Kalymnos
Kalymnos is an island in the Dodecanese group of the South Aegean Islands of Greece. It is known for its sunshine and limestone rock climbing cliffs.
- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: Greek island
- Also known as: “Calidna”, “Calimna”, “Càlimnos”, “Càlino”, “Calydna”, “Calymna”, “Dimos Kalymnos”, “Kalydna”, “Kalymna”, “Pothia”, “Κάλυδνα”, and “Κάλυμνα”
- Postal code: 85200
Places of Interest
Highlights: Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos and Chrysocheria Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vathys.
Kalymnos
- Categories: island, polis, and locality
- Location: Dodecanese, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
36.9516° or 36° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
26.9821° or 26° 58′ 56″ east
Population
12,300
Elevation
78 metres (256 feet)
Open location code
8G88XX2J+JR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Kalymnos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوثيا”
- Arabic: “كاليمنوس”
- Armenian: “Կալիմնոս (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Կալիմնոս”
- Basque: “Kalymnos”
- Bulgarian: “Калимнос”
- Catalan: “Kàlimnos”
- Cebuano: “Kalymnos Island”
- Chinese: “卡利姆诺斯岛”
- Croatian: “Kalimnos”
- Czech: “Kalymnos”
- Czech: “Pothia”
- Danish: “Kalymnos”
- Dutch: “Kalymnos”
- Dutch: “Pothia”
- Finnish: “Kálymnos”
- Finnish: “Póthia”
- French: “Kalymnos”
- French: “Póthia”
- Galician: “Kálimnos - Κάλυμνος”
- Galician: “Kálimnos”
- German: “Kalymnos”
- Greek: “Καλυμνίων”
- Greek: “Κάλυμνος”
- Greek: “Πόθια”
- Hebrew: “קלימנוס”
- Hungarian: “Kálimnosz”
- Italian: “Calimno”
- Italian: “Pothia”
- Japanese: “カリムノス島”
- Korean: “칼림노스섬”
- Latin: “Calymnos”
- Latvian: “Kalimna”
- Macedonian: “Калимнос”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalymnos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kálymnos”
- Norwegian: “Kalymnos”
- Persian: “کلیمنوس”
- Polish: “Kalimnos”
- Portuguese: “Calimnos”
- Portuguese: “Calímnos”
- Romanian: “Kalymnos”
- Russian: “Калимнос”
- Russian: “Потия”
- Serbian: “Калимнос”
- Serbian: “Потија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kalimnos”
- Slovenian: “Kalymnos”
- Spanish: “Kálimnos”
- Swedish: “Kalymnos”
- Swedish: “Pothia”
- Turkish: “Kelemez”
- Ukrainian: “Калімнос”
- Urdu: “کالیمنوس”
- Vietnamese: “Kalymnos”
- Western Armenian: “Քալիմնոս”
- Western Frisian: “Kalymnos”
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