Heraklion
Heraklion or Iraklio is the major city and capital of Crete, the largest of the Greek islands. Its archaeological museum holds the remains of the 4000-year-old Minoan civilization, which centred on the nearby palace of Knossos, with its Minotaur legend.Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Photo: Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0.
35°20′19″N 25°08′13″E / 35.3387436°N 25.1369119°E The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is a museum located in Heraklion on Crete.
Historical Museum of Crete
Photo: Lourakis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Historical Museum of Crete is a museum in Heraklion, Crete.
Saint Menus Cathedral
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The Agios Minas Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Heraklion, Greece, serving as the seat of the Archbishop of Crete.
Localities in the Area
Nea Alikarnassos
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nea Alikarnassos is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece.
Gazi
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gazi is a Western suburb of Heraklion and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit of Crete in Greece.
Heraklion
Latitude
35.3391° or 35° 20' 21" northLongitude
25.1333° or 25° 7' 60" eastPopulation
141,000Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)Open Location Code
8G7784QM+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 29438069OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
261745Wikidata ID
Q160544Heraklion Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Heraklion
- Albanian: Iraklion
- Albanian: Iraklioni
- Amharic: ሄራክልዮን
- Amharic: ኢራክልዮን
- Arabic: Heraklion
- Arabic: إراكليون، إراكليون
- Arabic: إيراكليو
- Arabic: كاندية
- Arabic: كانديه
- Arabic: هيراقليون
- Arabic: هيراكليون
- Armenian: Իրաքլիօ
- Armenian: Հերակլիոն
- Asturian: Heraclión
- Azerbaijani: Heraklion
- Azerbaijani: İraklion
- Bashkir: Ираклион
- Basque: Heraklion
- Belarusian: Іракліян
- Belarusian: Іракліён
- Bengali: হেরাক্লিওন
- Breton: Heraklion
- Bulgarian: Ираклио
- Bulgarian: Ираклион
- Bulgarian: Кандия
- Bulgarian: Хераклион
- Catalan: Càndia
- Catalan: Heraklion
- Catalan: Heràclion
- Catalan: Iràklio
- Catalan: Iràklion
- Cebuano: Irákleion
- Chechen: Ираклион
- Chinese: 伊喇期利奧
- Chinese: 伊拉克利翁
- Chinese: 干地亚
- Chinese: 甘地亞
- Corsican: Candia
- Corsican: Candìa
- Corsican: Iracliu
- Croatian: Heraklion
- Czech: Heraklio
- Czech: Heraklion
- Czech: Heráklion
- Czech: Hérakleion
- Czech: Iraklio
- Czech: Iraklion
- Czech: Iráklio
- Danish: Heraklion
- Danish: Iraklio
- Danish: Iraklion
- Dutch: Heraklion
- Dutch: Herákleion
- Dutch: Iraklion
- Egyptian Arabic: هيراكليون
- English: Heraclion
- English: Irakleion
- English: Iraklion
- Esperanto: Iraklio
- Estonian: Herakleion
- Estonian: Irákleio
- Finnish: Candia
- Finnish: Herakleion
- Finnish: Heraklion
- Finnish: Iraklio
- Finnish: Iraklion
- Finnish: Kandia
- French: Handax
- French: Heraklion
- French: Héraklion
- French: Iraklio
- French: Iráklio
- Georgian: ჰერაკლიონი
- German: Candie
- German: Heraklion
- German: Hieraklion
- German: Iraklio
- German: Iraklion
- German: Iráklio
- German: Iráklion
- German: Kandiye
- Greek: Ηράκλειο
- Greek: Ηράκλειο Κρήτης
- Greek: Χάνδακας
- Gujarati: હેરાક્લિયોન
- Hebrew: הירקליון
- Hebrew: הרקליון
- Hebrew: קנדיאה
- Hebrew: קנדיה
- Hindi: हेराक्लिओन
- Hungarian: Candia
- Hungarian: Hérakleion
- Hungarian: Iráklio
- Hungarian: Kandiye
- Hungarian: Megalokasztro
- Hungarian: Ηράκλειο
- Hungarian: Ηράκλειον
- Indonesian: Heraklion
- Indonesian: Iraklion
- Interlingue: Heraklion
- Irish: Heraklion
- Italian: Candia
