Ilioupoli, Central Athens, Attica, Greece

Geography | Landmarks | Sports

🇬🇷 Ilioupoli is a suburban municipality in the southern part of the Athens. Its name is the modern form of the ancient name of Heliopolis in Egypt. Development of Ilioupoli started around 1924, when Greek refugees from Asia Minor settled there.

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Geography Ilioupoli is 6 km (4 mi) south-east of Athens city centre. The municipality has an area of 12.724 km². It lies at the western foot of the forested Hymettus mountain, which covers the eastern half of the municipality. Its built-up area is continuous with those of neighbouring suburbs Ymittos, Agios Dimitrios, Alimos and Argyroupoli. The main thoroughfares are Vouliagmenis Avenue, which connects Ilioupoli with central Athens, and Venizelou Avenue, which connects with Motorway 64. Ilioupoli station is served by Line 2 of the Athens Metro. Ilioupoli is also linked by bus to downtown Athens (OASA 237 line), to Glyfada (OASA 140 line) and Piraeus (OASA 218 line).

Ilioupoli is subdivided into 11 quarters: Agia Marina, Agia Mavra, Agia Paraskevi, Agios Konstantinos-Kanaria, Ano Ilioupoli, Astynomika-Panorama, Kato Ilioupoli, Kentro, Nisaki, Typografika and Chalikaki. Ilioupoli has an uncommon street plan, characterised by 5 sets of concentric circular or oval streets.

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Landmarks • Anapsiktirio "Demetrios Kintis" • Plateia Iroon (Iroon Square) • Koimisi tis Theotokou Church • Kentriki Plateia (Central Square) • The Stouggaris Building (Sophia the fox, big one) • Plateia Kanaria (Kanaria Square) • Plateia Flemingk (Fleming Square).

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Sports Ilioupoli is the seat of the clubs Charavgiakos F.C., club founded in 1949 and Ilioupoli F.C., club founded in 1953.

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Ilioupoli has a population of over 78,153 people. Ilioupoli also forms one of the centres of the wider Central Athens District which has a population of over 1,029,520 people. It is also a part of the larger Athens area.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Ilioupoli has links with:

🇷🇴 Iași, Romania 🇨🇾 Larnaca, Cyprus 🇷🇸 Novi Sad, Serbia
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Antipodal to Ilioupoli is: -156.25,-37.933

Locations Near: Ilioupoli 23.75,37.9333

🇬🇷 Agios Dimitrios 23.733,37.933 d: 1.5  

🇬🇷 Moschato-Tavros 23.75,37.9 d: 3.7  

🇬🇷 Elliniko-Argyroupoli 23.75,37.9 d: 3.7  

🇬🇷 Alimos 23.717,37.917 d: 3.5  

🇬🇷 Nea Smyrni 23.717,37.95 d: 3.5  

🇬🇷 Zografou 23.767,37.967 d: 4  

🇬🇷 Palaio Faliro 23.7,37.933 d: 4.4  

🇬🇷 Kallithea 23.696,37.951 d: 5.2  

🇬🇷 Athens 23.717,37.983 d: 6.3  

🇬🇷 Glyfada 23.75,37.867 d: 7.4  

Antipodal to: Ilioupoli -156.25,-37.933

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🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13476.6  

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