Crete
Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and is the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea - after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. It is located between the Sea of Crete and the Libyan Sea, south of the Peloponnese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Heraklion and Chania.
Heraklion
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Heraklion or Iraklio is the major city and capital of Crete, the largest of the Greek islands. Its archaeological museum holds the remains of the 4000-year-old Minoan civilization, which centred on the nearby palace of Knossos, with its Minotaur legend.
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.
Rethymno
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Rethymno or Rethimno is a beautiful city on the island of Crete in Greece. It has picturesque small lanes of shops selling mostly tourist goods and a newer area of town with normal shops.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Lasithi and Chania.
Lasithi
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Lasithi is the easternmost regional unit on the island of Crete, to the east of Heraklion. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, the other major towns being Ierapetra and Sitia.
Chania
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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.
Rethymno
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Rethymno is one of the four regional units of Crete, Greece. Its capital is the city of Rethymno. Today, its main income is tourism. The countryside is also based economically on agriculture and herding.
Crete
- Type: Region with 623,000 residents
- Description: island of Greece
- Also known as: “Candia”
- Categories: island and traditional geographic divisions of Greece
- Location: Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Crete” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kreta”
- Albanian: “Kreta”
- Albanian: “Kretë”
- Amharic: “ቀርጤስ”
- Amharic: “ክሬታ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κρήτα”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κρῆται”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κρήτη”
- Arabic: “أقريطش”
- Arabic: “إقريطش”
- Arabic: “جزيرة كريت”
- Arabic: “كريت”
- Aragonese: “Creta”
- Armenian: “Կրետե”
- Asturian: “Creta”
- Azerbaijani: “Krit”
- Balinese: “Kréta”
- Basque: “Kreta”
- Batak Toba: “Kreta”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Крыт”
- Belarusian: “Крыт”
- Bengali: “ক্রিট”
- Bosnian: “Kreta”
- Bosnian: “Krit”
- Breton: “Kreta”
- Breton: “Kretat”
- Breton: “Kretia”
- Bulgarian: “Крит”
- Catalan: “Creta”
- Catalan: “Cretencs”
- Catalan: “Illa de Creta”
- Cebuano: “Crete”
- Central Kurdish: “کریت”
- Chinese: “Crete”
- Chinese: “克里特”
- Chinese: “克里特岛”
- Chinese: “克里特島”
- Chinese: “革哩底”
- Chuvash: “Крит”
- Corsican: “Creta”
- Croatian: “Kreta”
- Czech: “Kréta”
- Czech: “Kriti”
- Danish: “Kreta”
- Dimli (individual language): “Girit”
- Dutch: “Candia”
- Dutch: “Creta”
- Dutch: “Kirid”
- Dutch: “Kreta”
- Dutch: “Kretenzer”
- Eastern Mari: “Крит”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كريت”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Kreto”
- Esperanto: “Kreto”
- Estonian: “Kreeta saar”
- Estonian: “Kreeta”
- Faroese: “Kreta”
- Finnish: “Kreeta”
- French: “Crète”
- French: “île de Crète”
- French: “Candie” (historical)
- Galician: “Creta”
- Galician: “Illa de Creta”
- Georgian: “კრეტა”
- German: “Creta”
- German: “Girit”
- German: “Kreta”
- German: “Kriti”
- Gothic: “𐌺𐍂𐌴𐍄𐌰”
- Greek: “Kríti”
- Greek: “Κρήτη”
- Gujarati: “ક્રેટ”
- Hausa: “Crete”
- Hebrew: “כריתים”
- Hebrew: “כרתים”
- Hebrew: “מחוז כרתים”
- Hindi: “क्रीट”
- Hindi: “क्रीत”
- Hungarian: “Kréta”
- Hungarian: “Κρήτη”
- Icelandic: “Krít”
- Ido: “Insulo Kriti”
- Ido: “Kriti”
- Indonesian: “Kreta”
- Interlingua: “Creta”
- Interlingue: “Creta”
- Irish: “An Chréit”
- Italian: “Creta”
- Italian: “isola di Creta”
- Japanese: “クリート島”
