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.Photo: Simaoarinto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Chania
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Chora Sfakion is a harbour village in the southwest of Crete.
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Agia Roumeli is a coastal village in southwestern Crete near the southern end of the Samaria Gorge.
Drapanias
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Drapanias is a small village in Chania regional unit in northwestern Crete.
Chania
- Type: regional unit of Greece with 148,000 residents
- Description: regional unit of Crete, Greece
- Category: prefecture of Greece
- Location: Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of centre
35.3333° or 35° 20' northLongitude of centre
24° eastPopulation
148,000Elevation
1,951 metres (6,401 feet)GeoNames ID
260096Wikidata ID
Q210487Chania Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Khania
- Arabic: خانية
- Arabic: مقاطعة خانية
- Asturian: Unidá periférica de La Canea
- Basque: Kanea (unitate erregionala)
- Basque: Kanea
- Bulgarian: Ханя
- Catalan: Khanià
- Catalan: Prefectura de Khanià
- Catalan: Unitat perifèrica de Khanià
- Catalan: unitat perifèrica de Khanià
- Cebuano: Nomós Chaniás
- Chinese: 哈尼亚专区
- Chinese: 哈尼亚州
- Chinese: 哈尼亞專區
- Chinese: 干尼亚州
- Croatian: Prefektura Hania
- Croatian: Prefektura Kania
- Croatian: Prefektura Khania
- Czech: Chania
- Danish: Chania
- Dutch: Chania
- English: Chania Regional Unit
- English: Chania regional unit
- Esperanto: Ĥanio
- Estonian: Chaniá piirkonnaüksus
- Finnish: Hanian prefektuuri
- French: La Canée
- French: Nome de la Canée
- Georgian: ხანია
- German: Chania
- German: GR-94
- Greek: Chaniá
- Greek: Nomós Chaníon
- Greek: Νομός Χανίων
- Greek: Νομός Χανιάς
- Greek: Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων
- Greek: Χανιά
- Italian: La Canea
- Italian: Prefettura della Canea
- Italian: Prefettura di Chania
- Italian: Unità periferica di La Canea
- Japanese: ハニア県
- Korean: 하니아 현
- Korean: 하니아현
- Latin: Cydonia
- Limburgan: Chania
- Lithuanian: Chanijos nomas
- Norwegian: Chania
- Norwegian: Khaniá
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chania
- Norwegian Bokmål: Khania
- Norwegian Bokmål: Khania prefektur
- Norwegian Bokmål: Khaniá
- Norwegian Bokmål: Khaniá prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chania prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Khania prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Khaniá periferieining
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Khaniá prefektur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Periferieininga Khaniá
- Polish: Jednostka regionalna Chania
- Portuguese: Chania
- Portuguese: Chania (prefeitura)
- Portuguese: Chania (unidade periférica)
- Portuguese: Chania (unidade regional)
- Portuguese: Hania (prefeitura)
- Portuguese: Hania (unidade regional)
- Romanian: Prefectura Cania
- Russian: Ханья
- Serbian: Hanija
- Serbian: Префектура Канија
- Serbian: Префектура Ханија
- Serbian: Ханија
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Kanija
- Slovenian: GR-94
- Slovenian: Regionalna enota Hania
- Spanish: Chania
- Spanish: Chaniá
- Spanish: Kanea
- Spanish: Kania
- Spanish: La Canea
- Spanish: Perifereiakí Enótita Chaníon
- Spanish: Prefectura de Chania
- Spanish: Prefectura de La Canea
- Spanish: Prefectura de la canea
- Spanish: Unidad Regional de Chania
- Spanish: Unidad Regional de La Canea
- Spanish: Unidad periferica de La Canea
- Spanish: Unidad periférica de La Canea
- Spanish: unidad periférica de Chania
- Spanish: unidad periférica de La Canea
- Spanish: Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων
- Swedish: Chania
- Turkish: Hanya
- Ukrainian: Ханья
- Urdu: خانیا
- Waray (Philippines): Khania
- Chaníon
- Nomos Chanias
- Nomós Khaníon
- ხანიის ნომი
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Chania. Photo: Sergio Alvarez, CC BY-SA 2.0.