Chania
Chania, also spelled Hania, is one of the four regional units of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Chania and Kissamos.
Chania
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Chania is a beautiful port town on the northwest coast of Crete, with an atmosphere reflecting its Venetian and Turkish past. Highly livable spot.
Kissamos
Kissamos is a town and a municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the Chania regional unit and of the former Kissamos Province which covers the northwest corner of the island.
Agia Roumeli
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Agia Roumeli is a coastal village in southwestern Crete near the southern end of the Samaria Gorge. Typically hikers travel from Chania to Omalos via coach and then hike the gorge.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Paleochora and Hora Sfakion.
Paleochora
Paleochora is a small town of about 2000 inhabitants nestling 75 km southwest of Chania, under the immense White Mountains on the Greek island of Crete.
Hora Sfakion
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Chora Sfakion is a harbour village in the southwest of Crete. It has about 475 inhabitants, and is the capital of Sfakia region.
Drapanias
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Drapanias is a small village in Chania regional unit in northwestern Crete. It is the principal town in the Cretan municipality of Mythimna. It was built in the ruins of the ancient town of Mythimna.
Chania
- Type: regional unit of Greece with 148,000 residents
- Description: regional unit of Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Chania regional unit”, “Chania Regional Unit”, “Chaníon”, “Nomos Chanias”, and “Nomós Khaníon”
- Category: prefecture of Greece
- Location: Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Chania” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خانية”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة خانية”
- Asturian: “Unidá periférica de La Canea”
- Basque: “Kanea (unitate erregionala)”
- Basque: “Kanea”
- Bulgarian: “Ханя”
- Catalan: “Khanià”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Khanià”
- Catalan: “unitat perifèrica de Khanià”
- Catalan: “Unitat perifèrica de Khanià”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Chaniás”
- Chinese: “哈尼亚专区”
- Chinese: “哈尼亚州”
- Chinese: “哈尼亞專區”
- Chinese: “干尼亚州”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Hania”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Kania”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Khania”
- Czech: “Chania”
- Danish: “Chania”
- Dutch: “Chania”
- Esperanto: “Ĥanio”
- Estonian: “Chaniá piirkonnaüksus”
- Finnish: “Chaniá”
- Finnish: “Chanián alueyksikkö”
- French: “district régional de la Canée”
- French: “La Canée”
- French: “nome de la Canée”
- Georgian: “ხანია”
- Georgian: “ხანიის ნომი”
- German: “Chania”
- German: “GR-94”
- Greek: “Chaniá”
- Greek: “Nomós Chaníon”
- Greek: “Νομός Χανιάς”
- Greek: “Νομός Χανίων”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων”
- Greek: “Χανιά”
- Ido: “Provinco Hania”
- Italian: “La Canea”
- Italian: “Prefettura della Canea”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Chania”
- Italian: “Unità periferica di La Canea”
- Japanese: “ハニア県”
- Korean: “하니아 현”
- Korean: “하니아현”
- Latin: “Cydonia”
- Limburgan: “Chania”
- Lithuanian: “Chanijos nomas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khania prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khaniá prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khania”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khaniá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chania prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khaniá periferieining”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khania prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khaniá prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Periferieininga Khaniá”
- Norwegian: “Chania”
- Norwegian: “Khaniá”
- Polish: “Jednostka regionalna Chania”
- Portuguese: “Chania (prefeitura)”
- Portuguese: “Chania (unidade periférica)”
- Portuguese: “Chania”
- Portuguese: “Hania (prefeitura)”
- Portuguese: “Hania (unidade regional)”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Cania”
- Russian: “Ханья”
- Serbian: “Hanija”
- Serbian: “Префектура Канија”
- Serbian: “Префектура Ханија”
- Serbian: “Ханија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kanija”
- Slovenian: “GR-94”
- Slovenian: “Regionalna enota Hania”
- Spanish: “Chania”
- Spanish: “Chaniá”
- Spanish: “Kanea”
- Spanish: “Kania”
- Spanish: “La Canea”
- Spanish: “Perifereiakí Enótita Chaníon”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Chania”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de la canea”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de La Canea”
- Spanish: “unidad periférica de Chania”
- Spanish: “Unidad periferica de La Canea”
- Spanish: “unidad periférica de La Canea”
- Spanish: “Unidad periférica de La Canea”
- Spanish: “Unidad Regional de Chania”
- Spanish: “Unidad Regional de La Canea”
- Spanish: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων”
- Swedish: “Chania”
- Turkish: “Hanya ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Hanya”
- Ukrainian: “Ханья”
- Urdu: “خانیا”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khania”
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