Symi

Symi, also transliterated as Syme or Simi, is a island and municipality. It is mountainous and has the harbour town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller population centres, beaches and areas of significance in history and mythology.
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Latitude
36.6133° or 36° 36′ 48″ north
Longitude
27.838° or 27° 50′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
GR SYM
Open location code
8G89JR7Q+86
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Symi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيمي”
  • Armenian: “Սիմի”
  • Armenian: “Սիոմի”
  • Bulgarian: “Сими”
  • Catalan: “Sime”
  • Catalan: “Simi”
  • Cebuano: “Nísos Sými”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیمی”
  • Chinese: “錫米島”
  • Czech: “Symi”
  • Danish: “Simi”
  • Dutch: “Simi”
  • Dutch: “Symi”
  • Esperanto: “Simi”
  • Faroese: “Symi”
  • Finnish: “Sými”
  • French: “Sými”
  • Galician: “Symi - Σύμη”
  • Galician: “Symi”
  • German: “Symi”
  • Greek: “Σύμη”
  • Hebrew: “סימי”
  • Hungarian: “Szími”
  • Italian: “Simi”
  • Japanese: “シミ”
  • Japanese: “シミ島 (ドデカネス諸島)”
  • Japanese: “シミ島”
  • Japanese: “シュミ島”
  • Korean: “시미섬”
  • Latin: “Syme”
  • Latvian: “Sime”
  • Macedonian: “Сими”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Symi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sými”
  • Norwegian: “Symi”
  • Persian: “سیمی”
  • Polish: “Simi”
  • Portuguese: “Simi”
  • Russian: “Сими”
  • Serbian: “Сими”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Simi”
  • Slovak: “Symi”
  • Spanish: “Symi”
  • Swedish: “Nísos Sými”
  • Swedish: “Sými”
  • Turkish: “Sömbeki”
  • Ukrainian: “Симі”
  • Vietnamese: “Symi”
  • Western Armenian: “Սիմի”

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