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Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”

Heraklion International Airport "Nikos Kazantzakis" is the primary airport on the of , , and the country's second busiest airport after .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: international airport serving Heraklion, Greece
  • Also known as: “HER”, “Heraklion International Airport ‘Nikos Kazantzakis’”, “Heraklion International Airport "Nikos Kazantzakis"”, “Heraklion International Airport Nikos Kazantzakis”, “LGIR”, “Nikos Kazantzakis Airport”, and “Ηρακλείου -Iraklio”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Heraklion Archaeological Museum and Heraklion Indoor Sports Arena.

Museum
Photo: Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum located in on . It is one of the largest museums in Greece, and the best in the world for Minoan art, as it contains by far the most important and complete collection of artefacts of the Minoan civilization of .

Sports venue
Photo: Georgekok-Greece, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, or simply, Heraklion Arena, is a multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in the city of , on the island of , in Greece.

Church
Photo: Jebulon, CC0.
The Cathedral of Saint Titus is a Greek Orthodox church in the city of , on the island of , . dedicated to Saint Titus. The current church was built in 1869 as a , called the Yeni Cami, after the previous building was destroyed by the earthquake of 1856.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nea Alikarnassos and Prassas.

Town
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town and a former municipality in the , , . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit.

Village
Prassa is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement on .

Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Iraklio is the major city and capital of , the largest of the Greek islands. Its archaeological museum holds the remains of the 4000-year-old Minoan civilization, which centred on the nearby palace of Knossos, with its Minotaur legend.

Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”

Latitude
35.33706° or 35° 20′ 13″ north
Longitude
25.17597° or 25° 10′ 34″ east
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
IATA airport code
HER
ICAO airport code
LGIR
Open location code
8G7785PG+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 41462113
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6299488
Wiki­data ID
Q1142384
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار كاندية الدولي”
  • Armenian: “Հերակլիոնի միջազգային օդանավակայան”
  • Cebuano: “Heraklion International Airport”
  • Chinese: “伊拉克利翁国际机场”
  • Chinese: “伊拉克利翁尼科斯·卡贊察基斯國際機場”
  • Chinese: “伊拉克利翁尼科斯·卡赞察基斯国际机场”
  • Czech: “Letiště Iraklio”
  • Czech: “Letiště Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • Czech: “Mezinárodní letiště Nikose Kazantzakise Heráklion”
  • Dutch: “Heraklion International Airport”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Heraklion”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Iraklion”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار كانديه الدولى”
  • Finnish: “Iraklionin kansainvälinen lentoasema”
  • French: “aérodrome de Grèce”
  • French: “Aeroport international d’Heraklion Nikos-Kazantzakis”
  • French: “aéroport international d’Héraklion Níkos-Kazantzákis”
  • French: “Aéroport international d’Héraklion Níkos-Kazantzákis”
  • French: “Aéroport Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • French: “Aeroport Nikos-Kazantzakis”
  • French: “Aéroport Nikos-Kazantzakis”
  • French: “HER”
  • French: “LGIR”
  • French: “ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ Α. ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟΥ ‘ΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΑΖΑΝΤΖΑΚΗΣ”
  • Galician: “Aeroporto de Heraclión”
  • Galician: “Aeroporto de Heraklion”
  • German: “Flughafen Heraklion”
  • German: “Flughafen Iraklio”
  • German: “Flughafen Iraklion”
  • German: “Flughafen Iráklion”
  • German: “HER”
  • German: “Heraklion International Airport”
  • German: “Internationaler Flughafen Iraklio Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • German: “LGIR”
  • German: “Nikos Kazantzakis International Airport”
  • Greek: “Διεθνές Αεροδρόμιο Ηρακλείου ‘Νίκος Καζαντζάκης’”
  • Greek: “Διεθνές Αεροδρόμιο Ηρακλείου «Νίκος Καζαντζάκης»”
  • Greek: “Διεθνές αεροδρόμιο Ν. Καζαντζάκης”
  • Greek: “Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ηρακλείου ‘Νίκος Καζαντζάκης’”
  • Greek: “Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ηρακλείου «Νίκος Καζαντζάκης»”
  • Greek: “Κρατικός αερολιμένας Ηρακλείου Νίκος Καζαντζάκης”
  • Greek: “Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ηρακλείου Νίκος Καζαντζάκης”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבין-לאומי הרקליון”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי הרקליון”
  • Hungarian: “Heraklion nemzetközi repülőtér”
  • Hungarian: “Iráklioni nemzetközi repülőtér”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Heraklion”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional Heraklion”
  • Indonesian: “HER”
  • Indonesian: “LGIR”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Candia-Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Heraklion”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Internazionale di Heraklion”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Nikos Kazantakis”
  • Japanese: “イラクリオン”
  • Japanese: “イラクリオン国際空港”
  • Japanese: “クレタ島”
  • Japanese: “ヘラクリオン国際空港”
  • Korean: “이라클리온 국제공항”
  • Macedonian: “Меѓународен аеродром Ираклион „Никос Казанѕакис“”
  • Macedonian: “Меѓународен аеродром Ираклион”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Heraklion internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iráklio internasjonale lufthamn, Níkos Kazantzákis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iráklio internasjonale lufthamn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iráklio lufthamn”
  • Norwegian: “Heraklion internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین‌المللی هراکلین”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Heraklion”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Iraklion”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Heraclião”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional de Heraclião”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Heraklion”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Heraklion”
  • Russian: “Аэропорт Ираклиона «Никос Казандзакис»”
  • Russian: “Ираклион”
  • Russian: “Международный аэропорт Ираклиона «Н.Казандзакис»”
  • Russian: “Международный аэропорт Ираклиона”
  • Russian: “Никос Казандзакис”
  • Serbian: “Аеродром Ираклион”
  • Slovak: “Letisko Nikosa Kazantzakisa Iraklio”
  • Slovak: “Medzinárodné letisko Nikosa Kazantzakisa Iraklio”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Heraclion”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Heraclión”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Heraklion”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Heraclión Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Heraclion”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Heraclión”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Heraklion”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional Heraklion”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Nikos Kazantzakis”
  • Swedish: “Heraklion flygplats”
  • Swedish: “Heraklions internationella flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи бин‌алмилалӣ ҳроклин”
  • Turkish: “Kandiye Uluslararası Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Іракліон”
  • Ukrainian: “Міжнародний аеропорт «Нікос Казандзакіс»”
  • Ukrainian: “Міжнародний аеропорт «Нікоса Казандзакіса»”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікос Казандзакіс”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Heraklion, ‘Nikos Kazantzakis’”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Heraklion”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Heraklion”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊拉克利翁尼科斯·卡赞察基斯国际机场”
  • “HER”
  • “LGIR”

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