Chania
Chania is a beautiful port town on the northwest coast of Crete, with an atmosphere reflecting its Venetian and Turkish past. Highly livable spot.
- Type: City with 53,900 residents
- Description: city in Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Canea”, “Chaniá”, “Haniá”, “Hanya”, and “Kreta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kydonia and Yiali Tzami.
Kydonia
Archaeological site
Kydonia, also known as Cydonia was an ancient city located at the site of present-day Chania near the west end of the island of Crete in Greece. The city is known from archaeological remains dating back to the Minoan era as well as literary and historical sources.
Yiali Tzami
The Küçük Hasan Pasha Mosque, also known as the Yalı Mosque, is a former mosque located in Chania, on the island of Crete, Greece. Built in 1645 during the Ottoman era, the former mosque was abandoned in 1923, and subsequently repurposed as an exhibition center.
Archaeological Museum of Chania
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mournies and Souda.
Mournies
Village
Mournies is a village in Crete, in the regional unit of Chania. Between 1997 and 2010, it was the seat of the former municipality of Eleftherios Venizelos. Mournies is famous for being the place of birth of the statesman Eleftherios Venizelos.
Souda
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Chania
Latitude
35.5121° or 35° 30′ 44″ north
Longitude
24.0192° or 24° 1′ 9″ east
Population
53,900
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
IATA airport code
CHQ
Open location code
8G76G269+RM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Chania” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Hania”
- Arabic: “خانيا”
- Arabic: “خانية”
- Arabic: “كانيا”
- Arabic: “هانيا”
- Aragonese: “Janiá”
- Armenian: “Խանիա”
- Armenian: “Խանյա”
- Asturian: “La Canea”
- Basque: “Kanea”
- Belarusian: “Ханья”
- Bengali: “হানিয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Ханя”
- Catalan: “Càndia”
- Catalan: “Canea”
- Catalan: “Hanià”
- Catalan: “Khanià”
- Catalan: “La Canea”
- Cebuano: “Chaniá”
- Chinese: “哈尼亚”
- Chinese: “哈尼亞”
- Chinese: “干尼亚”
- Chinese: “干尼亞”
- Croatian: “Hania”
- Croatian: “Khania”
- Czech: “Chania”
- Danish: “Chania”
- Dutch: “Chania”
- Dutch: “Kydonia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خانيه”
- Esperanto: “Ĥania”
- Esperanto: “Ĥanio”
- Estonian: “Chaniá”
- Estonian: “Hania”
- Finnish: “Canea”
- Finnish: “Chania”
- Finnish: “Chaniá”
- Finnish: “Hania”
- Finnish: “Khania”
- Finnish: “Kydonia”
- French: “Canée”
- French: “Chaniá”
- French: “La Canee”
- French: “La Canée”
- Georgian: “ხანია”
- German: “Chania”
- German: “Chaniá”
- German: “Hania”
- German: “Kanea”
- Greek: “Chaniá”
- Greek: “Χανιά”
- Greek: “Χανίων”
- Gujarati: “ચાનિયા”
- Hebrew: “חאניה”
- Hindi: “खानिया”
- Hungarian: “Haniá”
- Ido: “Hania”
- Indonesian: “Chania”
- Indonesian: “Khania”
- Irish: “Chania”
- Italian: “Canea”
- Italian: “Chania”
- Italian: “Hania”
- Italian: “Haniá”
- Italian: “Hanià”
- Italian: “La Canea”
- Japanese: “カニア”
- Japanese: “ハニア”
- Kannada: “ಚೇನಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “하니아”
- Latin: “Chania”
- Latin: “Cydonia”
- Latvian: “Hanija”
- Latvian: “Hanja”
- Limburgan: “Chania”
- Lithuanian: “Chania”
- Lithuanian: “Chanija”
- Luxembourgish: “Chania”
- Macedonian: “Хања”
- Malay: “Chania”
- Marathi: “चेनीया”
- Moksha: “Ханья”
- Northern Frisian: “Chania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaniá”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chánia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khaniá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chanea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chania”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chaniá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hania”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hanya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khanea”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khania”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khaniá”
- Norwegian: “Chania”
- Norwegian: “Khaniá”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canèa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “La Canèa”
- Persian: “خانیا”
- Polish: “Canea”
- Polish: “Chania”
- Polish: “Chaniá”
- Polish: “Hanía”
- Polish: “Kanea”
- Portuguese: “Caneia”
- Portuguese: “Chanéia”
- Portuguese: “Chania”
- Portuguese: “Chaniá”
- Portuguese: “Hania”
- Portuguese: “Kidonia”
- Portuguese: “Xania”
- Romanian: “Chania”
- Russian: “Канеа”
- Russian: “Хания”
- Russian: “Ханья”
- Serbian: “Canea”
- Serbian: “Hanija”
- Serbian: “Χανιά”
- Serbian: “Канија”
- Serbian: “Ханија”
- Serbian: “Хања”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kanija”
- Sicilian: “Canea”
- Silesian: “Chania”
- Sinhala: “චනියා”
- Slovak: “Chania”
- Slovenian: “Chania”
- Slovenian: “Hania”
- Slovenian: “Haniá”
- Slovenian: “Hanija”
- Slovenian: “Khaniá”
- Spanish: “Canea”
- Spanish: “Chania”
- Spanish: “Chaniá”
- Spanish: “Hania”
- Spanish: “Jania”
- Spanish: “Janiá”
- Spanish: “Kania”
- Spanish: “La Canea”
- Spanish: “Χανιά”
- Swedish: “Chania”
- Swedish: “Hania”
- Swedish: “Hánia”
- Tamil: “சானியா”
- Telugu: “చనీయా”
- Thai: “คาเนีย”
- Thai: “ชาเนีย”
- Turkish: “Chania”
- Turkish: “Hania”
- Turkish: “Hanya”
- Ukrainian: “Ханья”
- Urdu: “چانیا”
- Urdu: “خانیا”
- Venetian: “Canea”
- Venetian: “La Canea”
- Vietnamese: “Chania”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chania”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khania”
- Western Armenian: “Խանիա”
- Wu Chinese: “哈尼亚”
- Yue Chinese: “哈尼亞”
- “Hanya”
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