Lesvos
Lesbos, or Lesvos, is the northernmost of the East Aegean Islands of Greece, projecting out of the Asia Minor mainland. It is a birthplace of numerous poets and writers since the Greek antiquity.
Wikimedia, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Mytilene.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pyrrha.
Lesvos
- Island with about 83,800 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 970 metres (3,180 feet)
- Description: Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea
- Also known as“Lesbos”“Mitilíni”“Mytilene”“Mytilini”
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
This page is based on GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Latitude
39.1667° or 39° 10′ north
Longitude
26.3333° or 26° 20′ east
UN/LOCODE
GR L83
Open location code
8GF8588M+M8
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lesvos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lesbos”
- Albanian: “Lesbos”
- Albanian: “Lesbosi”
- Amharic: “ለስቦስ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λέσβος”
- Arabic: “جزيرة لزبوس”
- Arabic: “جزيرة لسبوس”
- Arabic: “لزبوس”
- Arabic: “لسبوس”
- Arabic: “مدللي”
- Armenian: “Լեսբոս”
- Asturian: “Lesbos”
- Azerbaijani: “Lesbos”
- Azerbaijani: “Midilli”
- Basque: “Lesbos”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Лесбас”
- Belarusian: “Лесбас”
- Breton: “Lesbos”
- Bulgarian: “Лезбос”
- Bulgarian: “Лесбос”
- Catalan: “Lazba”
- Catalan: “Lazpas”
- Catalan: “Lesbos”
- Catalan: “Metel·lí”
- Catalan: “Metolí”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Lesbos”
- Cebuano: “Nísos Lésvos”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Lésvou”
- Central Bikol: “Lesbos”
- Central Kurdish: “لێزبۆس”
- Chinese: “列斯伏斯島”
- Chinese: “莱斯博斯岛”
- Chinese: “莱斯沃斯”
- Chinese: “莱斯沃斯岛”
- Chinese: “萊斯沃斯島”
- Corsican: “Lesbos”
- Corsican: “Lesbu”
- Croatian: “Lesbos”
- Croatian: “Lezb”
- Croatian: “Lezbos”
- Czech: “Lesbos (obec)”
- Czech: “Lesbos (ostrov)”
- Czech: “Lesbos (regionální jednotka)”
- Czech: “Lesbos”
- Czech: “Lesvos”
- Czech: “Obec Lesbos”
- Czech: “Ostrov Lesbos”
- Czech: “Regionální jednotka Lesbos”
- Danish: “Lesbos”
- Danish: “Lesvos”
- Danish: “Midilli”
- Dutch: “Lesbos”
- Dutch: “Lesvos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليسبوس”
- Esperanto: “Lesbo”
- Esperanto: “Lesbos”
- Esperanto: “Mitileno”
- Estonian: “Lesbos”
- Estonian: “Lésvos”
- Faroese: “Lesbos”
- Faroese: “Lesvos”
- Finnish: “Lesbos”
- Finnish: “Lesvos”
- French: “Île de Lesbos”
- French: “Lesbos”
- French: “Lesvos”
- Galician: “Lazba”
- Galician: “Lesbos”
- Georgian: “ლესბოსი”
- German: “Lazpa”
- German: “Lésbos”
- German: “Lesvos”
- Greek: “Λέσβος”
- Greek: “Μυτιλήνη”
- Greek: “Νομός Λέσβου”
- Hebrew: “לסבוס”
- Hungarian: “Leszbosz”
- Icelandic: “Lesbos”
- Indonesian: “Lesbos”
- Interlingua: “Lesbos”
- Interlingue: “Lesbos”
- Irish: “Lesbos”
- Italian: “Lesbo”
- Italian: “Lesbos”
- Italian: “Unità periferica di Lesbo”
- Italian: “Unità periferica di Lesbos”
- Japanese: “ミティリニ島”
- Japanese: “レスヴォス島”
- Japanese: “レスボス”
- Japanese: “レズボス島”
- Korean: “레스보스”
- Korean: “레스보스섬”
- Kurdish: “Lesbos”
- Kurdish: “لەسبۆس”
- Latin: “Lesbos”
- Latin: “Lesbus”
- Latvian: “Lesba”
- Lithuanian: “Lesbas”
- Macedonian: “Лезбос”
- Malay: “Lesbos”
- Marathi: “मिटिलिनी”
- Marathi: “लेस्बोस”
- Marathi: “लेस्व्होस”
- Neapolitan: “Lesbo”
- Northern Frisian: “Lesbos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lesbos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lesvar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lesver”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lésvos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lesbos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lésvos”
- Norwegian: “Lésvos”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lèsbos”
- Ossetian: “Лесбос”
- Persian: “لزبوس”
- Persian: “لسبوس”
- Polish: “Lesbos”
- Polish: “starożytna Lesbos”
- Portuguese: “Lesbos”
- Portuguese: “Lesvos”
- Romanian: “Lesbos”
- Russian: “Лацпас”
- Russian: “Лесбос”
- Sardinian: “Lesbos”
- Scots: “Lesbos”
- Serbian: “Lezbos”
- Serbian: “Лезбос”
- Serbian: “Лезвос”
- Serbian: “Лесвос”
- Serbian: “Острво Лезбос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lezbos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Lezbos”
- Sicilian: “Lesbos”
- Sicilian: “Lesbu”
- Slovak: “Lesbos”
- Slovak: “Lesvos”
- Slovenian: “Lesbos”
- Slovenian: “Lezbos”
- Spanish: “Isla de Lesbos”
- Spanish: “Lesbio”
- Spanish: “Lesbos”
- Swahili: “Lesbo”
- Swedish: “Lesbos”
- Swedish: “Lésvos”
- Swedish: “Midilli”
- Swedish: “Midylly”
- Tajik: “Lesbos”
- Tajik: “Лесбос”
- Tamil: “லெஸ்போஸ்”
- Tamil: “லெஸ்வோஸ்”
- Thai: “Lesbos”
- Thai: “เกาะเลสบอส”
- Thai: “เลสบอส”
- Turkish: “Lesbos Island”
- Turkish: “Lesbos”
- Turkish: “Lésvos”
- Turkish: “Midilli adası”
- Turkish: “Midilli”
- Ukrainian: “Лесбос”
- Urdu: “لزبوس”
- Uzbek: “Lesbos”
- Vietnamese: “Lesbos”
- Vietnamese: “Lesvos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lesbos”
- Welsh: “Lesbos”
- Welsh: “Lesvos”
- Welsh: “Ynys Lesbos”
- Western Frisian: “Lesbos”
- Western Panjabi: “لزبوس”
- Wu Chinese: “莱斯沃斯岛”
- Yue Chinese: “列斯伏斯島”
North Aegean Islands: Highlights
Learn more about Lemnos and Thasos.
“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”
Explore These Curated Destinations
Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.