Leros
Sign in to saveLeros (), also called Lero (from the Italian language), is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by a nine-hour ferry ride or by a 45-minute flight from Athens. It is about from Turkey. Leros is part of the Kalymnos regional unit. It has a population of 7,992 (2021).
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.elevation_min
- 0
- Greek Dimos.name
- Leros
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Λέρος
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Lerou.png
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- File:Leros, Greece - panoramio.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- View of Panteli village in Leros
- Greek Dimos.elevation_max
- 320
- Greek Dimos.periph
- South Aegean
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Kalymnos
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 7992
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 74.17
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 854 00
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 22470
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΚΧ, ΡΟ, ΡΚ
- Greek Dimos.website
- www.leros.gr
- Greek Dimos.seat
- Agia Marina
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Leros Municipality | Δήμος Λέρου
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Dodecanese
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Dodecanese
- Area
- 54.052
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Aegean Sea
- Location
- Aegean Sea
- Official website
- www.leros.gr
- Image
- Leros, Greece - panoramio.jpg
- Patron saint
- Gavrielia Papagianni
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- native label
- Λέρος
- Commons category
- Leros
- topic's main category
- Category:Leros
- postal code
- 854 00
- located in/on physical feature
- Dodecanese
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Leros (), also called Lero (from the Italian language), is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by a nine-hour ferry ride or by a 45-minute flight from Athens. It is about from Turkey. Leros is part of the Kalymnos regional unit. It has a population of 7,992 (2021).
==Geography== 300px|left|thumb|Leros in Dodecanese right|thumb|Front, left to right: Arkoi, [[Leipsoi, Leros. Back, left to right: Agathonisi, Farmakonisi and the Turkish coastline]]
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leros” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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