List of islands of Greece

The island groups of the Aegean Sea. The Ionian Sea and most of its islands are not pictured.

Greece has an extremely large number of islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200^[1] to 6,000,^[2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166^[3] and 227.^[2]

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 region. 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 region, 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.

Islands of Greece by size

The following are the largest Greek islands listed by surface area. The table includes all islands of over 37 square miles (96 km²).

Saronic Islands

Inhabited islands

Uninhabited islands

This list includes islands that may have been inhabited in the past but are now uninhabited:

Northern Sporades

Main islands

Other islands and islets

Ionian Islands

Ionian Islands

Main seven

Others

Dodecanese Islands

164 total islands of which 26 are inhabited.

Main 12 islands

Minor islands

Aegean Islands

Of the Aegean Sea

• Agios Efstratios
• Chios
• Fournoi Korseon
  • Agios Minas
  • Thymaina
• Ikaria
• Lesbos
• Lemnos
• Oinousses
  • Pasas
• Psara
  • Antipsara
• Samos
  • Samiopoula

Of the Thracian Sea

• Samothraki
• Thasos

The Cyclades

Cyclades comprise around 220 islands

Main islands

Other islands and islets

Cretan islands

This is a list of islands, islets, and rocks that surround the island of Crete.

Of the Aegean Sea

Afendis Christos Agia Varvara (island) Agioi Apostoloi Agioi Pandes Agioi Theodoroi Agios Nikolaos Anavatis Antimilos Arnaouti Aspros Volakas Christos Dangas Crete Daskaleia Dia Diapori Dionysades Dragonada Elasa Ftena Trachylia Gianysada Glaronisi Gramvousa, Agria Gramvousa, Imeri Grandes Kalydon (Spinalonga) Karavi Karga Katergo

Kavallos Kefali Kolokythas Koursaroi Kyriamadi Lazaretta Leon Mavros Mavros Volakas Megatzedes Mochlos Nikolos Palaiosouda Paximada Paximadaki Peristeri Peristerovrachoi Petalida Petalouda Pontikaki Pontikonisi Praso Kissamou Prosfora Pseira Sideros Souda Valenti Vryonisi

The islet of Leon, on the left, next to the larger islet of Souda, within Souda bay Spinalonga (Kalydon) The islet of Pontikonisi (mouse island) which has the shape of a mouse.

Of the Libyan Sea

Agia Eirini Agriomandra Ammoudi tous Volakous Artemis Chrysi Elafonisi Fotia Gaidouronisi Gavdopoula Gavdos Koufonisi (Lefki) Loutro Makroulo Marmaro

Megalonisi Mikronisi Papadoplaka Paximadia Prasonisi, Gavdou Prasonisi, Rethymnou Psarocharako Psyllos Schistonisi Strongyli Thetis Trachilos Trafos Treis Volakous

The islet of Trafos in the Libyan Sea

Euboea and surrounding islands

Islets close to mainland

Lake and river islands

Lagoon islands

See also

• List of Aegean Islands
• List of islands
• List of islands in the Mediterranean

Notes

1. ↑ The Greek claim is disputed by Turkey (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Turkey : "The Kardak Dispute" retrieved 30 November 2012).

References

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Greek Islands.

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