List of islands of Greece

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This is a list of islands of Greece. The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000[1] islands and islets that belong to Greece. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 inhabitants.

The largest Greek island by area is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea. The second largest island is Euboea, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the central Greece periphery. After the third and fourth largest Greek Islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.

The Greek islands are traditionally grouped into the following clusters: The Argo-Saronic Islands in the Saronic gulf near Athens, the Cyclades, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea, the North Aegean islands, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey, the Dodecanese, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey, the Sporades, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea, and the Ionian Islands, located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea (one of these islands, Kythira, is off the southern tip of the mainland, but still considered part of the Ionian Islands).

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[edit] Islands of Greece by size

The following are the largest Greek islands listed by surface area. The table includes all islands of over 100 square miles.

Island Area
(sq. miles)		 (km²)
1 Crete 3219 8336
2 Euboea 1423 3685
3 Lesbos 630 1633
4 Rhodes 541 1401
5 Kefalonia 350 906.5
6 Khíos 325 842.3
7 Corfu 229 592.9
8 Lemnos 184 477.6
9 Samos 184 477.4
10 Naxos 166 429.8
11 Zakynthos 157 406
12 Thassos 147 380.1
13 Andros 147 380.0
14 Lefkada 137 355.9
15 Karpathos 125 324.8
16 Kos 112 290.3
17 Kythira 108 279.6

[edit] Saronic islands

Main article: Saronic Islands

[edit] The Northern Sporades

Main article: Sporades

[edit] Main islands

[edit] Other islands and islets

[edit] The Ionian islands

Main article: Ionian Islands

[edit] The Dodecanese islands

Main article: Dodecanese
164 total islands of which 26 are inhabited.

[edit] Aegean islands

Main article: Aegean islands
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[edit] Islands of the central Aegean sea

[edit] Islands in the Thracian Sea

[edit] The Cyclades

Main article: Cyclades
Cyclades comprise around 220 islands

[edit] Crete and surrounding islands

Crete seen from the beach of the little island Chrissi

[edit] Euboea and surrounding islands

[edit] Islets close to mainland

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Greek National Tourism organisation Greek Islands

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