Crete
The Decentralized Administration of Crete is one of the seven decentralized administrations of Greece, solely consisting of the region of Crete. Its seat is in Heraklion.
- State with about 624,000 residents
- Description: administrative region of Greece
- Also known as“Crete Periphery”“Crete Region”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Ida and Moni Asomaton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fourfouras and Kalogeros.
Crete
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Latitude
35.2454° or 35° 14′ 43″ north
Longitude
24.739° or 24° 44′ 21″ east
Open location code
8G766PWQ+5J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Crete” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ክሪት”
- Arabic: “إقريطش”
- Arabic: “إقليم كريت”
- Arabic: “منطقة إقريطش”
- Aragonese: “Periferia de Creta”
- Armenian: “Կրետե”
- Armenian: “Կրետեի շրջան”
- Asturian: “Periferia de Creta”
- Azerbaijani: “Kipr”
- Azerbaijani: “Krit”
- Belarusian: “Акруга Крыт”
- Belarusian: “Крыт”
- Bengali: “ক্রিট”
- Breton: “Rannvro Kreta”
- Catalan: “Regió de Creta”
- Cebuano: “Crete”
- Chinese: “克里特大区”
- Chinese: “克里特大區”
- Chinese: “克里特省”
- Croatian: “Periferija Kreta”
- Czech: “Kréta”
- Dutch: “Kreta”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Kreto”
- Estonian: “Kreeta piirkond”
- Finnish: “Kreeta”
- French: “Crète (périphérie)”
- French: “Crète”
- Galician: “rexión de Creta”
- German: “Kreta (griechische Region)”
- German: “Kreta”
- Greek: “Κρήτη”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Κρήτης”
- Hausa: “Krit”
- Ido: “Regiono Kriti”
- Interlingua: “Region Creta”
- Irish: “an Chréit”
- Italian: “Creta”
- Japanese: “クレタ”
- Javanese: “Kreta”
- Kazakh: “Крит”
- Kirghiz: “Крит”
- Korean: “크레타주”
- Korean: “크리티 주”
- Malay: “Kreta”
- Maltese: “Reġjun ta‘ Kreta”
- Northern Frisian: “Kreeta (Regiuun)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kreta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kreta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Periferien Kreta”
- Oromo: “Kiritii”
- Panjabi: “ਕਰੀਟ”
- Persian: “کریت”
- Polish: “Region Kreta”
- Portuguese: “Creta”
- Pushto: “کریت”
- Romanian: “Creta”
- Russian: “Крит”
- Serbian: “Periferija Krit”
- Serbian: “Периферија Крит”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Periferija Kreta”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Periferija Krit”
- Slovenian: “Kreta”
- Somali: “Kirita”
- Spanish: “Creta”
- Spanish: “Periféreia Krítis”
- Spanish: “Periferia de Creta”
- Spanish: “Periferia de Kriti”
- Spanish: “Región de Creta”
- Spanish: “Περιφέρεια Κρήτης”
- Swahili: “Krita”
- Swedish: “Kreta”
- Tajik: “Крит”
- Tatar: “Крит төбәге”
- Tatar: “Крит”
- Ukrainian: “Крит”
- Uzbek: “Krit”
- Western Armenian: “Կրետէի շրջան”
- Yue Chinese: “克里特大區”
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