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About the Greek Island of Chios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Xios, Khios, Hios, Chios
ISLAND GROUP: Aegean Islands
POPULATION: 50,000 of which about 50% live in Chios Town.
GEOGRAPHY: 50km from top to bottom and about 28km from side to side.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS: Comparative lack of tourists, the Greek army have barracks here, motorbikes and cars abound in built up areas, donkey agriculture in the south, very friendly.
SPECIALITIES: Mastic, acquired from lentisk trees.
TELEPHONE PREFIX: 22710
MAIN TOWNS: Domestic Airport at Kambos (Kampos), close to Chios Town, other towns include, number of km from Chios Town shown after in ( ), Vrondatos (5), Langada (18), Marmaro (28), Nagos (31), Limnos (50), Limnia (49), Karfas (7), Ag Ermioni (9), Kataraktis (16), Emborious (33), Pirgi (26), Olympoi (33), Mesta (36), Limani meston (40)
PLACES OF INTEREST: Market Bazaar; remains of the Genoese Fort; Museum of Byzantine and Post Byzantine Art, housed in the Old Mosque; Archaeological Museum.