf”
- Serbian: “Крф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krf”
- Sinhala: “කොර්ෆු”
- Slovak: “Korfu”
- Slovenian: “Krf”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Corfu”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Corfú”
- Spanish: “Corfu”
- Spanish: “Corfú”
- Swedish: “Korfu”
- Tamil: “கோர்பியூ”
- Telugu: “కోర్ఫ్యూ”
- Thai: “คอร์ฟู”
- Turkish: “Korfu”
- Ukrainian: “Керкіра”
- Ukrainian: “Корфу”
- Ukrainian: “Місто Керкіра”
- Urdu: “کورفو”
- Vietnamese: “Corfu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Corfu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kerkyra”
- Yiddish: “קארפו”
- Yiddish: “קארפֿו”
- Yue Chinese: “克基拉”
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