Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

has many

islands An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227. The largest Greek island by area is

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

, located at the southern edge of the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek language, Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish language, Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It ...

. The second largest island is

Euboea Evia (, ; el, Εύβοια ; grc, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only at its narrowest poin ...

or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide

Euripus Strait The Euripus Strait ( el, Εύριπος ) is a narrow channel of water separating the Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea from Boeotia in mainland Greece. The strait's principal port is Chalcis on Euboea, located at the strait's narrowest poi ...

, and is administered as part of the

Central Greece Continental Greece ( el, Στερεά Ελλάδα, Stereá Elláda; formerly , ''Chérsos Ellás''), colloquially known as Roúmeli (Ρούμελη), is a traditional geographic region of Greece. In English, the area is usually called Central ...

region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands,

Lesbos Lesbos or Lesvos ( el, Λέσβος, Lésvos ) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of with approximately of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece. It is separated from Anatolia, Asia Minor ...

and

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the So ...

, 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 The Saronic Islands or Argo-Saronic Islands is an archipelago in Greece, named after the Saronic Gulf in which they are located, just off the Greek mainland. The main inhabited islands of this group are Salamis, Aegina, Agistri, and Poros. The i ...

in the Saronic Gulf near

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

; the

Cyclades The Cyclades (; el, Κυκλάδες, ) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The nam ...

, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea; the

North Aegean islands The North Aegean islands are a number of disconnected islands in the north Aegean Sea, also known as the Northeastern Aegean islands, belonging mostly to Greece and a few of them to Turkey. The islands do not form a physical chain or group, but ...

, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey; the

Dodecanese The Dodecanese (, ; el, Δωδεκάνησα, ''Dodekánisa'' , ) are a group of 15 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited. ...

, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey; the

Sporades The (Northern) Sporades (; el, Βόρειες Σποράδες, ) are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea,"Skyros - Britannica Concise" (description), Britannica Concise, 2006, webpageEB-Skyrosnotes " ...

, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea; and the Ionian Islands, chiefly located to the west of the mainland in the

Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea ( el, Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, ''Iónio Pélagos'' ; it, Mar Ionio ; al, Deti Jon ) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including C ...

. Crete with its surrounding islets and Euboea are traditionally excluded from this grouping. This article excludes the

Peloponnese The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic regions of Greece, geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmu ...

, which has technically been an island since the construction of the

Corinth Canal The Corinth Canal ( el, Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, translit=Dhioryga tis Korinthou) is an artificial canal in Greece, that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the ...

in 1893, but is rarely considered to be an island due to its artificial origins.

Islands of Greece by size

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

Islands of Greece by population

Islands of the Aegean Sea

Argo-Saronic Islands

Aerial of Hydra island, Greece (43958918185)

This list includes Argo-Saronic islands, which are located in the

Saronic Gulf The Saronic Gulf (Greek: Σαρωνικός κόλπος, ''Saronikós kólpos'') or Gulf of Aegina in Greece is formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea. It defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Co ...

. The largest Argo-Saronic island is Salamis. The main islands are in bold. Uninhabited islands are indicated, including those that may have been inhabited in the past: *

Aegina Aegina (; el, Αίγινα, ''Aígina'' ; grc, Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina (mythology), Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born ...

(), * Agios Georgios (uninhabited), * Agios Georgios Salaminos (St. George's Island, uninhabited), Google Maps * Agios Ioannis Diaporion (uninhabited) * Agios Thomas Diaporion (uninhabited), *

Agistri Agistri, also Angistri or Agkistri (Greek: Αγκίστρι , English: "fishing hook"), is a small populated island and municipality in the Saronic Gulf in the Islands regional unit, Greece. Settlements There are only three settlements on Agis ...

(), * Alexandros Hydras, *

Atalanti Island Atalanti ( el, Αταλάντη) or Atalantonisi (Αταλαντονήσι) or Talandonísi (Ταλαντονήσι) is a small uninhabited island in the North Euboean Gulf, about 600 m off the coast near the town Atalanti, Phthiotis, Greece. Th ...

, * Dia (uninhabited) *

Dokos Dokos ( el, Δοκός) is a small Greek island of the Argo-Saronic Gulf, adjacent to Hydra, and separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait called, on some maps, "the Hydra Gulf." It is part of the municipality of Ýdra (Hydra) in Isla ...

(), *

Falkonera Falkonera ( el, Φαλκονέρα) or Gerakoulia (Γερακούλια), anciently known as Hierakia (Ἱεράκια), is a small uninhabited Greek island in the southwestern Aegean Sea, between the island of Milos and the Peloponnese. Although ...