- Japanese: “クレータ”
- Japanese: “クレータ島”
- Japanese: “クレタ”
- Japanese: “クレタ島”
- Javanese: “Kreta”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ರೀಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Крит”
- Kirghiz: “Крит”
- Komering: “Kreta”
- Korean: “크레타 섬”
- Korean: “크레타 지역”
- Korean: “크레타”
- Korean: “크레테 섬”
- Korean: “크레테”
- Korean: “크리티 섬”
- Korean: “크리티 주”
- Korean: “크리티 지역”
- Korean: “크리티”
- Kurdish: “Krît”
- Latin: “Creta”
- Latvian: “Krēta”
- Latvian: “Krētas sala”
- Limburgan: “Kreta”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Criti”
- Lithuanian: “Kreta”
- Lithuanian: “Kretos periferija”
- Lombard: “Creta”
- Low German: “Kreta”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kreta”
- Luxembourgish: “Kreta”
- Macedonian: “Крит”
- Malagasy: “Kreta”
- Malagasy: “Krity”
- Malay: “Crete”
- Malay: “Kriti”
- Malayalam: “ക്രീറ്റ്”
- Maltese: “Kreta”
- Marathi: “क्रीट”
- Mazanderani: “کرت”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gáik-lī-dī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Crete”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kriti”
- Mingrelian: “კრეტა”
- Moroccan Arabic: “كريت”
- Northern Frisian: “Kreeta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kreta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kretar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kreter”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kríti”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Candia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Creta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crete”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Girit”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kreta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kriti”
- Norwegian: “Kreta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Creta”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܪܛܐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܪܝܛܐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܪܝܛܝ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Creto”
- Ossetian: “Крит”
- Persian: “جزیره کرت”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ کرت”
- Persian: “کرت”
- Persian: “کریت”
- Polish: “Kreta”
- Pontic: “Κρήτη”
- Portuguese: “Creta”
- Portuguese: “Cretense”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Creta”
- Pushto: “کرت”
- Quechua: “Creta”
- Quechua: “Kriti”
- Romanian: “Creta”
- Romanian: “Insula Creta”
- Russian: “Крит”
- Rusyn: “Крета”
- Sardinian: “Creta”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kreta”
- Scots: “Crete”
- Serbian: “Крета”
- Serbian: “Крит”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krit”
- Sicilian: “Creta”
- Sicilian: “Crita”
- Silesian: “Kreta”
- Sinhala: “ක්රෙටේ”
- Slovak: “Kréta”
- Slovenian: “Kandija”
- Slovenian: “Kreta”
- South Azerbaijani: “کرت”
- Spanish: “Candia”
- Spanish: “Creta”
- Spanish: “Cretense”
- Spanish: “Isla de Creta”
- Swahili: “Krete”
- Swedish: “Kreta”
- Swedish: “Kretaner”
- Swiss German: “Kreta”
- Tagalog: “Creta”
- Tamil: “கிரீட்”
- Tatar: “Крит”
- Telugu: “క్రీట్”
- Thai: “Crete”
- Thai: “เกาะครีต”
- Thai: “เกาะครีท”
- Thai: “ครีต”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kreta”
- Tsonga: “Crete”
- Turkish: “Crete”
- Turkish: “Girid”
- Turkish: “Girit Adası”
- Turkish: “Girit”
- Ukrainian: “Крит”
- Ukrainian: “критяни”
- Ukrainian: “периферія Крит”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kreta”
- Urdu: “اقریطش”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ کریٹ”
- Urdu: “کریٹ”
- Uzbek: “Krit”
- Venetian: “Candia”
- Venetian: “Càndia”
- Venetian: “Creta”
- Vietnamese: “Crete”
- Vietnamese: “đảo Crete”
- Vietnamese: “Kríti”
- Vlaams: “Kreta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Krete”
- Welsh: “Creta”
- Welsh: “Crete”
- Western Armenian: “Կրետէ”
- Western Frisian: “Kreta”
- Western Panjabi: “کریٹ”
- Wu Chinese: “克里特岛”
- Yue Chinese: “克里特”
- Zeeuws: “Kreta”
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