Sounion

Summary

Sounion is a cape^[1]. Sounion ranks in the top 5% of cape entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (111 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Sounion is located in Lavreotiki Municipality^[3].
• Sounion is in the country of Greece^[4].
• Sounion is on the body of water Petalioi Gulf^[5].
• Sounion is on the body of water Saronic Gulf^[6].
• Sounion's image is recorded as Attica 06-13 Sounion 18 Cape Sounion stitch.jpg^[7].
• Sounion's instance of is recorded as cape^[8].
• Sounion's instance of is recorded as headland^[9].
• Sounion's instance of is recorded as archaeological site^[10].
• Sounion's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 234575484^[11].
• Sounion's Commons category is recorded as Sounion^[12].
• Sounion's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 37.64897, 'lon': 24.0301}^[13].
• Sounion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03vx1_^[14].
• Sounion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sounion^[15].
• Sounion's page banner is recorded as Cape Sounion AC (cropped).JPG^[16].
• Sounion's described at URL is recorded as http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/gh351.jsp?obj_id=2390^[17].
• Sounion's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[18].
• Sounion's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[19].
• Sounion's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Dreizehnter Band^[20].
• Sounion's heritage designation is recorded as archaeological site in Greece^[21].
• Sounion's GeoNames ID is recorded as 260477^[22].
• Sounion's GeoNames ID is recorded as 253427^[23].
• Sounion's Pleiades ID is recorded as 580108^[24].
• Sounion's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 7011057^[25].
• Sounion's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'el', 'text': 'Aκρωτήριο Σούνιο'}^[26].
• Sounion's Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID is recorded as 22757^[27].

Body

Geography

Sounion is in the country of Greece^[4]. Sounion is located in Lavreotiki Municipality^[3]. Adjacent water bodies include Petalioi Gulf^[5], a bay^[28], in Greece^[29] and Saronic Gulf^[6], a gulf^[30], in Greece^[31].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include cape^[8], headland^[9], and archaeological site^[10]. Sounion's heritage designation is recorded as archaeological site in Greece^[21].

Why It Matters

Sounion ranks in the top 5% of cape entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (111 views/month).^[2] Sounion has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] Sounion is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]