(uninhabited), * Fleves (uninhabited), * Hydra (), * Katramoniso (Nisís Idhroúsa, uninhabited), * Kyra Aiginis (Nisída Kyrá) (uninhabited), * Laousses Islets (Nísoi Laoúses, uninhabited), * Leros Salaminos (uninhabited), * Modi Porou (uninhabited), * Moni Aiginas (uninhabited), *

Patroklos In Greek mythology, Patroclus, Greek Patroklos, was Achilles’ best friend and, according to some, his lover. Due to the wide fame of Homer's work, it was used as a male first name throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Patroclus may als ...

(uninhabited), * Pera Island ( Arta), * Platia (uninhabited), * Platia Aeginis (uninhabited), *

Poros Poros ( el, Πόρος) is a small Greece, Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south from the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas, Troizina, Galatas on ...

(), * Psili (uninhabited) *

Psyttaleia Psyttaleia ( el, Ψυττάλεια) is an unpopulated and uninhabited island in the Saronic Gulf between the harbor of Piraeus and the Kynosoura peninsula on Salamis Island, Greece. It covers an area of 0.375 square kilometers. The island hous ...

(uninhabited), * Revythousa (uninhabited), * Romvi (Nisida Romvi) (uninhabited), * Salamis (), *

Spetses Spetses ( el, Σπέτσες, grc, Πιτυούσσα "Pityussa", Arvanitika: Πετσε̱) is an upscale affluent island in Attica, Greece. It is included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolis ...

(), *

Spetsopoula Spetsopoula ( el, Σπετσοπούλα) is an island situated to the southeast of Spetses, which is one of the Saronic Islands, in the region of Attica and the Aegean Sea. It is located at about from Athens. Its area is about 2 Km2. According t ...

(uninhabited), * Stavronisi Hydras (uninhabited), * Trikeri Hydras (uninhabited), *

Velopoula Velopoula (Greek: Βελοπούλα) is an island situated to the southeast of Spetses, which is one of the Saronic Islands, in the Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greek ...

(Nisída Velopoúla) (uninhabited), * Ypsili Diaporion (uninhabited) * Ypsili Argolidos (uninhabited)

Cretan islands

The two lists below show the islands, islets, and rocks that surround the island of Crete that are in the Aegean Sea or

Libyan Sea The Libyan Sea (Greek , Latin ''Libycum Mare'', Arabic البحر الليبي) is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the African coast of ancient ''Libya'', i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now eastern Libya and ...

Cretan islands of the Aegean Sea

20090620 Spinalogka Elounta panoramic view from the mountain

* Afendis Christos, * Agia Varvara, * Agioi Apostoloi, * Agioi Pandes, *

Agioi Theodoroi Agioi Theodoroi ( el, Άγιοι Θεόδωροι) is a town and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Loutraki-Perachora-Agioi Theodoroi, of which it is a ...

, * Agios Nikolaos, * Agriomandra, *

Anavatis Kavaloi ( el, Καβάλοι), is a group of three uninhabited Greek islets, close to the coast of Lasithi, eastern Crete. The close group comprises the islets Anavatis (Αναβάτης "rider"), Kavallos (Καβάλλος), and Kefali (Κεφ� ...

, *

Arnaouti Arnaouti ( el, Αρναούτη) is an islet on the northern coast of Crete in the Aegean Sea. It is just south of the island of Gramvousa, Imeri Gramvousa and is located between Imeri Gramvousa and Valenti rock. Administratively, it is located w ...

, *

Avgo Avgo ( el, Αυγό, "egg"), is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, north of the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Neapoli municipality of Lasithi. The islet has also been the target of naval bombardment dr ...

(uninhabited islet), *

, * Daskaleia (uninhabited islet), * Dia (Zeus, uninhabited), *

Diapori Diapori ( el, Διαπόρι) is an island that almost touches the coast of Crete, near Geropotamos, in Rethymno regional unit.

, *

Dionysades The Dionysades ( el, Διονυσάδες, also Γιανυσάδες - ''Gianysades'') is a small, northward-trending archipelago off the north coast of the island of Crete, mid-way between the Cape Sidero lighthouse to the southeast (from whi ...

(group of islands), **

Gianysada The Dionysades ( el, Διονυσάδες, also Γιανυσάδες - ''Gianysades'') is a small, northward-trending archipelago off the north coast of the island of Crete, mid-way between the Cape Sidero lighthouse to the southeast (from whi ...

