Chalkidiki
Chalkidiki is one of the main tourist areas of Greece. It is a wide peninsula of Northern Greece that extends as three narrower peninsulas, as a whole forming the shape of a trident, or a three-fingered hand.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Mount Athos and Nea Moudania.
Mount Athos
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Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Nea Moudania
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Nea Moudania is a town in Chalkidiki, Greece. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial center of the regional unit of Chalkidiki.
Ouranoupoli
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Ouranoupoli is a village of 825 people in Greece. It is near Mount Athos and is mostly used as a jumping off point for there, or a place for women to stay, since they are not allowed in the monasteries.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Northern Chalkidiki and Sithonia.
Northern Chalkidiki
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Northern Chalkidiki is the part of the Central Macedonian region of Chalkidiki which joins its three peninsulas to the mainland.
Sithonia
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Sithonia, also known as Longos, is a peninsula and part of the larger peninsula of Chalkidiki in Greece. The Kassandra Peninsula lies to the west of Sithonia and the Mount Athos peninsula to the east.
Kassandra
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The coast of Kassandra peninsula, near the city of Thessaloniki, offers many excellent beaches.
Ammouliani
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Ammouliani, also known as Amoliani, is an island located in the Chalkidiki regional unit, Greece, 120 km from Thessaloniki. Administratively it is part of the municipal unit of Stagira-Akanthos.
Chalkidiki
- Type: historical region with 110,000 residents
- Description: peninsula of Macedonia, Greece
- Also known as: “Chalcidice”, “Chalcidicé”, “Chalkidikí”, “Halkidiki”, “Halkidikí”, and “Nomos Chalkidikis”
- Categories: peninsula and regional unit of Greece
- Location: Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Chalkidiki” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chalkidiki”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Χαλκιδική”
- Arabic: “Chalcidice”
- Arabic: “خالكيذيكي”
- Arabic: “هالكيديكي”
- Armenian: “Խալկիդիկի թերակղզի”
- Armenian: “Խալկիդիկի”
- Armenian: “Քաղկեդոնյան թերակղզի”
- Azerbaijani: “Halkidiki yarımadası”
- Basque: “Kaltzidika”
- Belarusian: “Халкідзікі”
- Belarusian: “Халкідыкі”
- Bulgarian: “Халкидика”
- Bulgarian: “Халкидики”
- Bulgarian: “Халкидически полуостров”
- Catalan: “Calcídia”
- Catalan: “Calcídica”
- Catalan: “península Calcídica”
- Catalan: “Península Calcídica”
- Cebuano: “Chersónisos Chalkidikís”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Chalkidikís”
- Chinese: “哈尔基季基”
- Chinese: “哈尔基季基半岛”
- Chinese: “哈爾基季基半島”
- Czech: “Chalkidiké”
- Czech: “Chalkidiki”
- Danish: “Chalkidiki”
- Danish: “Khalkidiki”
- Dutch: “Chalcidice”
- Dutch: “Chalkidiken”
- Dutch: “Chalkidiki”
- Dutch: “Halkidiki”
- Esperanto: “Ĥalkidiko”
- Estonian: “Chalkidike poolsaar”
- Estonian: “Chalkidike”
- Finnish: “Chalkidikí”
- Finnish: “Halkidiki”
- Finnish: “Khalkidike”
- French: “Chalcidique”
- French: “Chersonèse chalcidique”
- French: “Khalkidiki”
- Georgian: “ქალკედონის ნახევარკუნძული”
- German: “Chalcidice”
- German: “Chalkidike”
- German: “Chalkidiki”
