Sfakia
Sfakiá is a mountainous area in the southwestern part of the island of Crete, in the Chania regional unit. It is considered to be one of the few places in Greece that have never been fully occupied by foreign powers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 2,420 residents
- Description: municipality in Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Sfakia Municipality”
- Neighbors: Platanias
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anopolis and Aradena.
Aradena
Hamlet
Photo: Jerzystrzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aradena is a hamlet, which is situated 5 km southwest of Sfakia.
Sfakia
- Category: municipality of Greece
- Location: Chania, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Sfakia” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սֆակիա”
- Catalan: “Sfakià”
- Cebuano: “Dimos Sfakia”
- Chinese: “斯法基亚”
- Chinese: “斯法基亞”
- Dutch: “Sfakia”
- Finnish: “Sfakiá”
- French: “dème de Sfakiá”
- French: “Dème de Sfakiá”
- German: “Sfakia”
- Greek: “Δήμος Σφακίων”
- Greek: “Σφακίων”
- Ido: “Municipo Sfakia”
- Italian: “Sfakia”
- Japanese: “スファキア”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sfakiá”
- Polish: “Sfakia”
- Portuguese: “Sfakiá”
- Russian: “Сфакья”
- Slovenian: “Dimos Sfakia”
- Slovenian: “Občina Sfakia”
- Spanish: “Dímos Sfakíon”
- Spanish: “municipio de Sfakia”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Sfakia”
- Spanish: “Sfakiá”
- Spanish: “Δήμος Σφακίων”
- Swedish: “Dimos Sfakia”
- Tatar: “Сфакья муниципалитеты”
- Turkish: “İsfakiye belediyesi”
- Turkish: “İsfakiye”
- Vietnamese: “Sfakia”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Sfakia”
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