, ** Dragonada, **

Paximada The Dionysades ( el, Διονυσάδες, also Γιανυσάδες - ''Gianysades'') is a small, northward-trending archipelago off the north coast of the island of Crete, mid-way between the Cape Sidero lighthouse to the southeast (from whi ...

, ** Paximadaki, *

Elasa Elasa ( el, Ελάσα) is an island that can be found northeast of Crete in the Aegean Sea, about from the palm tree forest of Vai. It is rocky and uninhabited covering . Its highest point is above sea level. Administratively it comes within t ...

, *

Ftena Trachylia Ftena Trachylia ( el, Φτενά Τραχύλια, "thin and rough or uneven"), also known as Pinnacle Rocks ( el, Πίνακλ), are a group of uninhabited Greek islets/rocks, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administrativ ...

, * Glaronisi, *

Gramvoussa Gramvousa also Grampousa ( el, Γραμβούσα or Γραμπούσα, further names include ''Akra'', ''Cavo Buso'', ''Cavo Bouza'', ''Garabusa'' and ''Grabusa'') refers to two small uninhabited islands off the coast of a peninsula also known ...

, ** Agria Gramvousa, ** Imeri Gramvousa, * Grandes (group of islands), * Kalydon (Spinalonga), * Karavi (uninhabited), * Karga (uninhabited), * Katergo (uninhabited), *

Kavaloi Kavaloi ( el, Καβάλοι), is a group of three uninhabited Greek islets, close to the coast of Lasithi, eastern Crete. The close group comprises the islets Anavatis (Αναβάτης "rider"), Kavallos (Καβάλλος), and Kefali (Κεφ� ...

(three uninhabited islands), ** Anavatis, ** Kavallos, ** Kefali, * Kolokytha, *

Koursaroi Koursaroi ( el, Κουρσάροι, "privateers or privateering vessels"), also known as Nisaki ( el, Νησάκι, "small island"), is an islet close to the western coast of Crete, and north-east of the islet of Praso, in the Aegean Sea. Admini ...

, *

Kyriamadi Kyriamadi or Kereamathi ( el, Κυριαμάδι) has a double sense. Geographically it is the middle peninsula of Cape Sideros in the northeast of Crete. Small landbridges connect it on the one hand to the Itanos promontory of mainland Crete to ...

(Peninsula), * Lazaretta, *

Leon Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

(Islet), *

Mavros Mavros ( el, Μαύρος, "black"), is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi. See also *List of islands of Greece Greece has ...

(Uninhabited islet), *

Megatzedes Megatzedes ( el, Μεγατζέδες), is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi. See also *List of islands of Greece Greece h ...

(Uninhabited islet), *

Mochlos Mochlos ( el, Μόχλος) is a modern, populated, and inhabited island in the Gulf of Mirabello in eastern Crete, and the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement. There is evidence that Mochlos was not an island in Minoan times, bu ...

, * Nikolos, *

Palaiosouda Palaiosouda ( el, Παλαιόσουδα, "old Souda"), also known as Marathi ( el, Μαράθι), is an islet located south of the town of Marathi, close to Souda Bay in Crete. The islet is a popular diving location.Peristeri Peristeri (Greek language, Greek: Περιστέρι, meaning "pigeon/dove" in Greek) is a suburban municipality in the western part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. With 139,981 inhabitants (2011 census), it is the seventh-largest municipali ...

(Islet), *

Peristerovrachoi Peristerovrachoi ( el, Περιστερόβραχοι, "pigeon rocks"), are uninhabited Greek islets/rocks, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively they lie within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi. See also *L ...

(Uninhabited rocks), * Petalida (Islet), * Petalouda (Uninhabited islet), *

Pontikaki Pontikaki ( el, Ποντικάκι, "little mouse") is an uninhabited islet off the coast of western Crete that is close to the islet of Pondikonisi. Administratively, it is part of the municipality Kissamos, in Chania regional unit. See also ...

(Uninhabited islet), *

Pondikonisi Pontikonisi ( el, Ποντικονήσι, "mouse island") is an uninhabited islet off the coast of western Crete. Administratively, it is part of the municipality Kissamos, in Chania regional unit. There is a small islet close to Pontikonisi cal ...

(Uninhabited islet), * Praso Kissamou (Islet), * Prosfora (Uninhabited islet), *

Pseira Pseira ( el, Ψείρα) is an islet in the Gulf of Mirabello in northeastern Crete with the archaeological remains of Minoan and Mycenean civilisation. History The island was explored in 1906–1907 by Richard Seager and partially document ...

