Kos
Kos is a popular tourist destination in the Greek islands of the Dodecanese, located in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea, near the Turkish coast.
- City with 19,400 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 56 metres (184 feet)
- Description: Greek island
- Postal code: 85300
- Also known as“Cos”“Istan-Keui”“Kos Island”“Nisi Kos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Plane tree of Hippocrates and Archaeological Museum of Kos.
Plane tree of Hippocrates
The Tree of Hippocrates is the plane tree under which…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kos Asklepieion.
Kos Asklepieion
Locality
The Temple of Asclepius or Asclepieion of Kos was one…
Kos
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Latitude
36.894° or 36° 53′ 39″ north
Longitude
27.2867° or 27° 17′ 12″ east
Open location code
8G89V7VP+JM
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kos (eiland)”
- Afrikaans: “Kos”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κῶς”
- Arabic: “جزيرة كوس”
- Arabic: “كوس”
- Armenian: “Կոս (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Կոս”
- Asturian: “Kos”
- Azerbaijani: “Kos”
- Basque: “Kos”
- Belarusian: “Кос”
- Bengali: “কস”
- Bosnian: “Kos”
- Breton: “Kos”
- Bulgarian: “Кос”
- Catalan: “Cos”
- Catalan: “illa de Cos”
- Catalan: “Kos”
- Cebuano: “Nísos Kos”
- Chinese: “科斯岛”
- Chinese: “科斯島”
- Croatian: “Kos”
- Czech: “Kós”
- Danish: “Kos”
- Dutch: “Kos”
- Esperanto: “Koo”
- Esperanto: “Kos”
- Estonian: “Kos”
- Faroese: “Kos”
- Finnish: “Kos”
- French: “Cos”
- French: “Île de Cos”
- French: “Kos”
- Galician: “Cos, Grecia”
- Galician: “Cos”
- Galician: “Kos”
- Galician: “Κως”
- German: “Kos”
- German: “Kós”
- Greek: “Nisí Kos”
- Greek: “Κως (νησί)”
- Greek: “Κως”
- Greek: “Κώς”
- Greek: “Νησί Κως”
- Greek: “Νήσος Κως”
- Gujarati: “કોસ”
- Hebrew: “קוס”
- Hindi: “कोस”
- Hungarian: “Kosz”
- Icelandic: “Kos”
- Indonesian: “Kos”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Kos”
- Interlingue: “Kos”
- Irish: “Kos”
- Italian: “Coo”
- Italian: “Cos”
- Italian: “Isola di Coo”
- Italian: “Kos”
- Japanese: “コース島”
- Japanese: “コス (ギリシャ)”
- Japanese: “コス島”
- Kannada: “ಕೋಸ್”
- Korean: “코스섬”
- Latin: “Coos”
- Latin: “Cos”
- Latin: “Cous”
- Latvian: “Kosa”
- Limburgan: “Kos”
- Lithuanian: “Kosas”
- Malagasy: “Nosy Kos”
- Malay: “Kos”
- Marathi: “कोस”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gŏ̤-sê̤ṳ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “İstanköy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stanchio”
- Norwegian: “Kos”
- Persian: “جزیره کوس”
- Persian: “کوس”
- Polish: “Kos”
- Portuguese: “Cós”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Cós”
- Portuguese: “Kos”
- Romanian: “Kos”
- Russian: “Кос”
- Scots: “Kos”
- Serbian: “Kos”
- Serbian: “Кос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kos”
- Sinhala: “කොස්”
- Slovak: “Kos”
- Slovenian: “Kos”
- Slovenian: “Κως”
- Spanish: “Cos”
- Spanish: “Isla de cos”
- Spanish: “Kos”
- Swahili: “Kos”
- Swedish: “Kos”
- Tamil: “காஸ்”
- Telugu: “కాస్”
- Thai: “โกส”
- Thai: “คอส”
- Turkish: “İstanköy Adası”
- Turkish: “İstanköy”
- Turkish: “Kos”
- Ukrainian: “Кос”
- Urdu: “کوس”
- Uzbek: “Kos”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Kos”
- Vietnamese: “Kos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kos”
- Welsh: “Kos”
- Western Armenian: “Քոս”
- Western Frisian: “Kos”
- Wu Chinese: “科斯岛”
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