Patras

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Patras

Total population

300,000

Air quality index

51Moderate

Coordinates38.25°, 21.74°

Demographic figures from ELSTAT. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Patras is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, 215 km (134 mi) west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaikon, overlooking the Gulf of Patras.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Notable people from here

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Giorgos Ntotsikas

Greek water polo player

Dimitris Daskalopoulos

Greek writer (1939–2026)

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Dimítrios Antonópoulos

Greek politician

Dimitrios Galanopoulos

Greek lawyer

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Dimitrios Lontos

Greek journalist, politician and lawyer

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Dimitrios Sotiriadis

Greek politician

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Dion. I. Oikonomopoulos

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Dionysios Fragkopoulos

Greek banker and raisin merchant

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Epaminondas Petralias

Greek sportsperson

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Ilias Kalamogdartis

Greek writer and poet (1817-1848)

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Ilias Kyriakopoulos

Greek university professor and politician

Hercules Anastasios Mitsopoulos

He was the father of the Natural Sciences in Greece. He founded the Zoological Museum of the University of Athens.

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Theodoros Anninos

Greek politician

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Theodoros Zafeiropoulos

Greek politician

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Ioannis Roufos

Greek politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Western Greece

• Isoma
  10.3 mi away
• Gouria
  30.1 mi away · pop. 1,071
• Fridafors
  1296.1 mi away · pop. 186
• Konga
  1297 mi away
• Bastaremåla
  1297.9 mi away
• Rävemåla
  1299.4 mi away
• Ryd
  1299.5 mi away
• Urshult
  1302.7 mi away
• Skruv
  1306.4 mi away · pop. 490
• Häradsbäck
  1306.7 mi away · pop. 173
• Linneryd
  1307.8 mi away
• Väckelsång
  1308.7 mi away

Browse all places in Western Greece →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Gallery

Geotagged photos within ~6 miles of Patras, from Wikimedia Commons contributors.

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