, *

Sideros Sideros ( el, Σίδερος), is the outermost of a chain of two island-like peninsulas forming, with Itanos promontory, Cape Sidero. They are all three the summits of submarine elevations connected by rocky surface cols on which a road has be ...

(Uninhabited rock), *

Souda Souda ( el, Σούδα) is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of ...

(Islet), * Valenti (Rock), *

Vryonisi Prasonisi, also known as Vryonisi, is an uninhabited Greece, Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the northern coast of eastern Crete. It is extremely small, measuring just in area. Notably, there is a shipwreck on the islet's southern side, ...

(Uninhabited islet),

Cretan islands of the Libyan Sea

Islands on the south coast of Crete are considered in the

. * Agia Eirini, * Ammoudi tous Volakous, *

Artemis In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Artemis (; grc-gre, Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity. She was heavily identified wit ...

(Uninhabited islet), *

Aspros Volakas Aspros Volakas ( el, Ασπρος Βώλακας, ''white rock'') is a large white rock, next to Long Beach, on the coast of Crete, near Lambi, in Rethymno regional unit. This rock feature is formally designated as a cape due to the shallow water ...

(rock), * Chrysi (uninhabited), *

Elafonisi Elafonisi ( el, Ελαφονήσι "deer island") is an island located close to the southwestern corner of the Mediterranean island of Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. When the weather is fine it is ...

, * Fotia (Uninhabited islet), * Gaidouronisi (Uninhabited), *

Gavdopoula Gavdopoula ( el, Γαυδοπούλα, ) is an islet located north-west of its larger neighbour, Gavdos, in the Libyan Sea. It is located to the south of Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. It is part of ...

, *

Gavdos Gavdos ( el, Γαύδος, ) is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much larger neighbour, Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. It forms a community with surrounding islets and was ...

(Southernmost point of Greece), * Koufonisi (Lefki) (Uninhabited islet), * Loutro (Rocky islet), * Makroulo (Uninhabited islet), * Marmaro (Uninhabited islet), *

Mavros Volakas Mavros Volakas ( el, Μαύρος Βώλακας) is a large rock, next to Long Beach, on the coast of Crete, near Lambi, in Rethymno regional unit. There is another large rock that is even closer to the beach, called Aspros Volakas.

(Large rock), * Megalonisi (Uninhabited islet), *

Mikronisi Mikronisi ( el, Μικρονήσι, "small island", also known as ''Agios Pavlos'' el, Άγιος Παύλος, "St Paul") is an islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is in a bay between the capes ...

(Islet), *

Papadoplaka Papadoplaka ( el, Παπαδόπλακα) is a natural reef islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is in a bay between cape Lithino and cape Kefalas, at Kommos, and close to Gortyn which was the a ...

(Reef islet), * Paximadia (Two small uninhabited islands), * Prasonisi, Gavdou (Islet), * Prasonisi, Rethymno (Islet), * Psarocharako (Rock), * Psyllos (Uninhabited islet), * Schistonisi (Islet), * Strongyli (Uninhabited islet), *

Thetis Thetis (; grc-gre, Θέτις ), is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, or one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. When described as ...

(Islet), * Trachilos (Uninhabited islet), *

Trafos Trafos ( el, Τράφος) is an islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan sea. The islet is in a bay between the capes of Lithino and Kefalas, at Kommos, and close to Gortyn which was the ancient capital of Crete. ...

(Islet), * Treis Volakous (Rocks),

Cyclades islands

The Cyclades islands comprise around 220 islands and islets. The main islands are indicated in bold below. * Agios Nikolaos (Macheres), *

Amorgos Amorgos ( el, Αμοργός, ; ) is the easternmost island of the Cyclades island group and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group in Greece. Along with 16 neighboring islets, the largest of which (by land area) is Niko ...

(), * Ananes, *

Anafi Anafi or Anaphe ( el, Ανάφη; grc, Ἀνάφη) is a Greek island community in the Cyclades. In 2011, it had a population of 271. Its land area is . It lies east of the island of Thíra (Santorini). Anafi is part of the Thira regional unit. ...

(), *

Andros Andros ( el, Άνδρος, ) is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, about southeast of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . It is for the most part mountainous, with many fr ...

(), * Aniros (Anydros) * Ano Antikeros *

Antimilos Antimilos ( el, Αντίμηλος) is a Greek island in the Cyclades, northwest of Milos. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Milos. Antimilos is an uninhabited mass of trachyte (671 m height), often called Erimomilos (Desert Mil ...

