Voukolies ( el, Βουκολιές, Δήμος Βουκολιών) is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Platanias Platanias (Greek: Πλατανιάς) is a village and municipality on the Greek island of Crete. It is located about west from the city of Chania and east of Kissamos, on Chania Bay. The seat of the municipality is the village Gerani. Platania ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of . It was part of the former

Kissamos Kissamos ( el, Κίσσαμος) is a town and a municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the Chania regional unit and of the former Kissamos Province which covers the northwest corner of the island. The town of Kissam ...

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

which covered the northwestern part of

Chania Prefecture Chania ( el, Περιφερειακή ενότητα Χανίων) is one of the four regional units of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania. Chania borders only one other regional unit: that ...

. Voukoulies is a large village with an important Saturday morning market. The municipal unit of Voukoulies extends from Tavronitis on the north coast to the foothills of the White Mountains (''

Lefka Ori Lefka Ori ( el, Λευκά Όρη, meaning 'White Mountains') or Madares ( from the Cretan Greek meaning 'without coverage, bald, bare of any vegetation for high mountain areas') is a mountain range located in Western Crete, in the Chania prefect ...

''). The seat of the municipality was Voukolies itself. The municipal unit also includes Tavronitis, Neriana, Kakopetros, Polemarchi, Neo Chorio, Anoskeli and

Palea Roumata Palea may refer to: * Palea (botany), part of the flower structure in some plants * ''Palea'' (turtle), a genus of turtles in the family Trionychidae * San Antonio de Palé, a town in Equatorial Guinea * Palea (literature), old Russian work of a ...

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{{Platanias div Populated places in Chania (regional unit)

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