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Kos

Kos is a popular tourist destination in the islands of the , located in the south-eastern part of the Aegean Sea, near the coast.
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  • Type: City with 19,400 residents
  • Description: Greek island
  • Also known as: “Cos”, “Istan-Keui”, “Kos Island”, and “Nisi Kos”
  • Postal code: 85300
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Plane tree of Hippocrates and Ancient Agora.

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The Tree of Hippocrates is the plane tree under which, according to legend, Hippocrates of Kos taught his pupils the art of medicine. Paul of Tarsus purportedly taught here as well.

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Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kos Asklepieion.

Locality
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is a locality.

Kos

Latitude
36.894° or 36° 53′ 39″ north
Longitude
27.2867° or 27° 17′ 12″ east
Population
19,400
Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)
Open location code
8G89V7VP+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 28490587
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
259244
Wiki­data ID
Q187027
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Satellite Map

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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kos”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.