Dodecanese
The Dodecanese are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited.
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Dodecanese
- Type: island group with 189,000 residents
- Description: group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “12 Ada”, “12 Adalar”, “Archipielago del Dodecaneso”, “Arhipelagul Dodecanez”, “Dhodhekánisos”, “Dodecanés”, “Dodecanèse”, “Dodécanese”, “Dodecanesos”, “Dodecanneso”, “Dodekaneiska öarna”, “Dodekaneserna”, “Dodekanesian saaret”, “Dodekanesian saaristo”, “Dodekanesiske Øer”, “Dodekanesiske øyer”, “Dodekaneské ostrovy”, “Dodekanéske ostrovy”, “Dodekanesoko uhartedia”, “Dodekanésos”, “Dodekánesos”, “Dodekanéz”, “Dodekanezo”, “Dodekanezos”, “Dodekanézske ostrovy”, “Dodekanézy”, “Dodekánisa”, “Dodekànisa”, “Dodekánisos”, “Dodekanoj”, “Dodekanské ostrovy”, “GR-81”, “Insulele dodecaneze”, “Islas del Dodecaneso”, “Isole del Dodecaneso”, “Nero Island”, “Nomós Dhodhekanísou”, “Nomos Dodecanese”, “On Iki Ada”, “Oniki Adalar”, “Onikiada”, “Prefektura Dodekani”, “Quần đảo Dodecanese”, “Tolvöarna”, “Δωδεκάνησος”, “Додеканезки острови”, “Додеканезские острова”, “Додеканесские острова”, “Додеканеські острови”, “Додекани”, “Додоканези”, “Паўднёвыя Спарады”, “Південні Споради”, “Префектура Додеканез”, “Префектура Додекани”, “Спорады Южные”, “Южни Споради”, “דודקאנס”, “דודקנז”, “דודקנס”, “האיים הדודקנסים”, “האיים הדוקדנסיים”, “ذوذيكانيسيا”, “ڈوڈکینیز”, “หมู่เกาะโดเดคะนีส”, “도데카네스”, “도데카네스 제도”, “도데카니사”, “도데카니사 주”, “도데카니사 현”, “도데카니소스”, “ドデカニーズ諸島”, “ドデカニサ”, “ドデカニサ諸島”, “ドデカネーズ”, “ドデカネーズ諸島”, “ドデカネーゼ”, “ドデカネーゼ諸島”, “ドデカネス”, “ドデカネス県”, “佐則卡尼薩群島”, “佐澤卡尼索斯”, “多得坎尼群岛”, “多德卡尼斯”, “多德卡尼斯群島”, “多德坎尼斯群岛”, and “杜德卡內斯”
- Location: South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
36.8433° or 36° 50′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
27.1481° or 27° 8′ 53″ east
Population
189,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dodecanese” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dodekanese”
- Afrikaans: “Dodekanesos”
- Albanian: “Dodekanes”
- Albanian: “Dodekanezi”
- Arabic: “دوديكانيسيا”
- Armenian: “Դոդեկանես”
- Asturian: “Archipiélagu del Dodecanesu”
- Azerbaijani: “Dodekanes adaları (On iki ada)”
- Azerbaijani: “Dodekanes adaları”
- Basque: “Dodekaneso”
- Belarusian: “Дадэканес”
- Breton: “Dodekanesa”
- Bulgarian: “Додеканези”
- Catalan: “Dodecanès”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Dodekanísou”
- Chinese: “佐泽卡尼索斯群岛”
- Chinese: “佐澤卡尼索斯群島”
- Corsican: “Dudicanesu”
- Croatian: “Dodekanez”
- Czech: “Dodekanés”
- Czech: “Dodekany”
- Danish: “Dodekaneserne”
- Dutch: “Dodekanesos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دوديكانيس”
- Esperanto: “Dodekanesoj”
- Estonian: “Dodekaneesid”
- Faroese: “Dodekanes”
- Finnish: “Dodekanesia”
- French: “Dodécanèse”
- Galician: “Dodecaneso - Δωδεκάνησα”
- Galician: “Dodecaneso”
- Georgian: “დოდეკანესის კუნძულები”
- German: “Dodekanes”
- Greek: “Dímos Ko”
- Greek: “Δήμος Κω”
- Greek: “Δωδεκάνησα”
- Greek: “Κως”
- Greek: “Νομός Δωδεκανήσου”
- Hebrew: “האיים הדודקאנסיים”
- Hungarian: “Dodekanészosz”
- Icelandic: “Tylftareyjar”
- Ido: “Dodekanes”
- Indonesian: “Dodekanisa”
- Irish: “Na hOileáin Dhóideacanacha”
- Italian: “Dodecaneso”
- Japanese: “ドデカネス諸島”
- Jèrriais: “Dodécanèse”
- Korean: “도데카니사 제도”
- Latin: “Dodecanesus”
- Latvian: “Dodekanesa”
- Lithuanian: “Dodekanesas”
- Macedonian: “Додеканези”
- Malay: “Dodecanese”
- Malay: “Dodekanisa”
- Mazanderani: “دودکانیس”
- Northern Frisian: “Dodekanes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dodekanesene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dodekanesane”
- Norwegian: “Dodekanesene”
- Persian: “دودکانس”
- Persian: “دودکانسا”
- Polish: “Dodekanez”
- Portuguese: “Dodecaneso”
- Romanian: “Dodecanez”
- Russian: “Додеканес”
- Russian: “Южные Спорады”
- Scots: “Dodecanese”
- Serbian: “Dodekanez”
- Serbian: “Додеканез”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dodekanez”
- Sicilian: “Dodecannesu”
- Slovak: “Dodekanisa”
- Slovenian: “Dodekanez”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago del Dodecaneso”
- Spanish: “Dodecaneso”
- Swedish: “Dodekanesos”
- Swedish: “Dodekanisos”
- Thai: “โดเดคะนีส”
- Turkish: “On İki Ada”
- Turkish: “Oniki Ada”
- Ukrainian: “Додеканес”
- Urdu: “جزائر دؤدیکانیز”
- Urdu: “جزائر ڈوڈکینیز”
- Vietnamese: “Dodecanese”
- Vietnamese: “Dodekanisa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dodekanesa”
- Welsh: “Dodecanese”
- Western Armenian: “Տոտեքանիսա”
- Western Panjabi: “جزائر ڈوکینیز”
- Wu Chinese: “十二群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “十二群島”
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