Paleochora
Paleochora is a small town of about 2000 inhabitants nestling 75 km southwest of Chania, under the immense White Mountains on the Greek island of Crete.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Velela, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Town with 2,370 residents
- Description: village in Chania, Greece
- Also known as: “Palaiochora”, “Palaiokhóra”, “Paleiochora”, “Selino Kasteli”, and “Sélino Kastélli”
- Postal code: 73001
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Selinos.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anydri.
Anydri
Village
Photo: Kaelkael, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Anydri is a village, which is situated 4 km northeast of Paleochora.
Paleochora
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kantanos-Selino, Chania, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.2306° or 35° 13′ 50″ northLongitude
23.6822° or 23° 40′ 56″ eastPopulation
2,370Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR PCHOpen location code
8G756MJJ+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 247946516OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Paleochora” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالايوخورا”
- Arabic: “باليوكورا (هانيا)”
- Arabic: “باليوكورا، هانيا”
- Catalan: “Palaiochora”
- Catalan: “Paleochora”
- Catalan: “Paleókhora”
- Cebuano: “Palaióchora”
- Chinese: “帕莱奥霍拉”
- Dutch: “Paleochora”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالايوخورا”
- Finnish: “Palaiochora”
- Finnish: “Palaióchora”
- Finnish: “Palaioxora”
- Finnish: “Paleochora”
- Finnish: “Paleohora”
- Finnish: “Paleóhora”
- French: “Paleóchora”
- German: “Palaiochora”
- German: “Paleochora”
- German: “Paleochóra”
- Greek: “Palaióchora”
- Greek: “Παλαιοχώρα Χανίων”
- Greek: “Παλαιόχωρα”
- Irish: “Palaiochora”
- Italian: “Paleochora”
- Japanese: “パレオコラ”
- Japanese: “パレオホラ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paleochora”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paleokhora”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paleokhóra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paleókhora”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paleokhóra”
- Norwegian: “Paleokhora”
- Portuguese: “Palaiochora”
- Russian: “Палеохора”
- Russian: “Палиохора”
- Swedish: “Paleochora”
- Swedish: “Paleohora”
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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 “Paleochora”. Photo: Markoz, CC0.