It is usually the name of the greatest or more important town or village of a Greek island.

Plato uses chora in a sense close to space, or place in space; the milieu in which Forms materialise.

Chora (Greek χωρα) can mean one of several things:

Chora (woreda), a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia

In ancient Greek, the term often takes on the general meaning of the countryside surrounding the polis.

Chora District in the Uruzgan province of Afghanistan.

The Chora Church, a Byzantine church in İstanbul.

Chora (moth), a genus of nolid moths.

Chora (software), a web-based CVS repository viewer. Part of the Horde framework.