Karpathos, South Aegean, Greece


🇬🇷 Karpathos (Κάρπαθος), also Carpathos, is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the south-eastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality of Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos regional unit. Because of its remote location, Karpathos has preserved many peculiarities of dress, customs and dialect, the last resembling those of Crete and Cyprus. The island has also been called Carpathus in Latin and Scarpanto in Italian.

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Karpathos has a population of over 6,226 people. Karpathos also forms the centre of the wider Karpathos Regional unit which has a population of over 7,640 people.

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