- German: “Chalkidikí”
- German: “Halkidiki”
- Greek: “Khalkidhikí”
- Greek: “Nomós Khalkidhikís”
- Greek: “Νομός Χαλκιδικής”
- Greek: “Χαλκιδική”
- Hebrew: “חלקידיקי”
- Hebrew: “כלקידיקי”
- Hungarian: “Halkidikí”
- Hungarian: “Khalkidiké”
- Indonesian: “Kalkidiki”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Kalkidiki”
- Italian: “Calcidica”
- Italian: “penisola Calcidica”
- Italian: “Penisola Calcidica”
- Japanese: “カルキディケ”
- Japanese: “カルキディケー”
- Japanese: “カルキディケー半島”
- Japanese: “カルキディケ半島”
- Japanese: “ハルキディキ”
- Japanese: “ハルキディキ半島”
- Kazakh: “Халкидики”
- Korean: “할키디키반도”
- Latin: “Chalcidice”
- Latvian: “Halkidikes pussala”
- Macedonian: “Халкидик”
- Macedonian: “Халкидички округ”
- Macedonian: “Халкидички Полуостров”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chalkidike”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chalkidiki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Halkidikí prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Halkidiki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalkidiki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khalkidike”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khalkidiki”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khalkidikí”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khalkidiki”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khalkidikí”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khalkidki”
- Norwegian: “Khalkidiki”
- Persian: “خالکیدیکه”
- Polish: “Chalkidiki”
- Polish: “Chalkidyka”
- Polish: “Halkidiki”
- Polish: “Półwysep Chalcydycki”
- Polish: “Półwysep Chalkidiki”
- Portuguese: “Calcídica”
- Portuguese: “Khalkidhiki”
- Romanian: “Calchidia”
- Romanian: “Halkidiki”
- Romanian: “Peninsula Calcidică”
- Russian: “Полуостров Халкидики”
- Russian: “Халкидики”
- Russian: “Халкидонский полуостров”
- Rusyn: “Халкідікі”
- Scots: “Chalkidiki”
- Serbian: “Halkidiki”
- Serbian: “Префектура Халкидик”
- Serbian: “Халкидик”
- Serbian: “Халкидика”
- Serbian: “Халкидики”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Halkidik”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Halkidika”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Halkidiki”
- Slovak: “Chalkidiké”
- Slovak: “Chalkidiki”
- Slovenian: “Halkidika”
- Spanish: “Calcidica”
- Spanish: “Calcídica”
- Spanish: “Calcidico”
- Spanish: “Calcídico”
- Spanish: “Halkidiki”
- Spanish: “Jalkidiki”
- Spanish: “Jalkidikí”
- Swahili: “Halkidiki”
- Swedish: “Chalcidice”
- Swedish: “Chalkidike”
- Swedish: “Chalkidiké”
- Swedish: “Chalkidikḗ”
- Swedish: “Chalkidiki”
- Swedish: “Chalkidikí”
- Swedish: “Chalkidiký”
- Swedish: “Halkidike”
- Swedish: “Halkidiki (halvö i Grekland)”
- Swedish: “Halkidiki”
- Swedish: “Halkidikí”
- Swedish: “Kalkidike”
- Swedish: “Khalkidhiki”
- Swedish: “Khalkidhikí”
- Swedish: “Khalkidike”
- Swedish: “Khalkidiké”
- Swedish: “Khalkidikḗ”
- Swedish: “Khalkidikí”
- Tajik: “Ҳалкидикӣ”
- Turkish: “Chalcidice”
- Turkish: “Halkidiki”
- Turkish: “Halkidikya”
- Turkish: “Khalkidiki”
- Ukrainian: “Воттіки”
- Ukrainian: “Мігдонія”
- Ukrainian: “Халкидіки”
- Ukrainian: “Халкідіки”
- Ukrainian: “Халкідікі”
- Ukrainian: “Халкідонський півострів”
- Urdu: “خالکیدیکی”
- Venetian: “penìzoła Calsìdega”
- Vietnamese: “Chalcidice”
- Vietnamese: “Chalkidike”
- Vietnamese: “Chalkidiki”
- Vietnamese: “Halkidiki”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khalkidiki”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Chalkidiki”. Photo: Anton Lefterov, CC BY-SA 3.0.