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The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,0001 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 and most populous 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 at least 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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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
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The Dodecanese islands
- 164 total islands of which 26 are inhabited.
Aegean islands
Islands of the central Aegean sea
Islands in the Thracian Sea
The Cyclades
- Cyclades comprise around 220 islands
Crete and surrounding islands
- 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
- Santorini/Thera
Euboea and surrounding islands
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
- ^ The Greek National Tourism organisation Greek Islands
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