Samos
Samos is an island in the North Aegean Sea and one of the East Aegean Islands. Its capital is the town of Samos, formerly known as Vathi. The Samians still call their capital Vathi instead of Samos.
- Type: Locality with 34,000 residents
- Description: Greek island in Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Dimos Samos”, “Ilha de samos”, “illa de Samos”, “Insulele Samos”, “Isola di Samo”, “Otok Samos”, “Prefectura de Samos”, “Pulau Samos”, “Samé”, “Samien”, “Samose saar”, “Unidad periferica de Samos”, “Unidad periférica de Samos”, “Σάμoς”, “Σάμιοι”, “Острво Самос”, “Сам”, “סמוס”, and “사모스”
Samos
- Categories: island and polis
- Location: Samos Prefecture, North Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.7335° or 37° 44′ 1″ north
Longitude
26.811° or 26° 48′ 40″ east
Population
34,000
Elevation
507 metres (1,663 feet)
Open location code
8G98PRM6+99
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Samos” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Samos”
- Albanian: “Samosi”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σάμος”
- Arabic: “ساموس”
- Armenian: “Սամոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Samos”
- Balinese: “Samos”
- Basque: “Samos uhartea”
- Basque: “Samos”
- Belarusian: “Самас”
- Breton: “Samos”
- Bulgarian: “Самос”
- Catalan: “Samos”
- Cebuano: “Nísos Sámos”
- Central Kurdish: “ساموس”
- Chinese: “萨摩斯岛”
- Chinese: “薩摩斯島”
- Croatian: “Sam”
- Croatian: “Samos”
- Czech: “Samos”
- Danish: “Samos”
- Dimli (individual language): “Samos”
- Dutch: “Samos”
- Esperanto: “Samoso”
- Estonian: “Sámose saar”
- Faroese: “Samos”
- Finnish: “Sámos”
- French: “Samos”
- French: “Sámos”
- Galician: “Illa de Samos”
- Galician: “Samos”
- Georgian: “სამოსი”
- German: “Samos”
- Greek: “Σάμος”
- Greek: “Σάμου”
- Hebrew: “סאמוס”
- Hindi: “समोस”
- Hungarian: “Számosz”
- Icelandic: “Samos”
- Indonesian: “Samos”
- Irish: “Samas”
- Italian: “Samo”
- Japanese: “サモス島”
- Korean: “사모스섬”
- Kurdish: “Samos”
- Latin: “Samos”
- Latin: “Samus”
- Latvian: “Sama”
- Ligurian: “Samo”
- Lithuanian: “Samas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Samos”
- Luxembourgish: “Samos”
- Macedonian: “Самос”
- Malagasy: “Samos”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sák-mò̤”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sámos”
- Norwegian: “Samos”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Samos”
- Persian: “ساموس”
- Polish: “Samos”
- Portuguese: “Samos”
- Romanian: “Samos”
- Russian: “Самос”
- Scots: “Samos”
- Serbian: “Samos”
- Serbian: “Самос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Samos”
- Sicilian: “Samu”
- Silesian: “Samos”
- Slovak: “Samos”
- Slovenian: “Samos”
- Spanish: “Samos”
- Swahili: “Samos”
- Swedish: “Samos”
- Tamil: “சாமோஸ்”
- Thai: “ซาโมส”
- Turkish: “Sisam”
- Ukrainian: “Самос”
- Upper Sorbian: “Samos”
- Urdu: “ساموس”
- Vietnamese: “Samos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Samos”
- Welsh: “Samos”
- Western Armenian: “Սամոս”
- Wu Chinese: “萨摩斯岛”
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