, *

Antiparos Antiparos ( ell, Αντίπαρος; grc, Ὠλίαρος, Oliaros; la, Oliarus; is a small island in the southern Aegean, at the heart of the Cyclades, which is less than one nautical mile (1.9 km) from Paros, the port to which it is conne ...

, * Anydros Amorgou * Askania, * Christiana (uninhabited), *

Delos The island of Delos (; el, Δήλος ; Attic: , Doric: ), near Mykonos, near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the island are ...

, *

Despotiko Despotikó ( el, Δεσποτικό), anciently, Prepesinthus or Prepesinthos ( grc, Πρεπέσινθος), is a small, uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades. It is situated west of the island of Antiparos, and east of the smaller island of ...

(uninhabited), *

Donousa Donousa ( el, Δονούσα, also Δενούσα ''Denousa''), and sometimes spelled Donoussa, is an island and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, community in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is par ...

(), *

Eschati Eschati (Εσχάτη) is an uninhabited island, lying to southwest of Santorini, in the Cyclades island group in Greece. Cyclades Islands of the South Aegean Islands of Greece {{SouthAegean-geo-stub ...

, *

Folegandros Folegandros (also Pholegandros; el, Φολέγανδρος) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea that, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades. Its surface area is and it has 765 inhabitant ...

(), * Glaronisi, *

Gyaros Gyaros ( el, Γυάρος ), also locally known as Gioura ( el, Γιούρα), is an arid, unpopulated, and uninhabited Greek island in the northern Cyclades near the islands of Andros and Tinos, with an area of . It is a part of the municipality ...

, * Hristiana * Htapodia Mykonou *

Ios iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also includes ...

(), * Iraklia, * Kalogiros *

Kardiotissa Kardiotissa ( el, Καρδιώτισσα), anciently, Lagusa or Lagousa ( grc, Λάγουσα) or Lagussa or Lagoussa (Λαγοῦσσα), is a Greek island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramat ...

, * Kato Antikeros, * Kato Koufonisi, *

Kea The kea (; ; ''Nestor notabilis'') is a species of large parrot in the family Nestoridae found in the forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand. About long, it is mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange under its wing ...

(), *

Keros Keros ( el, Κέρος; anciently, Keria or Kereia ( grc, Κέρεια) is an uninhabited and unpopulated Greece, Greek island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos Island, Naxos. Administratively it is part of the Communities and Municipali ...

, *

Kimolos Kimolos ( el, Κίμωλος; la, Cimolus) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It lies on the southwest of the island group of Cyclades, near the bigger island of Milos. Kimolos is the administrative center of the municipality of Kimolos, which ...

, * Kitriani, *

Koufonisia Koufonisia ( el, Κουφονήσια) is a former community in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area o ...

, * Kramvonisi *

Kythnos Kythnos ( el, Κύθνος), commonly called Thermia ( el, Θερμιά), is a Greek island and municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos. It is from the Athenian harbor of Piraeus. The municipality Kythnos is in area and has a ...

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Milos Milos or Melos (; el, label=Modern Greek, Μήλος, Mílos, ; grc, Μῆλος, Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the Cyclades group. The ''Venus d ...

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Mykonos Mykonos (, ; el, Μύκονος ) is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island has an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 10,134 inhabitants according to the ...

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Naxos Naxos (; el, Νάξος, ) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock rich in corundum, which until modern times was one of the best abr ...

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Nea Kameni Nea Kameni is a small uninhabited Greek island of volcanic origin located in the Aegean Sea, within the flooded Santorini caldera. Nea Kameni and the neighbouring small island Palea Kameni (the new and old burnt islands) have formed over the ...

, * Nikouria, * Nisida Prasini, * Ofidousa, * Pahia Anaphis * Palea Kameni, *

Paros Paros (; el, Πάρος; Venetian: ''Paro'') is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of ...

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Polyaigos Polýaigos ( el, Πολύαιγος; la, Polyaegus) is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades near Milos and Kimolos. It is part of the community of Kimolos (Κοινότητα Κιμώλου). Its name means "many goats", since it is inha ...

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Santorini Santorini ( el, Σαντορίνη, ), officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα ) and classical Greek Thera (English pronunciation ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from the Greek mainland. It is the ...

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Schoinoussa Schoinoussa or Schinoussa ( el, Σχοινούσσα, before 1940: Σχοινούσα, ; anciently, grc, Σχινοῦσσα) is an island and a former community in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the mun ...

