Karpathos
Karpathos, also Carpathos, is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality of Karpathos, which is part of the regional unit Karpathos-Kasos.
Photo: Rafu, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 6,570 residents
- Description: Greek island
- Also known as: “Amopi”, “Carpathos”, “Carpato”, “Cárpato”, “Đảo Karpathos”, “Dimos Karpathos”, “Карпафос”, “קרפתוס”, “جزيرة كربة”, “قرباتوس”, “كارباثوس”, “كربة (جزيرة)”, “كرپه آطەسی”, “เกาะคาร์พาทอส”, “カルパソス”, “カルパソス島”, “カルパトス”, “スカルパント”, “スカルパント島”, and “喀帕苏斯岛”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Apella.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mesochori and Sokastro.
Karpathos
- Category: island
- Location: Dodecanese, South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.6133° or 35° 36′ 48″ north
Longitude
27.1181° or 27° 7′ 5″ east
Population
6,570
Elevation
959 metres (3,146 feet)
Open location code
8G79J479+86
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Karpathos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Karpatos”
- Arabic: “كربة”
- Basque: “Karpatos”
- Belarusian: “Карпатас”
- Breton: “Karpathos”
- Bulgarian: “Карпатос”
- Catalan: “Càrpatos”
- Cebuano: “Nisí Kárpathos”
- Central Kurdish: “کارباتوس”
- Chinese: “卡尔帕索斯岛”
- Chinese: “卡爾帕索斯島”
- Croatian: “Karpatos”
- Czech: “Karpathos”
- Danish: “Kárpathos”
- Dutch: “Karpathos”
- Esperanto: “Karpathos”
- Estonian: “Kárpathose saar”
- Finnish: “Kárpathos”
- French: “Karpathos”
- French: “Kárpathos”
- Galician: “Karpathos - Κάρπαθος”
- Galician: “Karpathos”
- German: “Karpathos”
- Greek: “Κάρπαθος”
- Greek: “Καρπάθου”
- Hebrew: “קרפאתוס”
- Hungarian: “Kárpathosz”
- Hungarian: “Kárpáthosz”
- Indonesian: “Karpathos”
- Interlingua: “Karpathos”
- Italian: “Scarpanto”
- Japanese: “カルパトス島”
- Korean: “카르파토스섬”
- Latin: “Carpathus”
- Latvian: “Karpata”
- Limburgan: “Karpathos”
- Lithuanian: “Karpatas”
- Macedonian: “Карпатос”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Karpatos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karpathos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kárpathos”
- Norwegian: “Kárpathos”
- Persian: “کارپاتوس”
- Polish: “Karpathos”
- Polish: “Karpatos”
- Portuguese: “Cárpatos”
- Quechua: “Karpathus”
- Romanian: “Karpathos”
- Russian: “Карпатос”
- Serbian: “Karpatos”
- Serbian: “Карпатос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karpatos”
- Slovak: “Karpathos”
- Slovenian: “Karpatos”
- Spanish: “Kárpatos”
- Swedish: “Karpathos”
- Thai: “คาร์พาทอส”
- Turkish: “Kerpe Adası”
- Turkish: “Kerpe”
- Ukrainian: “Карпатос”
- Urdu: “کارپاتھوس”
- Vietnamese: “Karpathos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karpathos”
- Western Armenian: “Քարբաթոս”
- Western Armenian: “Քարփաթոս”
- Western Frisian: “Karpatos”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ρόκλι and Αγριόλακκος.
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