Corinth is located eighty kilometers west of Athens on the south side of the Isthmus, a narrow🏧 neck of land connecting the Peloponnese to mainland Greece and separating the Corinthian Gulf from the and Saronic Gulf and🏧 ultimately the Ionian and Aegean Seas.

Modern Corinth, three miles northeast of the site of🏧 ancient Corinth, was founded in 1858 after an earthquake leveled the latter. It is primarily a hub of communications between🏧 northern and southern Greece and is the primary point of export for local fruit, raisins, and tobacco.