The Pagasetic Gulf is a rounded gulf

Headlands and bays

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 (max. depth 102 metres) in the prefecture of Magnesia

Magnesia Prefecture

Magnesia Prefecture was one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital was Volos. It was established in 1899 from the Larissa Prefecture. The prefecture was disbanded on 1 January 2011 by the Kallikratis programme, and split into the peripheral units of Magnesia and the Sporades.The toponym is...

 (east central Greece

Greece

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) that is formed by the Mount Pelion

Pelion

Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea...

 peninsula

Peninsula

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. It is connected with the Euboic Sea. The passage in to the Euboic Sea is narrow and is about 4 km.

Its main port is Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

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Places within the gulf

In clockwise order:

• Amaliapolis
  Amaliapolis
  Amaliapoli is a village at the western part of the Pagasetic Gulf, in the Magnesia Prefecture of Greece, also known as Nea Mitzela. It was the northernmost border village of the newly independent Greek state, and was named after Queen Amalia, the first queen of the modern Greek state, in the 1840s....
  
  , W, port
• Alos
  Alos, Greece
  Alos or Halos was an ancient Greek city, located 10 km south from present-day Almyros. The city is mentioned by Herodotus as one of the places where the Persian king Xerxes stayed in the summer of 480 during his attack on Greece; Herodotus digresses upon a human sacrifice ritual...
  
  , W, no port
• Almyros
  Almyros
  Almyros is a town and a municipality of the peripheral unit of Magnesia, periphery of Thessaly, Greece. It lies in the center of prosperous fertile plain known as 'Krokio Pedio', which is crossed by torrents, and produces wheat, tobacco, and other crops. Almyros is an important agricultural and...
  
  , W, no port
• North Anghialos, NW, port
• Pagasae
  Pagasae
  Pagasae was a coastal city in ancient Magnesia , now a suburb of the modern city of Volos. It flourished in the 400s and 300s BC. The only usable harbor in Thessaly was located on the Gulf of Pagasae, as it was known in antiquity...
  
  , NW, no port
• Demetrias
  Demetrias
  Demetrias was an ancient Greek city in Magnesia , near the modern city of Volos. It was founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes, one of the successors of Alexander the Great.-External links:*...
  
  , NW, no port
• Iolkos, NW, no port
• Volos
  Volos
  Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...
  
  , N, main port
• Agria
  Agria
  Agria is a town and a former municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Volos, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies on the Pelion peninsula about 7 km from Volos.- Name :...
  
  , NE, beach, port
• Neochori
  Neochori (Magnesia), Greece
  Neochori is a village situated on the peninsula of Pilion, and belongs to the prefecture of Magnesia, which itself forms the eastern part of Thessaly...
  
  , E, no port,
• Argalasti
  Argalasti
  Argalasti is a village and a former municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Pelion, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is built on a fertile plateau, 40 km southeast of Volos. It is an important...
  
  , E, no port, beaches (Lefokastro, Kalamos, Horto)
• Milina
  Milina
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  , SE, no port, beaches
• Trikeri
  Trikeri
  Trikeri is a town and a former community in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Pelion, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies at the westernmost point of the hook-like Pelion Peninsula on the Pagasetic Gulf. It also includes...
  
  , S, no port, beaches

The gulf took its name from the ancient city of Pagasae

Pagasae

Pagasae was a coastal city in ancient Magnesia , now a suburb of the modern city of Volos. It flourished in the 400s and 300s BC. The only usable harbor in Thessaly was located on the Gulf of Pagasae, as it was known in antiquity...

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