Georgioupolis is a seaside village in the prefecture of Chania, which is 40 km from the city of Chania and 20 km from Rethymnon. It owes its name to Prince George of Greece, who was High Commissioner for the Autonomous Cretan State. According to the 2011 census, Georgioupolis has 455 residents.

It is built on the west end of a large sandy beach with sand dunes, in a plain of abundant water, between the mouths of the Almyros Rivers, which forms a lake, and a Pass. Georgioupolis has become a tourist resort and has a small port at the mouth of the Almyros estuary.

Lake Kournas is the only natural freshwater lake in Crete. It’s referred in antiquity by Stefanos the Byzantine by the name of Korissia and is believed to have been an ancient temple dedicated to Korissia Athena and seems to have been dedicated to Horse or Koos. These names are said to have given the older name Hippocoron, later paraphrased as Apokoronas.

The change of the name of Lake Korissia occurs during the Arab period in Crete, but the origin of the name is sometimes attributed to an Arabic word meaning lake or bath and sometimes as a paraphrase of the Greek word krounos.