Rethymno
Rethymno is one of the four regional units of Crete, Greece. Its capital is the city of Rethymno. Today, its main income is tourism. The countryside is also based economically on agriculture and herding.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Rethymno and Plakias.
Rethymno
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Rethymno or Rethimno is a beautiful city on the island of Crete in Greece. It has picturesque small lanes of shops selling mostly tourist goods and a newer area of town with normal shops.
Plakias
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Plakias is a village in Rethymno region of Crete. Plakias has grown from a fishing jetty and a few houses in the 1960s to a tourist resort today. Plakias has a 1300-metre-long sandy beach and there are several other beaches within walking distance.
Bali
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Bali is in Rethymno Prefecture on the island of Crete in Greece. It has several beaches of varying size and countless hotels and apartment complexes.
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Anogeia
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Anogeia is a village and capital of the homonymous municipality in prefecture of Rethimno at 512 m.
Rethymno
- Type: regional unit of Greece with 86,500 residents
- Description: regional unit of Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Nomós Rethímnis”, “Nomós Rethímnou”, “Nomos Rethymnis”, “Nomós Rethýmnou”, “Rethímni”, “Rethymni”, “Rethýmnis”, “Rethymno Regional Unit”, and “Rethymnon Regional Unit”
- Location: Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Urdu—“Rethymno” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Retimno vilayəti”
- Basque: “Retimno (unitate erregionala)”
- Basque: “Retimno”
- Catalan: “unitat perifèrica de Réthimno”
- Catalan: “Unitat perifèrica de Réthimno”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Rethýmnis”
- Chinese: “雷西姆农专区”
- Czech: “regionální jednotka na Krétě v Řecku”
- Czech: “Rethymno (regionální jednotka)”
- Czech: “Rethymno”
- Danish: “Rethymno”
- Estonian: “Réthymno piirkonnaüksus”
- Finnish: “Réthymno”
- Finnish: “Réthymnon alueyksikkö”
- French: “district régional de Réthymnon”
- French: “Réthymnon”
- German: “Rethymno”
- Greek: “Νομός Ρεθύμνης”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Ρεθύμνης”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ρεθύμνου”
- Greek: “Ρέθυμνο”
- Ido: “Provinco Retimno”
- Interlingua: “Unitate Regional Rethymno”
- Italian: “Retimno”
- Italian: “Retimo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Periferieininga Réthymno”
- Polish: “Jednostka regionalna Retimno”
- Portuguese: “Retimno (unidade regional)”
- Portuguese: “Retimno”
- Portuguese: “Unidade regional de Rethymno”
- Portuguese: “Unidade regional de Retimno”
- Russian: “Ретимнон”
- Slovenian: “Regionalna enota Retimnon”
- Spanish: “Perifereiakí enótita Rethýmnou”
- Spanish: “unidad periférica de Rethymno”
- Spanish: “Unidad periferica de Retino”
- Spanish: “Unidad periférica de Rétino”
- Spanish: “Unidad regional de Rethymno”
- Spanish: “Unidad regional de Rethymnon”
- Spanish: “Περιφερειακή ενότητα Ρεθύμνου”
- Swedish: “Nomós”
- Turkish: “Resmo ilçesi”
- Urdu: “ریتھیمنو”
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