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Heraklion Municipality

municipality of Crete region, Greece
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Summary

Heraklion Municipality is a municipality of Greece[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Heraklion Regional Unit[3]
  • Country: Greece[4]
  • Capital: Heraklion[5]
  • Shares border with: Archanes-Asterousia Municipality[6], Gortyn Municipality[7], Malevizi Municipality[8], Hersonissos Municipality[9]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Temenos Municipal Unit[10], Gorgolainis Municipal Unit[11], Iraklio Municipal Unit[12], Nea Alikarnassos Municipal Unit[13], Paliani Municipal Unit[14]
  • Headquarters location: Heraklion[15]
  • Twinned administrative body: Limassol Municipality[16]
  • Commons category: Heraklion Municipality[17]
  • Inception: August 6, 1924[18]
  • Official website: https://www.heraklion.gr/[19]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Heraklion Municipality[20]
  • Population: 173,993[21], 154,604[22], 146,750[23]
  • Different from: Heraklion Municipality[24]
  • Category for the view of the item: Category:Views of Heraklion[25]

Why It Matters

Heraklion Municipality is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Greece

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . limassolmunicipal.com.cy. Retrieved . limassolmunicipal.com.cy. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . statistics.gr. statistics.gr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . statistics.gr. statistics.gr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23h ago · Fotis A. · 2026-10-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Heraklion Regional Unit
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Temenos Municipal Unit, Gorgolainis Municipal Unit, Iraklio Municipal Unit +2
    Headquarters location → Heraklion
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 35.33978, 'lon': 25.13404}
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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