Malia
Malia is in Crete. It is 34 kilometres east of Heraklion, the Cretan capital city. It is one of six Minoan Palatial Centres to be listed as a world heritage site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 3,220 residents
- Description: town in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Malia, Crete”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Malia Palace.
Malia Palace
Archaeological site
Malia is a Minoan and Mycenaean archaeological site located on the northern coast of Crete in the Heraklion area. It is about 35 kilometers east of the ancient site of Knossos and 40 kilometers east of the modern city of Heraklion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stalida and Mochos.
Stalida
Village
Photo: Алексей Шулик, CC BY 3.0.
Stalida is a village that lies between Malia and Hersonissos on the north coast of Crete, Greece. The name derives from the Greek verb stalizo, which means 'stop for a rest' as this was a location where shepherds and farms rested in between villages.
Mochos
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mochos is a village, which is situated 4 km southwest of Malia.
Malia
- Category: locality
- Location: Chersonissos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.2827° or 35° 16′ 58″ northLongitude
25.4629° or 25° 27′ 47″ eastPopulation
3,220Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR GAOOpen location code
8G777FM7+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 5211405801OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Malia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماليا، إراكليون”
- Arabic: “ماليا”
- Armenian: “Մալիա”
- Asturian: “Malia”
- Belarusian: “Малія”
- Catalan: “Màlia”
- Cebuano: “Mália”
- Chinese: “馬利亞 (克里特)”
- Chinese: “馬里亞(克里特)”
- Chinese: “马利亚 (克里特)”
- Chinese: “马利亚”
- Chinese: “马里亚(克里特)”
- Chinese: “马里亚”
- Czech: “Malia”
- Dutch: “Malia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماليا”
- Finnish: “Malia”
- Finnish: “Mália”
- French: “Mália”
- German: “Malia”
- Greek: “Μάλια Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Μάλια”
- Hebrew: “מאליה”
- Hungarian: “Mália”
- Italian: “Malia”
- Japanese: “マリア (クレタ島)”
- Latin: “Malia (Creta)”
- Latin: “Malia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mália”
- Persian: “مالیا (کرت)”
- Persian: “مالیا”
- Polish: “Malia”
- Portuguese: “Malia”
- Portuguese: “Mália”
- Romanian: “Malia”
- Russian: “Малия”
- Serbian: “Малија”
- Slovak: “Malia”
- Slovenian: “Malija, Kreta”
- Slovenian: “Malija”
- Spanish: “Malia”
- Swedish: “Mália”
- Turkish: “Malia”
- Turkish: “Malya, Yunanistan”
- Ukrainian: “Малія”
- Ukrainian: “Маллія”
- Urdu: “مالیا، کریت”
- Western Armenian: “Մալիա”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Malia”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.