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.
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Crete
- Region with about 623,000 residents
- …is also known as “Candia”
- Description: island of Greece
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Latitude of center
35.1667° or 35° 10′ north
Longitude of center
25° east
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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: “جزيرة كريت”
- Arabic: “كريت”
- Aragonese: “Creta”
- Armenian: “Կրետե”
- Asturian: “Creta”
- Azerbaijani: “Krit”
- Balinese: “Kréta”
- Bashkir: “Крит”
- 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: “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: “Girît”
- 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: “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”
- Tsonga: “Crete”
- Turkish: “Crete”
- Turkish: “Girid”
- Turkish: “Girit Adası”
- Turkish: “Girit”
- Ukrainian: “Крит”
- Ukrainian: “Периферія Крит”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kreta”
- Urdu: “اقریطش”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ کریٹ”
- Urdu: “کریٹ”
- Uzbek: “Krit”
- 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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