Gavdos
Gavdos is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much larger neighbour, Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. It forms a community with surrounding islets and was part of the former Selino Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 81 residents
- Description: island in Greece
- Also known as: “Dimos Gavdos” and “Gavdos island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Korfos and Pyrgos Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vatsiana.
Vatsiana
Hamlet
Vatsiana, on the island of Gavdos in the Chania regional unit of Crete in Greece, is the most southernly settlement in Europe. As of 2021, the village's permanent population was 15; though, in the summer, the number of people on the island increases to a few thousand due to tourism.
Gavdos
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Gavdos” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Gavdhos”
- Albanian: “Gavdos”
- Arabic: “جافدوس”
- Arabic: “غافدوس”
- Armenian: “Գավդոս”
- Asturian: “Gavdos”
- Azerbaijani: “Qavdos adası”
- Bulgarian: “Гавдос”
- Catalan: “Gavdos”
- Cebuano: “Nisí Gávdos”
- Chinese: “加夫佐斯岛”
- Chinese: “加夫佐斯島”
- Chinese: “加夫多斯岛”
- Czech: “Gavdos”
- Danish: “Gavdos”
- Dutch: “Gavdos”
- Dutch: “Liviko pelagos”
- Esperanto: “Gavdos”
- Estonian: “Gavdos”
- Estonian: “Gávdos”
- Finnish: “Gavdos”
- Finnish: “Gávdos”
- French: “Gávdos”
- Galician: “Gavdos - Γαύδος”
- Galician: “Gavdos”
- German: “Gavdos”
- Greek: “Γαύδος”
- Greek: “Γαύδου”
- Greek: “Νήσος Γαύδος”
- Hebrew: “גאבדוס”
- Hindi: “गावडोस”
- Hungarian: “Gávdosz”
- Indonesian: “Gavdos”
- Italian: “Gavdos”
- Italian: “Gàvdos”
- Italian: “Ghàvdos”
- Italian: “Gozzo”
- Japanese: “カヴドス島”
- Japanese: “ガヴドス島”
- Korean: “가브도스섬”
- Latvian: “Gaudosa”
- Limburgan: “Gavdos”
- Macedonian: “Гавдос”
- Malay: “Gavdos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gavdos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gavdos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gávdos”
- Norwegian: “Gavdos”
- Persian: “گاودوس”
- Polish: “Gaudos”
- Polish: “Gavdos”
- Polish: “Gawdos”
- Polish: “Kauda”
- Polish: “Klauda”
- Portuguese: “Gavdhos”
- Portuguese: “Gavdos”
- Romanian: “Gavdos”
- Russian: “Гавдос”
- Serbian: “Gavdos”
- Serbian: “Гавдос”
- Slovak: “Gavdos”
- Spanish: “Gaudos”
- Spanish: “Gavdos”
- Spanish: “Gávdos”
- Spanish: “Γαύδος”
- Swedish: “Gavdos”
- Turkish: “Gavda”
- Ukrainian: “Гавдос”
- Urdu: “گاودوس”
- Vietnamese: “Gavdos”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nisí Gávdos and Gavdos Heliport.
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