, * Serifopoula, *

Serifos Serifos ( el, Σέριφος, la, Seriphus, also Seriphos; Seriphos: Eth. Seriphios: Serpho) is a Greek island municipality in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos. It is part of the Milos reg ...

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Sifnos Sifnos ( el, Σίφνος) is an island municipality in the Cyclades island group in Greece. The main town, near the center, known as Apollonia (pop. 869), is home of the island's folklore museum and library. The town's name is thought to come f ...

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Sikinos Sikinos ( el, Σίκινος) is a Greek island and municipality in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios and Folegandros. Sikinos is part of the Thira regional unit. It was known as Oenoe or Oinoe ( grc, Οἰνόη, ...

, * Skilonisi, * Stroggyli Parou, *

Syros Syros ( el, Σύρος ), also known as Siros or Syra, is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is south-east of Athens. The area of the island is and it has 21,507 inhabitants (2011 census). The largest towns are Ermoupoli, A ...

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Therasia Therasia, also known as Thirasía ( el, Θηρασία), is an island in the volcanic island group of Santorini in the Greek Cyclades. It lies north-west of Nea Kameni, a small island formed in recent centuries by volcanic activity and thus mark ...

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Tinos Tinos ( el, Τήνος ) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos. It has a land area of and a 2011 census population of 8,636 inhabitants. Tinos ...

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Dodecanese islands

There are 164 total Dodecanese Islands of which 26 are inhabited. There are 12 main islands, as listed in bold below: * Agathonissi, * Agioi Theodoroi Halkis * Agreloussa *

Alimia Alimia ( el, Αλιμιά) or Alimnia (Αλιμνιά) is a Greek island of the Aegean Sea, located in the sea area between Rhodes and Halki, the complex of Dodecanese. The surface of the island is and has a coastline of . The island had a small ...

, * Antitilos * Anydros Patmou * Arefoussa * Arhangelos *

Arkoi Arkoi ( el, Αρκοί; also Arkioi ()) is a small Greek island which is part of the Dodecanese archipelago. It is situated in the eastern Aegean Sea, close to the Turkish Aegean Coast. The island belongs to the municipality of Patmos, and has a ...

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Armathia Armathia ( el, Αρμάθια) is a Greek island belonging to the Dodecanese group in the eastern Aegean sea. It is part of the municipality of Kasos. In the census of 1951 there were 8 recorded inhabitants but it has since become uninhabited. At ...

, * Astakida *

Astypalaia Astypalaia ( Greek: Αστυπάλαια, ), is a Greek island with 1,334 residents (2011 census). It belongs to the Dodecanese, an archipelago of fifteen major islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea. The island is long, wide at the most, ...

, * Faradonesia * Farmakonisi, * Fokionissia * Fragos * Gaidourosnissi Tilou * Glaros Kinarou *

Gyali Gyali ( el, Γυαλί " glass", also spelled Giali or Yali, pronounced ) is a volcanic Greek island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos ( Kardamaina) and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes a ...

, * Halavra * Halki, * Hiliomodi Patmou * Hondro * Htenies * Imia (uninhabited), * Kalavros Kalymnou *

Kalolimnos Kalolimnos ( el, Καλόλιμνος) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Imia, opposite the coast of Turkey, in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the municipality of Kalymnos. Kalolimnos reaches an altitude ...

, * Kalovolos *

Kalymnos Kalymnos ( el, Κάλυμνος) is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese island chain, between the islands of Kos (south, at a distance of ) and Leros (north, at a distance of less than ): t ...

, * Kamilonisi * Kandeloussa * Karavolas Rodhou *

Karpathos Karpathos ( el, Κάρπαθος, ), also Carpathos, is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality of Karpathos, which is part o ...

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Kasos Kasos (; el, Κάσος, ), also Casos, is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of the Karpathos regional unit. The capital of the island is Fri. , its population was 1,22 ...

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Kastellorizo Kastellorizo or Castellorizo (; el, Καστελλόριζο, Kastellórizo), officially Megisti ( ''Megísti''), is a Greece, Greek island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean ...

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Kinaros Kinaros ( el, Κίναρος; la, Cinarus or ''Cinara''; it, Zinari), is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, named after the artichoke (kinara) which it produced. It is located west of Kalymnos and Leros and east of Amorgos, 5.5 nautical mi ...

