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 Peloponnese Peninsula and part of the Attica periphery, but still considered part of the Ionian Islands, mainly because of historical reasons). There are also many islands, islets and rocks that surround the coast of Crete.
[edit] Islands of Greece by size
The following are the largest Greek islands listed by surface area. The table includes all islands of over 75 square miles (190 km2).
[edit] Saronic Islands
[edit] Inhabited islands
[edit] Uninhabited islands
This list includes islands that may have been inhabited in the past but are now uninhabited:
[edit] The Northern Sporades
[edit] Main islands
[edit] Other islands and islets
[edit] The Ionian Islands
Main article:
Ionian Islands[edit] The Dodecanese Islands
- 164 total islands of which 26 are inhabited.
[edit] Aegean Islands
Main article:
Aegean islands[edit] Of the Aegean Sea
[edit] The Cyclades
- Cyclades comprise around 220 islands
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[edit] Main islands
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[edit] Other islands and islets
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[edit] Cretan islands
This is a list of islands, islets, and rocks that surround the island of Crete.
[edit] Of the Aegean Sea
The islet of Leon, on the left, next to the larger islet of Souda, within Souda bay
The islet of Trafos in the Libyan Sea.
[edit] Euboea and surrounding islands
[edit] Islets close to mainland
[edit] See also
[edit] References
West bank of Spinalonga
The islet of Pontikonisi (mouse island) which has the shape of a mouse.
