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Places worth the detour in Crete Region

Detourmap lists 105 places in Crete Region, Greece, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Knossos. 77 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature55 Archaeological50
Places
105
Oldest
Knossos 6999 BC
Little known
77 of 105
Share of Greece
12%

Crete Region 105

All 105, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Crete Region?

Knossos, 70th century BC. Ancient Minoan through Roman administrative center and city. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Crete Region?

105: 55 nature & landscapes and 50 archaeological & historic sites. 77 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Crete Region?

Knossos, dated to 6999 BC. 4 of the 105 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Crete Region here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Crete Region if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Crete Region is a first-level division of Greece, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.