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Kos Kos or Cos (; el, Κως ) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Kos is the third largest island of the Dodecanese by area, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 36,986 (2021 census), ...

(), * Koubelonisi * Kouloundros * Kouloura Leipson * Kounoupoi * Koutsomytis *

Leipsoi Leipsoi ( el, Λειψοί, also: ''Lipsi''; anciently, Lepsia, grc, Λέψια) is an island south of Samos and to the north of Leros in Greece. It is well serviced with ferries passing between Patmos and Leros and on the main route for ferries ...

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Leros Leros ( el, Λέρος) is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies (171 nautical miles) from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 9-hour ferry ride or by a 45-minute flight fr ...

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Levitha Levitha ( el, Λέβιθα), known in classical antiquity as Lebinthus or Lebinthos ( grc, Λέβινθος) is a small Greek island located in the east of the Aegean Sea, between Kinaros and Kalymnos, part of the Dodecanese islands. It is part of ...

, * Makronisi Leipson * Makronissi Kasou * Makry Aspronisi Leipson * Makry Halkis * Marathos, * Marmaras * Mavra Levithas * Megalo Aspronisi Leipson * Megalo Glaronisi * Megalo Sofrano * Mesonisi Seirinas * Mikro Glaronisi, * Mikro Sofrano, * Nerónisi, *

Nimos Nimos is an uninhabited Greek island in the Dodecanese island group of the southern Aegean Sea. Located off the northern coast of Symi, from which it is separated by a small shallow strait called Diapori, it has an area of . It is the island Ym ...

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Nisyros Nisyros also spelled Nisiros ( el, Νίσυρος, Nísiros) is a volcanic Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos. Its shape is appro ...

, * Paheia Nisyrou *

Patmos Patmos ( el, Πάτμος, ) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is famous as the location where John of Patmos received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written. One of the northernmos ...

, * Pergoussa * Piganoussa * Pitta * Plati Kasou * Plati Pserimou * Plati Symis * Pontikoussa * Prasonissi Rodhou * Prasouda *

Pserimos Pserimos ( el, Ψέριμος Δωδεκανήσου) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Kos in front of the coast of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türk ...

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(), * Safonidi * Saria, * Seirina * Sesklio * Stroggyli * Strongyli Megistis (Easternmost point of Greece), * Strongyli Kritinias * Strongyli Kasou *

Symi Symi, also transliterated as Syme or Simi ( el, Σύμη), is a Greek island and municipality. It is mountainous and includes the harbor town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller localities, beaches, and areas o ...

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Telendos Telendos, ( el, Τέλενδος) is a Greek island in the southeastern Aegean Sea, belonging to the Dodecanese. It is approximately off the coast of the larger island of Kalymnos, of which it is administratively a part. It was a member of the D ...

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Tilos Tílos ( el, Τήλος; grc, Τῆλος, Telos) is a small Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, and lies midway between Kos and Rhodes. It has a population of 780 inhabitants ( ...

, * Tragonisi *

Zaforas Zaforas ( el, Ζαφοράς) is a small Greek island in the southern part of the Dodecanese chain, about south of the island Astypalaia Astypalaia ( Greek: Αστυπάλαια, ), is a Greek island with 1,334 residents (2011 census). It b ...

Euboea and surrounding islands

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Kavalliani Kavalliani is a small island in the South Euboean Gulf. It is located opposite of ancient Rhamnous in Attica. The island is still uninhabited although a building cooperative of Emporiki Bank is developed in the island. The island has an area about ...

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Lichades Lichades or Lichadonisia ( el, Λιχάδες or Λιχαδονήσια) is an island complex off the north west of Euboea, in the North Euboean Gulf. The islands located opposite Lichada cape in the north-western extreme of Euboea and opposite of ...

, * Lithari * Mandilou * Monoliá, * Megalos Petalios *

Petalioi Petalioi el, Πεταλιοί is an island complex in south-east of Euboea, in the homonymous gulf. It consists of 10 small islands and islets almost all uninhabited. The total area of the complex is 22.5 square kilometers. They belong to Karyst ...

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North Aegean Islands

Agios Efstratios Agios Efstratios or Saint Eustratius ( el, Άγιος Ευστράτιος), colloquially Ai Stratis ( el, Άη Στράτης), anciently Halonnesus or Halonnesos ( grc, Ἁλόννησος), is a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea abo ...

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Chios Chios (; el, Χίος, Chíos , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. Chios is notable for its exports of mastic ...

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Icaria Icaria, also spelled Ikaria ( el, Ικαρία), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. According to tradition, it derives its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who was be ...

