Aigio is a town and former municipality in the Achaea regional unit of West Greece, on the Peloponnese peninsula, and the second largest city in Achaea after Patras. It stands as a port on the Gulf of Corinth and takes its name from the ancient city of Aegium, whose settlement dates to Homeric times and which became part of the first Achaean League around 800 BC. It now serves as the seat of the Aigialeia municipality and had a population of about 25,795 in its municipal unit as of the 2021 census, across roughly 151 square kilometers.
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1. Aigio (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 19,857 (2021)
2. Aigio (Wikipedia)
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Aigio (Greek: Αίγιο, romanized: Aígio, pronounced [ˈeʝio]; Latin: Aegium), is a town and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, on the Peloponnese.
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- In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.25, 22.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.25, 22.25
38.25 22.25 Csa
4. GeoNames: Aígio - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 265500, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 265500, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
38.24861 22.08194 P PPLA3 GR ESYE23 38 9130 20422 70 Europe/Athens
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