Chania
Chania, also spelled Hania, is one of the four regional units of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania.
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Top destinations: Chania and Kissamos.
Chania
Kissamos
Kissamos is a town and a municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the Chania regional unit and of the former Kissamos Province which covers the northwest corner of the island.
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.
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Chania
- Type: regional unit of Greece with 148,000 residents
- Description: regional unit of Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Chania (prefeitura)”, “Chania (unidade periférica)”, “Chania prefektur”, “Chania regional unit”, “Chania Regional Unit”, “Chaníon”, “GR-94”, “Hania (prefeitura)”, “Hania (unidade regional)”, “Kania”, “Khanià”, “Khaniá periferieining”, “Khania prefektur”, “Khaniá prefektur”, “nome de la Canée”, “Nomos Chanias”, “Nomós Khaníon”, “Perifereiakí Enótita Chaníon”, “Prefectura de Chania”, “Prefectura de Khanià”, “Prefectura de la canea”, “Prefectura de La Canea”, “Prefektura Kania”, “Prefettura della Canea”, “Prefettura di Chania”, “unidad periférica de Chania”, “Unidad periferica de La Canea”, “Unidad Regional de Chania”, “Unidad Regional de La Canea”, “Unità periferica di La Canea”, “Префектура Канија”, “Префектура Ханија”, “مقاطعة خانية”, “하니아 현”, “哈尼亚州”, and “干尼亚州”
- Category: prefecture of Greece
- Location: Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
35.3333° or 35° 20′ north
Longitude of center
24° east
Population
148,000
Elevation
2,018 metres (6,621 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Chania” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خانية”
- Asturian: “Unidá periférica de La Canea”
- Basque: “Kanea (unitate erregionala)”
- Basque: “Kanea”
- Belarusian: “Ханья”
- Bulgarian: “Ханя”
- Catalan: “unitat perifèrica de Khanià”
- Catalan: “Unitat perifèrica de Khanià”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Chaniás”
- Chinese: “哈尼亚专区”
- Chinese: “哈尼亞專區”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Hania”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Khania”
- Czech: “Chania”
- Danish: “Chania”
- Dutch: “Chania”
- Esperanto: “Ĥanio”
- Estonian: “Chaniá piirkonnaüksus”
- Finnish: “Chaniá”
- Finnish: “Chanián alueyksikkö”
- French: “district régional de la Canée”
- French: “La Canée”
- Georgian: “ხანია”
- Georgian: “ხანიის ნომი”
- German: “Chania”
- Greek: “Chaniá”
- Greek: “Nomós Chaníon”
- Greek: “Νομός Χανιάς”
- Greek: “Νομός Χανίων”
- Greek: “Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων”
- Greek: “Χανιά”
- Ido: “Provinco Hania”
- Italian: “La Canea”
- Japanese: “ハニア県”
- Korean: “하니아 지구”
- Korean: “하니아현”
- Latin: “Cydonia”
- Limburgan: “Chania”
- Lithuanian: “Chanijos nomas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khania”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Periferieininga Khaniá”
- Norwegian: “Chania”
- Norwegian: “Khaniá”
- Polish: “Jednostka regionalna Chania”
- Portuguese: “Chania”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Cania”
- Romanian: “Unitatea regională Cania”
- Russian: “Ханья”
- Serbian: “Hanija”
- Serbian: “Ханија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kanija”
- Slovenian: “Regionalna enota Hania”
- Spanish: “La Canea”
- Spanish: “unidad periférica de La Canea”
- Spanish: “Unidad periférica de La Canea”
- Swedish: “Chania”
- Turkish: “Hanya ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Hanya”
- Ukrainian: “Ханья”
- Urdu: “خانیا”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khania”
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