- Italian: Eraklion
- Italian: Herakleion
- Italian: Heraklio
- Italian: Heraklion
- Italian: Iraclio
- Italian: Irakleio
- Italian: Iraklio
- Italian: Iraklion
- Italian: Iráklion
- Japanese: イラクリオ
- Japanese: イラクリオン
- Japanese: カンディア
- Japanese: ヘラクリオン
- Kannada: ಹೆರಕ್ಲಿಯೋನ್
- Kazakh: Ïraklïon
- Kazakh: Ираклион
- Kazakh: Ираклион қаласы
- Kazakh: ىيراكلىيون
- Korean: 이라클리오
- Korean: 이라클리온
- Korean: 칸디아
- Korean: 헤라클레이온
- Korean: 헤라클리온
- Kurdish: Herakliyon
- Latin: Candia
- Latin: Heracleum
- Latvian: Heraklija
- Latvian: Heraklion
- Latvian: Heraklione
- Latvian: Hēraklione
- Latvian: Iraklija
- Latvian: Iraklion
- Limburgan: Irakleio
- Lithuanian: Heraklionas
- Lithuanian: Iraklionas
- Lombard: Candia
- Lombard: Eracli
- Lombard: Heraklion
- Luxembourgish: Iraklio
- Macedonian: Ираклион
- Malay: Heraklion
- Marathi: हेराक्लायं
- Mongolian: Ираклион
- Northern Frisian: Iraklio
- Norwegian: Iraklio
- Norwegian: Iráklio
- Norwegian Bokmål: Candia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Herakleion
- Norwegian Bokmål: Heraklion
- Norwegian Bokmål: Iraklio
- Norwegian Bokmål: Iraklion
- Norwegian Bokmål: Iráklio
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Handaq
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Herakleion
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Heraklion
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Iraklio
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Iraklion
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Iráklio
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kandiye
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Khandak
- Ossetian: Ираклион
- Persian: هراکلیون
- Piemontese: Heraklion
- Polish: Candia
- Polish: Herakleon
- Polish: Heraklion
- Polish: Irakleio
- Polish: Iraklio
- Polish: Iraklion
- Polish: Kandia
- Portuguese: Candia
- Portuguese: Chandax
- Portuguese: Cândia
- Portuguese: Eráclio
- Portuguese: Heraclião
- Portuguese: Herakleion
- Portuguese: Heraklion
- Portuguese: Heráklion
- Portuguese: Irakleion
- Portuguese: Iraklion
- Portuguese: Iráclio
- Portuguese: Iráklio
- Portuguese: Iráklion
- Romanian: Heraklion
- Romanian: Irakleio
- Romanian: Irakleion
- Romanian: Iraklio
- Romanian: Iraklion
- Russian: Гераклион
- Russian: Ираклио
- Russian: Ираклион
- Russian: Мегало Кастро
- Scots: Heraklion
- Scottish Gaelic: Heraklion
- Serbian: Heraklion
- Serbian: Iraklion
- Serbian: Ираклио
- Serbian: Ираклион
- Serbian: Хераклион
- Serbo-Croatian: Heraklion
- Serbo-Croatian: Iraklion
- Sicilian: Iraklio
- Sicilian: Iraklion
- Silesian: Heraklion
- Sinhala: හෙරාක්ලියොන්
- Slovak: Irakleio
- Slovak: Iraklio
- Slovenian: Heraklion, Kreta
- Spanish: Chandax
- Spanish: Heraclion
- Spanish: Heraclión
- Spanish: Herakleion
- Spanish: Heraklion
- Spanish: Iraklio
- Spanish: Iraklion
- Swedish: Heraklio
- Swedish: Heraklion
- Swedish: Iraklion
- Tagalog: Heraklion
- Tamil: ஹெராக்ளியன்
- Telugu: హెరక్లియాన్
- Thai: Heraclion
- Thai: Heraklion
- Thai: อีราคลีออน
- Thai: ฮีราคลีออน
- Thai: เฮราคลิออน
- Turkish: Heraklion
- Turkish: Irakleio
- Turkish: Kandiya
- Turkish: Kandiye
- Turkish: İraklion
- Ukrainian: Іракліон
- Ukrainian: Геракліон
- Ukrainian: Кандія
- Urdu: ایراکلیون
- Urdu: کانڈیہ
- Uzbek: Iraklion
- Venetian: Candia
- Veps: Iraklion
- Vietnamese: Heraklion
- Volapük: Iraklio
- Waray (Philippines): Heraklion
- Welsh: Heraklion
- Western Armenian: Հերաքլիոն
- Western Frisian: Heraklion
- Western Panjabi: ایراکلیون
- Wu Chinese: 伊拉克利翁
- Yue Chinese: 伊喇期利奧
- Iraclion
- Khandax
- Megalokastro
- Megalokastron
- Ērakleion
- Κάντια
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Heraklion. Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.