Crete is the most populous and largest island in Greece. Similarly it is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Crete forms a considerable part of the cultural and economy heritage of Greece while preserving its own local cultural traits. The island was the centre of the first civilization in Europe, Minoan civilization. Crete spread in the southern site of the Aegean Sea, separating the Aegean from the Libyan Sea.
Crete has an elongated shape around 260 kilometers from east to west. It is 60 kilometers wide and 12 kilometers long. The island covers a land area of 8,336 square kilometers, with a coastline off 1,046 kilometers to the north. It broaches the Sea of Crete, in the west the Myrtoan Sea, to the south the Libyan Sea and the east the Karpathion Sea. The island spread about 160 kilometers south of the Greek mainland.
The island is extraordinarily mountainous, and its character is determined by a high mountain range spreading from east to west. It formed by three different mountainous groups. The White Mountains is highest mountain on the island with height about 2,456 meters. On the second place is the Idi Range about 2,452 meters high. Nest to them is the Dikti Mountains with height of 2,148 meters. It follows of Kedros around 1,777 meters high and Thripti 1,489 meters high.
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