Crete google map. Greece map

Greece or the Hellenic Republic is a state located on the Balkan Peninsula and numerous islands. Satellite map of Greece shows that the country has land borders with Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania and Turkey. The country is washed by the Aegean, Ionian, Thracian, Cretan, Libyan and Mediterranean seas. The area of ​​the country is 131,957 sq. km.

Greece is rightfully considered the cradle of Western civilization, the country where theater, philosophy, physics and mathematics, democracy, the cult of the body and much more originated. Today Greece is an industrial-agrarian country, the economy of which is based on the services sector, tourism, industry and agriculture.

The largest cities in Greece are Athens (capital), Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion and Larissa. Since 2001, the country has been a member of the eurozone, and the euro is used on its territory.

Fun fact: Greeks never call their country Greece. For them, its name is Hellas.

Ionian Islands (Zakynthos Island)

A Brief History of Greece

2100-1100 BC. - Mycenaean civilization

1200-800 biennium BC. - dark ages of Greece

776-323 BC. - Ancient Greece, the flourishing of policies. The period before the death of Alexander the Great

323-146 biennium BC NS. - Hellenistic Greece

146 BC NS. -330 - Roman Greece

330-1453 biennium - Byzantine Greece

1453-1821 - as part of the Ottoman Empire

The volcanic island of Santorini

1821 - independence from the Ottoman Caliphate

1919-1922 - Greco-Turkish War and the defeat of Greece

1946 - civil war

1967-1975 - the power of the "black colonels" - the military junta

1981 - Greece in the EU.

2008-2010 - riots and strikes

Corinth canal

Sights of greece

On a detailed map of Greece from a satellite, you can see the many attractions of this country: the Peloponnese peninsula, Crete, Lesvos, Corfu and Cyprus, Mount Olympus (2917 m), the Nestos River and the Corinth Canal.

Meteora monasteries

Among the main attractions of Greece, left over from the ancient period, it is worth highlighting the Acropolis, the Theater of Dionysus and the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, the ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete, the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Greece has preserved numerous places of pilgrimage for Christians - the monastery on Mount Athos and the monasteries in Meteora.

Greece is especially popular as a beach tourism destination. The islands of Zakynthos, Rhodes, Santorini, Paros and Crete are very popular.

Gregoriates Monastery, New Athos

Tourist notes

Gulrypsh - a summer cottage for celebrities

There is an urban-type settlement Gulrypsh on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia, the appearance of which is closely connected with the name of the Russian philanthropist Nikolai Nikolaevich Smetsky. In 1989, due to the illness of his wife, they needed to change the climate. Case decided the matter.

On the page there is an interactive map of Heraklion in Russian from the satellite. More info on + weather. Below are satellite images and real-time Google Maps search, photo of the city and area of ​​Crete in Greece, coordinates

Satellite map of Heraklion - Greece

We observe on the satellite map of Iraklion exactly how the buildings on Spanaki street are located. Viewing the scheme of the territory of the district, highways and highways, squares and banks, stations and train stations, search for an address on aerial photographs. Nearby settlements - Rethymno.

The online satellite map of Heraklion presented here contains images of buildings and photos of houses from space. You can find out where is located in the region st. Krapis, what to see in the surroundings. At the moment, using the search for the Google Maps service, you will find the desired address in the city and its view from space. We advise you to change the scale of the scheme +/- and move the center of the image to the desired side.

Coordinates - 35.337,25.145

Squares and shops, roads and borders, buildings and houses, view of Davaki street. On the page, detailed information and photos of all the objects in the region, in order to show in real time the necessary house on the map of the city and region of Crete in Greece (Greece)

Detailed satellite map of Heraklion (hybrid) and the area provided by Google Maps.

What are Google Maps? It is a service that consists of several applications, provided free of charge, and includes a mapping site Google Maps and a program for getting directions (Google Transit). Google maps offer satellite views for many cities in the world and include a detailed map of the location of streets, houses, routes for travel by public transport or cars, a guide to various objects, and more.

Features of work

Google Maps is displayed in two variations:

• an ordinary traditional card (analogous to Mercator cards)

• and satellite images (not online, but taken a certain time ago).

The scale of the maps is also based on the Mercator projection, that is, it is constant and changes from the poles to the equator in the direction of decreasing.

Another separate project of the corporation is closely connected with Google Maps - Google Planet, corresponding to the globe, on which the areas of the Earth's poles are clearly visible.

For which locations are satellite imagery offered? Not for everyone, but only for the big cities of Russia, England, America, Canada and others.

Not all governments have approved this placement and use of images. That is why many objects on the maps are shaded. Such "classified" objects include, for example, the White House or the Capitol.

Different locations on satellite images are shown in different resolutions - the less populated the area, the less detailed it is. Also, some places in the pictures may be hidden due to the shadow of the clouds.

Google Maps online

• switch to satellite mode- lower left corner;
• zoom in / out- lower right corner.

As soon as the company introduced a new service, a wave of interest in satellite imagery swept around the world.

The creation of sites began, on which satellite images of interesting places, unusual architectural attractions, stadiums, and anthropogenic formations began to be placed in free access.

Since 2008, the US Meteorological Service has been using Google Maps to prepare its forecasts.

It should be noted that not all images were taken from the satellite - most of the images were obtained thanks to aerial photography from a height of 300 meters.

Online Google Maps uses JavaScript extensively. When the user moves around the map by dragging it, new areas are loaded from the server and displayed on the page.

If the user is looking for specific objects, then the search result is inserted in the sidebar, and the page itself does not require reloading. The location on the map is displayed dynamically through a red marker icon.

• In 2006 the first version for mobile phones appeared, and in 2007 the second version appeared. A service similar to GPS is used to determine the location of the phone.

• In 2008 year Google Maps could be used for Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, BlackBury, Java (from 2+), IOS (Apple), Palm OS (Centro +).

• In 2011 the corporation announced that it provides mapping services to more than 150 million customers.

To enable third-party site owners to use Maps, Google announced a free Application Programming Interface (API) Maps service in 2005.

The map can be placed on any site using this technology for software interaction. Today there are more than 350 thousand such sites around the world.