The Paximadia
Paximadia are two small uninhabited islands in the gulf of Mesara located approximately 12 km south of Agia Galini in Rethymno regional unit. They are in the Libyan Sea next to the southern coast of Crete.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 250 metres (830 feet)
- Description: pair of islands off Crete, Greece
- Also known as“Litoai Nísoi”“Nisides Paximadia”“Nisídhes Paximádhia”“Paximadia”
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
35.0058° or 35° 0′ 21″ north
Longitude
24.59046° or 24° 35′ 26″ east
Open location code
8G762H4R+85
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“The Paximadia” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պաքսիմադիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Paksimadiya adası”
- Catalan: “Paximadia”
- Cebuano: “Nisídes Paximádia”
- Dutch: “Paximadia”
- Finnish: “Paximádia”
- French: “Paximádia”
- Galician: “Paximadia”
- German: “Paximadia-Inseln”
- Greek: “Nisídes Paximádia”
- Greek: “Νησίδες Παξιμάδια”
- Greek: “Παξιμάδια”
- Italian: “Paximadia”
- Macedonian: “Паксимадија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paximadia”
- Norwegian: “Paximadia”
- Russian: “Паксимадия”
- Serbian: “Paksimadja”
- Serbian: “Паксимадја”
- Spanish: “Paximadia”
- Swedish: “Nisídes Paximádia”
- Turkish: “Paksimadia”
- Ukrainian: “Паксимадья”
- Urdu: “پاکسیمادیا”
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