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Macedonia is a geographic and historical region in . Although it has very scenic areas and many very interesting cultural sites, it is visited by relatively few tourists, except the and Olympos region.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Thessaloniki and Mount Athos.

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is the capital of the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the whole historical region of Macedonia, Greece, and is, at about one million inhabitants, the second largest city in the country.

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is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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is a city in Macedonia. is one of the most beautiful smaller cities in Greece offering a wide range of places of interest for tourism. A wealth of possibilities for excursions in the surrounding area, many beautiful not overcrowded beaches, archaeological sites and many places of natural beauty makes it a fun-filled vacation destination.

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is one of the main tourist areas of Greece. It is a wide peninsula of that extends as three narrower peninsulas, as a whole forming the shape of a trident, or a three-fingered hand.

is a city with a population of just over 70,000 in northern , capital of West Macedonia periphery, between and .

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The Lake is located on the of , and . It is a system of two lakes separated by an isthmus: the Great Lake, divided between the three countries, and the Little Lake, mostly within Greece.

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Sérres is a city in Macedonia, . It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km northeast of the Macedonian capital, .

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is a city in in the region of . It is the capital of regional unit, in the geographic region of Macedonia.

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is a town of fewer than 20,000 people in West Macedonia, northern in . is the gateway to the Prespa Lakes and it is a useful staging post from into Greece.

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is an archaeological site in Macedonian Greece. It belongs since 2016 to UNESCO World Heritage List.

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, known until 1923 as Vodena, is a city in northern Greece and the capital of the , in the region of .

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is a city and municipality in Macedonia, northeastern . is the capital of the regional unit of which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace region.

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is a town of Central Macedonia and the capital of the County of . The archaeological site of , some 12 km from the city center, is the main tourist draw in the area.

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is a small town in , part of the municipality in , . was established in 1922 in the aftermath of the population exchanges after the Treaty of Lausanne and was a separate municipality until 2011, when it was merged with Veroia under the Kallikratis Plan.

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was an important ancient Greek polis, and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen. It gave its name to the modern municipality of , in the of .

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is a town and a former municipality in , , . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Eordaia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

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, officially The Heroic City of , is a city in the regional unit of , . It is located at the foot of the .

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is a town and a former municipality in the southern part of the , Macedonia, . Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the Dio-Olympos municipality, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

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Pangaio is a municipality in the Kavala regional unit, Macedonian Greece, named after the . The seat of the municipality is in Eleftheroupoli.

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National Park of Delta and lakes Vistonida-Ismarida is in East Macedonia in northern Greece.

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Aridaía is a town and a former municipality in the , . Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality, of which it is a municipal unit.

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Platamon, or , is a town and sea-side resort in south , , . Platamon has a population of about 2,000 permanent inhabitants. It is part of the Municipal unit of East Olympos of the Dio-Olympos municipality.

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is a holiday beach town in Macedonia in . For many tourists it is just a stopover for the ferry to Thasos, but it has beautiful long sandy beaches, plenty of accommodation and restaurants, and many attractions in the area.

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is a municipality in the of , . The capital of the municipality is , the largest town of the regional unit. On the site of the ancient city of is the Archaeological Museum of .

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is a small town of about 3,000 inhabitants in . and the neighboring village Nea Vrasna are popular places at the seaside in Macedonia between and , with beautiful beaches.

