Lasithi
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Agios Nikolaos and Sitia.
Agios Nikolaos
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Agios Nikolaos or Aghios Nikolaos is a coastal city on the Greek island of Crete, lying east of the island's capital Heraklion, north of the city of Ierapetra and west of the city of Sitia.
Sitia
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Sitia or Siteia is a port town and a municipality in Lasithi, Crete, Greece. The town has 11,166 inhabitants and the municipality has 20,438. It lies east of Agios Nikolaos and northeast of Ierapetra.
Ierapetra
Ierapetra is a city in Crete. Having the distinction of being the southernmost city facing the African coast, Ierapetra enjoys the smoothest, almost rainless weather in Europe, with a temperature that rarely drops below 12 °C all year.
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Zakros
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Zakros is a city in Crete. It is one of six Minoan Palatial Centres to be listed as a world heritage site.
Elounda
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Elounda is a city on Crete. It is a seaside and popular tourist destination known for its luxury seaside resorts.
Lasithi Plateau
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The Lasithi Plateau is a high endorheic plateau, located in the Lasithi regional unit in eastern Crete, Greece. Since the 1997 Kapodistrias reform, it is a municipality whose seat is Tzermiado and the second biggest village is Agios Georgios.
Palekastro
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Palaikastro or Palekastro, with the Godart and Olivier abbreviation PK, is a thriving town, geographic heir to a long line of settlements extending back into prehistoric times, at the east end of the Mediterranean island Crete.
KaloChorio Istron
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KaloChorio Istron is a village in the Lasithi Prefecture region of Crete.
Lasithi
- Type: prefecture of Greece with 84,600 residents
- Description: regional unit of Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Lasithi Prefecture”, “Lasithi Regional Unit”, “Lassithion”, and “Nomos Lasithiou”
- Category: regional unit of Greece
- Location: Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Lasithi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاسيثي”
- Armenian: “Լեսիթիոն”
- Basque: “Lasiti”
- Bulgarian: “Ласити”
- Catalan: “Lassithi”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Lassithi”
- Catalan: “unitat perifèrica de Lassithi”
- Catalan: “Unitat perifèrica de Lassithi”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Lasithíou”
- Chinese: “拉西錫專區”
- Chinese: “拉西锡专区”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Lasiti”
- Czech: “Lasithi (regionální jednotka)”
- Czech: “Lasithi”
- Czech: “Prefektura Lasithi”
- Danish: “Lasithi”
- Dutch: “Lasithi”
- Dutch: “Lasíthi”
- Dutch: “Lassithi”
- Esperanto: “Lasitio”
- Estonian: “Lasíthi piirkonnaüksus”
- Finnish: “Lasithi”
- Finnish: “Lasíthi”
- Finnish: “Lasíthin alueyksikkö”
- Finnish: “Lasithin lääni”
- Finnish: “Lasithin maakunta”
- Finnish: “Lasithin prefektuuri”
- Finnish: “Lasíthin prefektuuri”
- Finnish: “Lassithin prefektuuri”
- French: “district régional de Lassíthi”
- French: “Lassithi”
- French: “Lassíthi”
- French: “nome de Lassíthi”
- Georgian: “ლასითი”
- Georgian: “ლასითის ნომი”
- Georgian: “ლასიტი”
- German: “GR-92”
- German: “Lasithi”
- Greek: “Λασίθι”
- Greek: “Νομός Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Λασιθίου”
- Indonesian: “Lasithi”
- Italian: “Lasithi”
- Japanese: “ラシティ”
- Japanese: “ラシティ県”
- Korean: “라시티 현”
- Korean: “라시티”
- Korean: “라시티현”
- Latin: “Lasithium”
- Limburgan: “Lassithi”
- Maltese: “Unità Reġjonali ta‘ Lasithi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lasithi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lasithi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lasíthi”
- Norwegian: “Lasithi”
- Polish: “Jednostka regionalna Lasiti”
- Polish: “Lasithi”
- Polish: “Lasiti”
- Polish: “Nomos Lasiti”
- Portuguese: “Lasiti”
- Portuguese: “Lasíti”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Lasithi”
- Russian: “Ласити”
- Russian: “Ласитион”
- Serbian: “Lasiti”
- Serbian: “Ласити”
- Serbian: “Префектура Ласити”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Lasiti”
- Slovak: “Lasithi”
- Slovenian: “GR-92”
- Slovenian: “Nomos Lasiti”
- Slovenian: “Regionalna enota Lasiti”
- Slovenian: “Νομός Λασιθίου”
- Spanish: “Lashiti”
- Spanish: “Lasithi”
- Spanish: “Lasíthi”
- Spanish: “Lasizi”
- Spanish: “Nomós Lasithíou”
- Spanish: “Perifereiakí Enótita Lasithíou”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Lasithi”
- Spanish: “Unidad periferica de Lasithi”
- Spanish: “unidad periférica de Lasithi”
- Spanish: “Unidad periférica de Lasithi”
- Spanish: “Unidad Periférica de Lasithi”
- Spanish: “Unidad Regional de Lasithi”
- Spanish: “Λασίθι”
- Spanish: “Νομός Λασιθίου”
- Spanish: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Λασιθίου”
- Swedish: “Lasithi”
- Turkish: “Laşit ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Laşit”
- Turkish: “Lasithi”
- Turkish: “Laşiti”
- Ukrainian: “Ласіті”
- Ukrainian: “Ласітіон”
- Urdu: “لاسیتھی پریفیکچر”
- Urdu: “لاسیتھی”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lasithi”
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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 Wikipedia page “Lasithi”. Photo: Llez, CC BY-SA 3.0.