Poros
Poros is a green island situated in the Saronic Gulf, 59 km from the Piraeus harbour of Athens. It has an area of 33 km², a shoreline of 42 km, and a population of about 3,650.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,650 residents
- Description: Greek island of the Saronic Gulf
- Postal code: 18020
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Poros and Megali Magoula.
Archaeological Museum of Poros
Museum
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Archaeological Museum of Poros is a museum located on Koryzis Square in Poros, Greece. The museum was built in the 1960s on a plot of land donated by the Koryzis family.
Megali Magoula
Archaeological site
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Megali Magoula is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Galatas.
Galatas
Galatas is a town located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is the sister town of Poros.Poros
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Poros, Piraeus Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.4995° or 37° 29′ 58″ northLongitude
23.453° or 23° 27′ 11″ eastPopulation
3,650Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)Open location code
8G95FFX3+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 352995254OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
254865Wikidata ID
Q724394
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Poros” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Poros”
- Arabic: “بوروس، كيفالينيا”
- Arabic: “بوروس”
- Armenian: “Պորոս (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Պորոս”
- Belarusian: “Порас”
- Bulgarian: “Порос”
- Catalan: “Poros”
- Cebuano: “Póros”
- Chinese: “波罗斯岛”
- Chinese: “波羅斯島”
- Croatian: “Poros”
- Danish: “Poros”
- Dutch: “Poros”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوروس”
- Esperanto: “Poros”
- Estonian: “Pórose saar”
- Finnish: “Póros (kunta)”
- Finnish: “Póros”
- French: “Calaurie”
- French: “Poros”
- French: “Póros”
- Galician: “Poros”
- German: “Poros”
- Greek: “Póros”
- Greek: “Καλαύρια”
- Greek: “Πόρος”
- Hebrew: “פורוס”
- Hungarian: “Pórosz”
- Indonesian: “Poros”
- Italian: “Isola di Poros”
- Italian: “Poros”
- Japanese: “ポロス島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poros”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poros”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Póros”
- Norwegian: “Poros”
- Persian: “پوروس”
- Polish: “Poros”
- Portuguese: “Poros”
- Russian: “Калаврия”
- Russian: “Порос”
- Serbian: “Poros”
- Serbian: “Порос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poros”
- Slovenian: “Poros”
- Spanish: “Calauria”
- Spanish: “Poros”
- Swedish: “Poros”
- Turkish: “Poros”
- Ukrainian: “Калаврія”
- Ukrainian: “Порос”
- Urdu: “پوروس”
- Vietnamese: “Poros”
- Western Armenian: “Փորոս”
- Western Frisian: “Poros”
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