Piraeus
The Piraeus is the ancient port of Athens, and still functions as the chief exit point from the city by sea, for destinations among the Aegean Islands and elsewhere in the east Mediterranean.
- Type: City with 164,000 residents
- Description: city and port of Attica region, Greece
- Also known as: “atensko pristanišče”, “Athens havn”, “Athens port”, “Le Piree”, “Peiraeus”, “Peiraiá”, “Peiraias”, “Peiraiefs”, “Peiraieus”, “Peiraieús”, “Peiraievs”, “Piräás”, “Piräeus”, “Piraieus”, “Piraievs”, “Piraiévs”, “Pireás”, “Pireàs”, “Pirée”, “Piréefs”, “Pirėjus”, “Pireos”, “Porto Leone”, “Puerto de El Pireo”, “Λιμήν Αθηνών”, “Πόρτο Δράκο”, “Πόρτο Λεόνε”, “Πόρτο της Αθήνας”, “Пиреас”, “Пиреос”, “Пиреус”, “پیرییَس”, “พีเรอัส”, “พีเรเอฟส์”, “페이라이에우스”, “피라이우스”, “피레에프스”, “피레우스”, “ピラエウス”, “ピレアス”, “ピレエウス”, “ピレエフス”, “ピレオ”, “ペイライエウス”, and “ペイラエウス港”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Railway Museum Athens and Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
Railway Museum Athens
Museum
The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation in 1978.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nikaia and Keratsini.
Piraeus
- Categories: big city, port city, tourist destination, and locality
- Location: Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.9432° or 37° 56′ 35″ north
Longitude
23.6471° or 23° 38′ 49″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Established
November 11th, 1835
UN/LOCODE
GR PIR
Open location code
8G95WJVW+7R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Piraeus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Piraeus”
- Albanian: “Pireu”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πειραιεύς”
- Arabic: “بيرايوس”
- Aragonese: “Peiraiás”
- Aragonese: “Piraeus”
- Armenian: “Պիրեյոս”
- Asturian: “El Piréu”
- Azerbaijani: “Pirey”
- Balinese: “Piraeus”
- Bashkir: “Пирей”
- Basque: “Pireo”
- Belarusian: “Пірэй”
- Bengali: “পিরেয়াস”
- Bulgarian: “Пирея”
- Catalan: “el Pireu”
- Catalan: “El Pireu”
- Cebuano: “Piraeus”
- Chechen: “Пирей”
- Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯”
- Croatian: “Pirej”
- Czech: “Pireus”
- Danish: “Piræus”
- Dutch: “Piraeus”
- Esperanto: “Pireo”
- Estonian: “Pireus”
- Finnish: “Pireus”
- French: “Le Pirée”
- Galician: “O Pireo”
- Georgian: “პირეოსი”
- German: “Piräus”
- Greek: “Peiraiás”
- Greek: “Peiraiéfs”
- Greek: “Πειραιάς”
- Greek: “Πειραιεύς” (historical)
- Gujarati: “પિરાઈસ”
- Hebrew: “פיראוס”
- Hindi: “पिरेयुस”
- Hungarian: “Pireusz”
- Ido: “Pireus”
- Indonesian: “Piraeus”
- Irish: “Piréas”
- Italian: “Il Pireo”
- Italian: “Pireo”
- Japanese: “ピレウス”
- Javanese: “Piraeus”
- Kannada: “ಪರೆಯುಸ್”
- Kannada: “ಪಿರಾಯಸ್”
- Kashmiri: “پیرایوس”
- Kazakh: “Пирей”
- Korean: “피레아스”
- Korean: “피레오스”
- Latin: “Piraeus”
- Latvian: “Pireja”
- Limburgan: “Pireas”
- Lithuanian: “Pirėjas”
- Lombard: “El Piree”
- Luxembourgish: “Piräus”
- Macedonian: “Пиреј”
- Malay: “Piraeus”
- Maltese: “Piraeus”
- Marathi: “पीरेअस”
- Moksha: “Пирэй”
- Mongolian: “Пирей”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pireus”
- Norwegian: “Pireus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Pirèu”
- Ossetian: “Пирей”
- Persian: “پیرئوس”
- Persian: “پیره”
- Polish: “Pireus”
- Pontic: “Πειραιάς”
- Portuguese: “Pireu”
- Pushto: “پیرایوس”
- Romanian: “Pireu”
- Russian: “Пирей”
- Samogitian: “Piriejos”
- Scots: “Piraeus”
- Serbian: “Pirej”
- Serbian: “Пиреј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pirej”
- Silesian: “Pireus”
- Sinhala: “පයිරියස්”
- Slovak: “Pireus”
- Slovenian: “Pirej”
- Spanish: “El Pireo”
- Spanish: “Pireo”
- Swedish: “Pireus”
- Swiss German: “Piräus”
- Tamil: “பிரேயஸ்”
- Telugu: “పిర్యాయుస్”
- Thai: “ไพรีอัส”
- Tumbuka: “Piraeus”
- Turkish: “Pire”
- Ukrainian: “Пірей”
- Urdu: “پیرایوس”
- Uzbek: “Pirey (Gretsiya)”
- Uzbek: “Pirey”
- Venetian: “Il Pireo”
- Veps: “Pirei”
- Vietnamese: “Piraeus”
- Vlaams: “Piraeus”
- Volapük: “Pireas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Piraeus”
- Welsh: “Piraeus”
- Western Armenian: “Բիրէա”
- Western Armenian: “Փիրէա”
- Wu Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯”
- Yue Chinese: “比雷埃夫斯”
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