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Kos

city on the homonymous island in Aegean Sea, Greece
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Summary

Kos is a city[1]. Kos draws 685 Wikipedia views per month (city category, ranking #748 of 5,534).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kos Municipality[3], Commune of Kos[4]
  • Country: Greece[5]
  • Postal code: 853 xx[6]
  • Commons category: Kos (city)[7]
  • Patron saint: Saint Nicholas[8]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Kos[9]
  • Official website: http://www.kos.gr[10]
  • Population: 21,430[11], 17,894[12], 14,799[13], 19,432[14], 8863[15]
  • Capital of: Kos Municipality[16]
  • Official name: Κως[17]
  • Category for people born here: Q134995150[18]
  • Category for people who died here: Q134994944[19]
  • Native label: Κως[20]
  • Different from: Kos[21]
  • Elevation above sea level: 10 m[22]
  • Area: 67.2 km²[23]

Why It Matters

Kos has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Kos is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

city Greece Kos Saint Nicholas

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Greek census 1951. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_kos-q568212_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Kos}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/kos-q568212}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-13}}
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