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).
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.
Saronic islands
- Aegina
- Hydra
- Poros
- Spetses
- Angistri
- Salamina
- Psyttalia
- Leros Salaminos
- Revythoussa
- Moni Aiginas
- Dokos
- Spetsopoula
- Romvi
- Plateia
- Psili
- Agios Georgios
- Patroklou
- Fleves
- Agios Georgios Salaminos
- Ypsili Diaporion
- Ypsili Argolidos
- Agios Thomas Diaporion
- Agios Ioannis Diaporion
- Plateia Aiginis
- Laousses Islets
- Kyra Aiginis
- Trikeri Hydras
- Alexandros Hydras
- Stavronisi Hydras
- Velopoula
- Falkonera
The Northern Sporades
Main islands
Other islands and islets
The Ionian islands
Main article:
Ionian Islands The Dodecanese islands
- 164 total islands of which 26 are inhabited.
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- Leipsoi
- Leros
- Levitha
- Makronisi Leipson
- Makronissi Kasou
- Makry Aspronisi Leipson
- Makry Halkis
- Marmaras
- Mavra Levithas
- Megalo Aspronisi Leipson
- Megalo Glaronisi
- Megalo Sofrano
- Mesonisi Seirinas
- Mikro Glaronisi
- Mikro Sofrano
- Nero
- Nimos
- Nisyros
- Paheia Nisyrou
- Patmos
- Pergoussa
- Piganoussa
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Aegean islands
Main article:
Aegean islands Islands of the central Aegean sea
The Cyclades
- Cyclades comprise around 220 islands
Crete and surrounding islands
Crete seen from the
beach of the little island Chrissi
- Chrissi
- Crete
- Dia
- Gavdos
- Gavdopoula
- Paximadhia Mesaras
- Agioi Theodoroi Chanion
- Theodoropoula
- Agria Gramvousa
- Imeri Gramvousa
- Valenti Falasarnon
- Elafonisos Kritis
- Koufonisi (Lefki)
- Mikronisi Chrysis
- Elasa
- Gianisadha
- Dragonadha
- Paximadha
- Kalydon (Spinalonga)
- Petalidi Dia
Euboea and surrounding islands
- Euboea
- Petalioi
- Megalos Petalios
- Mandilou
- Hersonisi
- Lithari
- Manolia
Islets close to mainland
- Trikeri (Thessalia)
- Antitrikeri (Thessalia)
- Alatas Trikeriou
- Proti (Peloponnisos)
- Sapientza (Peloponnisos)
- Schiza (Peloponnisos)
- Ammouliani (Halkidiki)
- Kelifos (Halkidiki)
- Kefalonia (islet)*
See also
References
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