Sounio

Sounio is a national park in , the historic region of city-state. It is a popular day trip from Athens because of its splendid Temple of Poseidon.
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  • Locality with about 130 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (70 feet)
  • Description: cape and archaeological site in Lavreotiki municipality, Attica, Greece
  • Also known as
    “Cape Sounion”
    “Kato Sounion”
    “Soúnion”
    “Sounion,archaeological site”
    “Sunium”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temple of Poseidon.
Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an ancient Greek temple…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Legrena and Poseidonia.
is a coastal village in in southern Greece on the coast of the peninsula.
Kato is a settlement in Southeastern … is situated 4½ km northeast of Sounio.

Sounio

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Latitude
37.6501° or 37° 39′ 0″ north
Longitude
24.0263° or 24° 1′ 35″ east
Open location code
8G96M22G+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4594305300
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
260477
Wiki­data ID
Q1136637

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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Western Armenian—“Sounio” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Άκρον Σούνιον”
  • Arabic: “سونيون”
  • Basque: “Sounion”
  • Belarusian: “Мыс Суніян”
  • Belarusian: “Суніян”
  • Bulgarian: “Сунион”
  • Catalan: “Cap Súnion”
  • Catalan: “Sounion”
  • Catalan: “Súnion”
  • Cebuano: “Ákra Soúnio”
  • Cebuano: “Káto Soúnion”
  • Chinese: “舒尼恩”
  • Chinese: “舒尼恩岬”
  • Chinese: “舒尼恩岬的波塞冬神廟”
  • Chinese: “苏尼恩岬”
  • Chinese: “蘇尼恩岬”
  • Chinese: “蘇尼翁”
  • Chinese: “蘇尼翁角”
  • Czech: “Sunion”
  • Dutch: “Kaap Soenion”
  • Dutch: “Kaap Sounion”
  • Dutch: “Sounion”
  • Finnish: “Soúnio”
  • French: “Cap Sounion”
  • French: “Sounion”
  • German: “Kap Sounion”
  • German: “Kap Sunion”
  • German: “Sounio”
  • German: “Sounion”
  • German: “Sunion”
  • Greek: “Ακρωτήριο Σούνιο”
  • Greek: “Κάτω Σούνιο”
  • Greek: “Κάτω Σούνιον”
  • Greek: “Σούνιο, αρχαιολογικός χώρος”
  • Greek: “Σούνιο”
  • Greek: “Σούνιον”
  • Hebrew: “כף סוניו”
  • Hebrew: “כף סוניון”
  • Hungarian: “Sounion”
  • Italian: “Capo Sounion”
  • Italian: “Capo Sunio”
  • Japanese: “スーニョ岬”
  • Japanese: “スニオン”
  • Japanese: “スニオン岬”
  • Latin: “Sunium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sunion”
  • Norwegian: “Sunion”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Sounio”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Sunionu”
  • Polish: “Sounio”
  • Polish: “Sounion”
  • Polish: “Sunio”
  • Polish: “Sunion”
  • Polish: “Sunium”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo súnion”
  • Portuguese: “Sounion”
  • Portuguese: “Sunião”
  • Portuguese: “Súnion”
  • Romanian: “Sounio”
  • Romanian: “Sounion”
  • Russian: “Мыс Сунион”
  • Russian: “Суний”
  • Russian: “Сунион”
  • Serbian: “Сунион”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sounion”
  • Slovenian: “Sounion”
  • Spanish: “Cabo Sunión”
  • Spanish: “Sunio”
  • Spanish: “Sunión”
  • Spanish: “Sunium”
  • Swedish: “Ákra Soúnio”
  • Swedish: “Kap Sunion”
  • Swedish: “Sunion”
  • Swedish: “Sunium”
  • Turkish: “Sunion”
  • Turkish: “Sütun Burnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Суній”
  • Ukrainian: “Суніо”
  • Ukrainian: “Суніон”
  • Vietnamese: “Sounion”
  • Welsh: “Penrhyn Sounion”
  • Welsh: “Sounion”
  • Western Armenian: “Սունիօ”

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