Sfakia Municipality
Sign in to savethumb|Sunset in Sfakia. thumb|Traditional dancers at "Sfakian Liberation Festival".
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Sfakia
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Σφακιά
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Crete Sfakia4 tango7174.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- Sfakia landscape around Hora Sfakion
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Sfakion.png
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Crete
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Chania
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 2002
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 467.6
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 73011
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΧΝ
- Greek Dimos.mayor
- Ioannis Zervos
- Greek Dimos.since
- 2023
- Greek Dimos.seat
- Hora Sfakion
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Greece
- Official name
- Δήμος Σφακίων
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Chania Regional Unit
- Capital
- Hora Sfakion
- Population
- 2923
- Area
- 467.589
- Elevation
- 10
- Shares border with
- Apokoronas Municipality
- Headquarters
- Hora Sfakion
- Official website
- sfakia.gov.gr/el
- Image
- Crete HoraSfakion2 tango7174.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2825
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- postal code
- 73011
- inception
- 1997-12-04
- native label
- Δήμος Σφακίων
- Commons category
- Sfakia
- topic's main category
- Category:Sfakia
- located in/on physical feature
- Crete
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Resistance
- History
- Province
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Sunset in Sfakia. thumb|Traditional dancers at "Sfakian Liberation Festival".
Sfakiá () is a mountainous area in the southwestern part of the island of Crete, in the Chania regional unit. It is considered to be one of the few places in Greece that have never been fully occupied by foreign powers. With a 2021 census population of 2,002 inhabitants living on a land area of , Sfakia is one of the largest and least densely populated municipalities on the island of Crete. The etymology of its name is disputed. According to the prevailing theory, it relates to its rugged terrain, deriving from the ancient Greek word σφαξ, meaning land chasm or gorge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sfakia Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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