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Sign in to saveMegara (; , ) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King Pandion II, of whom Nisos was the ruler of Megara. Megara was also a trade port, its people using their ships and wealth as a way to gain leverage on armies of neighboring poleis. Megara specialized in the exportation of wool and other animal products including livestock
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Megara is a city in Greece that serves as the capital of the Megara Municipality. Located in the Attica region, the city has an official name of Μέγαρα and uses Greek as its official language. It is situated at an elevation of 4 meters above sea level and covers an area of 322.21 square kilometers. The local postal code is 191 00, and the dialing code is 2296.
The population of Megara is recorded as 25,467, while another source lists it as 23,456. The city is part of Greek mythology and is twinned with Aiud and Augusta. Its official website is megara.gr.
Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Open Meteo, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Place details
- Locality
- Μέγαρα
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Αττικής
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 23,456
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Megara
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Μέγαρα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Megareon.png
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Attica
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- West Attica
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 38033
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 330.1
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 30773
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 322.2
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 29122
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 4
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 191 00
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 22960
- Greek Dimos.website
- www.megara.gr
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Megara2.jpg
- Greek Dimos.mayor
- Panagiotis Margetis
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Part of
- Greek mythology
- Official name
- Μέγαρα
- Country
- Greece
- Official language
- Greek
- Population
- 13863
- Area
- 322.21
- Elevation
- 4
- Official website
- www.megara.gr
- Image
- Megara2.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2296
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- topic's main category
- Category:Megara
- Commons category
- Megara
- twinned administrative body
- Augusta
- postal code
- 191 00
- native label
- Μέγαρα
- P12749
- cat's eye
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