Macedonia

Latitude of center
40.65° or 40° 39′ north
Longitude of center
22.4° or 22° 24′ east
Population
2,380,000
Wiki­data ID
Q81734
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Macedonia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Masedonië”
  • Albanian: “Maqedonia e Egjeut”
  • Albanian: “Maqedonia”
  • Arabic: “مقدونيا”
  • Armenian: “Մակեդոնիա”
  • Asturian: “Macedonia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yunanıstan Makedoniyası”
  • Bashkir: “Македония (Греция)”
  • Bashkir: “Македония”
  • Basque: “Mazedonia”
  • Belarusian: “Македонія”
  • Bengali: “Μακεδονία”
  • Bengali: “প্রজাতন্ত্রী মেসিডোনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মাসেডোনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “মেসিডোনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাসিডোনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাসেডোনিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Egejska Makedonija”
  • Bosnian: “Makedonija”
  • Breton: “Makedonia”
  • Bulgarian: “Беломорска Македония”
  • Bulgarian: “Гръцка Македония”
  • Bulgarian: “Егейска Македония”
  • Bulgarian: “Южна Македония”
  • Catalan: “Macedònia grega”
  • Catalan: “Macedònia”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەقدۆنیا”
  • Chinese: “馬其頓尼亞”
  • Chinese: “马其顿”
  • Chinese: “马其顿区”
  • Chinese: “马其顿大区”
  • Croatian: “Egejska Makedonija”
  • Croatian: “Makedonija”
  • Czech: “Makedonie”
  • Danish: “Græsk Makedonien”
  • Danish: “Makedonien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Makedonya”
  • Dutch: “Macedonië”
  • Esperanto: “Greka Makedonujo”
  • Esperanto: “Makedonio”
  • Esperanto: “Makedonujo”
  • Estonian: “Makedoonia”
  • Finnish: “Makedonia”
  • French: “Macedoine egeenne”
  • French: “Macédoine Egéénne”
  • French: “Macédoine égéenne”
  • French: “Macedoine grecque”
  • French: “Macédoine grecque”
  • French: “Macédoine”
  • Galician: “Macedonia - Μακεδονία”
  • Galician: “Macedonia Exea”
  • Galician: “Macedonia grega”
  • Galician: “Macedonia-Μακεδονία”
  • Galician: “Macedonia, Grecia”
  • Georgian: “მაკედონია”
  • German: “Ägäis-Makedonien”
  • German: “Ägäis-Mazedonien”
  • German: “Makedonien”
  • Greek: “Ελληνική Μακεδονία”
  • Greek: “Μακεδονία”
  • Hebrew: “מקדוניה היוונית”
  • Ido: “Makedonia (Grekia)”
  • Ido: “Makedonia”
  • Indonesian: “Makedonia (Yunani)”
  • Indonesian: “Makedonia”
  • Irish: “An Mhacadóin Ghréagach”
  • Italian: “Macedonia greca”
  • Italian: “Macedonia”
  • Japanese: “エーゲ・マケドニア”
  • Japanese: “マケドニア”
  • Korean: “그리스령 마케도니아”
  • Korean: “마케도니아”
  • Kurdish: “Makedonya”
  • Latin: “Macedonia Graeca”
  • Latin: “Macedonia”
  • Latvian: “Maķedonija”
  • Latvian: “Maķedonijas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Egėjo Makedonija”
  • Lithuanian: “Graikijos Makedonija”
  • Lithuanian: “Makedonija”
  • Low German: “Makedonien”
  • Luxembourgish: “Griichesch Makedonien”
  • Luxembourgish: “Makedonien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Machedonia Gãrtseascã”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Machedonia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Makedonia Gãrtseascã”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Makedonia”
  • Macedonian: “Беломорска Македонија”
  • Macedonian: “Егејска Македонија”
  • Malagasy: “Makedônia (Gresy)”
  • Malagasy: “Makedônia”
  • Malay: “Makedonia, Yunani”
  • Mingrelian: “მაკედონია (საბერძნეთი)”
  • Mingrelian: “მაკედონია”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gresk Makedonia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Makedonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gresk Makedonia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makedonia i Hellas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makedonia”
  • Norwegian: “Makedonia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Macedònia grèca”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Macedònia grèga”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Macedònia”
  • Persian: “مقدونیه (یونان)”
  • Persian: “مقدونیه”
  • Polish: “Macedonia Egejska”
  • Polish: “Macedonia Grecka”
  • Polish: “Macedonia”
  • Pontic: “Μακεδονία”
  • Portuguese: “Macedônia (Grécia)”
  • Portuguese: “Macedónia grega”
  • Portuguese: “Macedónia”
  • Portuguese: “Macedônia”
  • Romanian: “Macedonia egeeană”
  • Romanian: “Macedonia grecească”
  • Romanian: “Macedonia”
  • Russian: “Беломорская Македония”
  • Russian: “Греческая Македония”
  • Russian: “Македония”
  • Russian: “Эгейская Македония”
  • Samogitian: “Makedonėjė”
  • Samogitian: “Makeduonėjė”
  • Serbian: “Egejska Makedonija”
  • Serbian: “Егејска Македонија”
  • Serbian: “Македонија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Egejska Makedonija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Makedonija”
  • Sicilian: “Macedonia”
  • Sicilian: “Macidonia”
  • Slovak: “Makedonia”
  • Slovak: “Makedónia”
  • Slovenian: “grška Makedonija”
  • Slovenian: “Makedonija”
  • Spanish: “Macedonia griega”
  • Spanish: “Macedonia”
  • Swedish: “Egeiska Makedonien”
  • Swedish: “Grekiska Makedonien”
  • Swedish: “Makedonien”
  • Swiss German: “Makedonie”
  • Thai: “มาซิโดเนีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Makedonien”
  • Turkish: “Ege Makedonyası”
  • Turkish: “Güney Makedonya”
  • Turkish: “Makedonya”
  • Turkish: “Merkez Makedonya”
  • Ukrainian: “Грецька Македонія”
  • Ukrainian: “Егейська Македонія”
  • Ukrainian: “Македонія”
  • Urdu: “مقدونیہ”
  • Venetian: “Macedònia”
  • Veps: “Grekanman Makedonii”
  • Veps: “Makedonii”
  • Vietnamese: “Macedonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Makedonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Makedonía”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Macedonia, Gresya”
  • Welsh: “Macedonia”
  • Western Armenian: “Մակետոնիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Յունաստանի Մակեդոնիոյ Շրջան”
  • Western Frisian: “Masedoanje (Grikelân)”
  • Western Frisian: “Masedoanje”
  • Western Panjabi: “مقدونیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “مقدونیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “马其顿 (希腊)”
  • Wu Chinese: “马其顿（希腊）”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬其頓尼亞”
  • “Machedonia Gãrtseascã”
  • “Makeduonėjė”

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