Kournas
Kournas is a mountainous village and a community of the Municipality of Apokoronas, Chania, on the Greek island of Crete. It has a population of 1,038 citizens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Aeleftherios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 504 residents
- Description: village in Greece
- Also known as: “Kournas, Chania”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Agios Georgios and Lake Kournas.
Agios Georgios
Place of worship
Photo: S.tsourdos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Agios Georgios is a place of worship.
Lake Kournas
Lake
Photo: Шнапс, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Kournas is a lake on the island of Crete, Greece, near the village of Kournas. It is in the Apokoronas municipality of Chania regional unit close to the border with Rethymno regional unit, 47 km from the town of Chania. Lake Kournas is situated 3 km northwest of Kournas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kastellos and Archontiki.
Archontiki
Hamlet
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Archontiki is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km east of Kournas.
Kournas
- Category: locality
- Location: Apokoronas, Chania, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.31325° or 35° 18′ 48″ northLongitude
24.29632° or 24° 17′ 47″ eastPopulation
504Elevation
179 metres (587 feet)Open location code
8G76877W+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 287369511OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
259011Wikidata ID
Q3215464
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Kournas” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kournás”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كورناس تشانيا”
- Finnish: “Kournás”
- French: “Kournás”
- French: “Lac de Kourna”
- French: “Lac de Kournas”
- German: “Kournas”
- Greek: “Κουρνά Χανίων”
- Greek: “Κουρνάς Χανίων”
- Greek: “Κουρνάς”
- Turkish: “Kournas”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kournas”. Photo: Aeleftherios, CC BY-SA 3.0.