Sea of Crete

The Sea of Crete, or Cretan Sea, is a , part of the , located in its southern extremity, with a total surface area of 45,000 km2. The sea stretches to the north of the island of , east of the islands of Kythera and , south of the , and west of the islands of , and Kassos.
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: southern portion of the Aegean Sea
  • Also known as: “Cretan Sea”

Sea of Crete

Latitude
36° north
Longitude
25° east
Open location code
8G862X2X+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305639198
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Wiki­data ID
Q193149
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Satellite Map

Discover Sea of Crete from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sea of Crete” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kretensiese See”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κρητικὸν πέλαγος”
  • Arabic: “بحر كريت”
  • Aragonese: “Mar de Creta”
  • Armenian: “Կրետեական ծով”
  • Armenian: “Կրետեի ծով”
  • Azerbaijani: “Krit dənizi”
  • Basque: “Kretako itsasoa”
  • Belarusian: “Крыцкае мора”
  • Bosnian: “Kretsko more”
  • Breton: “Mor Kreta”
  • Bulgarian: “Критско море”
  • Catalan: “mar de Creta”
  • Catalan: “Mar de Creta”
  • Chinese: “克里特海”
  • Chuvash: “Крит тинĕсĕ”
  • Croatian: “Kretsko more”
  • Czech: “Krétské moře”
  • Danish: “Kretensiske Hav”
  • Dutch: “Kretenzische Zee”
  • Dutch: “Zee van Kreta”
  • Esperanto: “Kreta maro”
  • Esperanto: “Kreta Maro”
  • Estonian: “Kreeta meri”
  • Finnish: “Kreetanmeri”
  • French: “Mer de Crete”
  • French: “mer de Crète”
  • French: “Mer de Crète”
  • Galician: “Mar de Creta”
  • Georgian: “კრეტის ზღვა”
  • German: “Kretisches Meer”
  • Greek: “Κρητικό πέλαγος”
  • Greek: “Κρητικό Πέλαγος”
  • Hebrew: “ים כרתים”
  • Hungarian: “Krétai-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Krítarhaf”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Kreta”
  • Italian: “Mare di Creta”
  • Japanese: “クレタ海”
  • Korean: “크레타 만”
  • Korean: “크레타만”
  • Korean: “크레타해”
  • Kurdish: “Derya Crete”
  • Kurdish: “Derya Kreta”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Girîtê”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Krîtê”
  • Kurdish: “دەریایا کریتێ”
  • Latin: “Creticum mare”
  • Latvian: “Krētas jūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Kretos jūra”
  • Macedonian: “Критско Море”
  • Malay: “Laut Crete”
  • Malay: “Laut Kriti”
  • Mingrelian: “კრეტაშ ზუღა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kretahavet”
  • Norwegian: “Kretahavet”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “دریای کرت”
  • Polish: “Morze Kreteńskie”
  • Polish: “Morze Morteńskie”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Creta”
  • Romanian: “Marea Cretei”
  • Russian: “Критское море”
  • Scots: “Sea o Crete”
  • Serbian: “Критско море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kretsko more”
  • Slovak: “Krétske more”
  • Slovenian: “Kretsko morje”
  • Spanish: “mar de Creta”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Creta”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Krete”
  • Swedish: “Kretahavet”
  • Tamil: “கிரீட் கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Крит диңгезе”
  • Thai: “ทะเลครีต”
  • Turkish: “Girit Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Критське море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kretiske morjo”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ کریٹ”
  • Venetian: “Mar de Creta”
  • Vietnamese: “biển Crete”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Crete”
  • Vietnamese: “biển Kriti”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat han Crete”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sea of Crete”
  • Western Armenian: “Կրետական ծով”
  • Western Frisian: “Kretinzyske See”
  • Yue Chinese: “克里特海”

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