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.Photo: Velela, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Notable Places in the Area
Paleochora
- Type: Town with 2,370 residents
- Description: village in Chania, Greece
- Postal code: 73001
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kantanos-Selino, Chania, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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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=townGeoNames ID
256131Wikidata ID
Q2047708Paleochora Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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
- English: Palaiochora
- Finnish: Palaiochora
- Finnish: Palaioxora
- Finnish: Palaióchora
- Finnish: Paleochora
- Finnish: Paleohora
- Finnish: Paleóhora
- French: Paleochora
- French: Paleohora
- French: Paleóchora
- German: Palaiochora
- German: Paleochora
- German: Paleochóra
- Greek: Palaióchora
- Greek: Παλαιοχώρα Χανίων
- Greek: Παλαιόχωρα
- Italian: Paleochora
- Japanese: パレオコラ
- Japanese: パレオホラ
- Norwegian: Paleokhora
- Norwegian Bokmål: Paleochora
- Norwegian Bokmål: Paleokhora
- Norwegian Bokmål: Paleokhóra
- Norwegian Bokmål: Paleókhora
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Paleokhóra
- Portuguese: Palaiochora
- Russian: Палеохора
- Russian: Палиохора
- Swedish: Paleochora
- Swedish: Paleohora
- Palaiokhóra
- Paleiochora
- Selino Kasteli
- Sélino Kastélli
Other Places Named Paleochora
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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 Paleochora. Photo: Markoz, CC0.