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Lemnos Lemnos or Limnos ( el, Λήμνος; grc, Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The p ...

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Oinousses Oinousses ( el, Οινούσσες, alternative forms: ''Aignousa'' (Αιγνούσα) or ''Egnousa'' (Εγνούσα)) is a barren cluster of 1 larger and 8 smaller islands some off the north-east coast of the Greek island of Chios and west of ...

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Psara Psara ( el, Ψαρά, , ; known in ancient times as /, /) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Together with the small island of Antipsara (Population 4) it forms the municipality of Psara. It is part of the Chios regional unit, which is part of ...

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Antipsara Antipsara ( el, Αντίψαρα) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Antipsara had 4 inhabitants according to the 2011 census.ΦΕΚ αποτελεσμάτων ΜΟΝΙΜΟΥ πληθυσμού απογραφής 2011�, σελ. 10833 (σ� ...

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Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate ...

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Fournoi Korseon Fournoi Korseon ( el, Φούρνοι Κορσέων), more commonly simply Fournoi ( el, Φούρνοι), anciently known as Corsiae or Korsiai ( grc, Κορσίαι), Corseae or Korseai (Κορσεαί), Corsia or Korsia (Κορσία), and Co ...

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Agios Minas Agios Minas ( el, Άγιος Μηνάς) is a former municipality on the island of Chios, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chios, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located on the cent ...

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Thracian Sea 250px, Thracian Sea satellite picture The Thracian Sea ( el, Θρακικό Πέλαγος, ''Thrakiko Pelagos''; tr, Trakya Denizi) is the northernmost part of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded by Macedonia and Thrace as well as northwestern Tur ...

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Samothrace Samothrace (also known as Samothraki, el, Σαμοθράκη, ) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a municipality within the Evros regional unit of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,859 (2011 ...

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Thassos Thasos or Thassos ( el, Θάσος, ''Thásos'') is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. The island has an area of and a population of about 13,000. It forms a separate re ...

Sporades islands

The 30 islands in the Sporades are listed below with the four major islands in bold. The largest Sporades island is Skyros. * Adelfoi Islets, * Agios Georgios Skopelou *

Alonissos Alonnisos ( el, Αλόννησος ), also transliterated as Alonissos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Northern Sporades. It is (2 nm) east of the island of Skopelos. Alonnisos ...

(), * Arkos (Skiathos Municipality), * Aspronisi (Skiathos Municipality) * Dasia *

Erinia Erinia, also Rineia ( el, Ερηνιά or Ρήνεια), is a Greek island in the Sporades located west of Skyros Skyros ( el, Σκύρος, ), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros ( grc, Σκῦρος, ), is an island in Greece, the ...

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Gioura Gioura ( el, Γιούρα), sometimes romanized as Youra, is a Greek island and abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Northern Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos Alonnisos ( el, Αλόννησος ), ...

, * Grammeza, * Korakas Alonissou *

Kyra Panagia Kyra Panagia ( el, Κυρά Παναγιά ) is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos in the Sporades regional unit. The island is also known by the name of Pelagos and rarely Pelagonisi. . A ...

, * Lekhoussa, * Manolas Alonissou * Maragos (Skiathos Municipality) * Peristera, * Piperi, * Polemika Alonissou * Praso Skantzouras *

Psathoura Psathoura ( el, Ψαθούρα) is a Greek island in the Northern Sporades. It is administratively a part of Alonnisos. , it had no resident population. The Psathoura lighthouse, built in 1895, stands at 28.9 metres. It is one of the tallest in th ...

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Repi Repi (Greek: Ρέπι) is a small Greek island off the east coast of Skiathos, Sporades, Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the B ...

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Skantzoura Skantzoura ( el, Σκάντζουρα) is an island in the Sporades archipelago, Greece. The island is located southeast of the larger island of Alonnisos (to which it belongs administratively) and northwest of the island Skyros Skyros ( el, ...

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Skiathos Skiathos ( el, Σκιάθος, , ; grc, Σκίαθος, ; and ) is a small Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea. Skiathos is the westernmost island in the Northern Sporades group, east of the Pelion peninsula in Magnesia on the mainland, ...

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Skopelos Skopelos ( el, Σκόπελος, ) is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group, which lies east of the Pelion peninsula on the mainland and north of the island ...

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Skyropoula Skyropoula (Greek: Σκυροπούλα, English: "Little Skyros") is a Greek island in the Sporades. The islet of Erinia lies directly to the east as well as the main island of Skyros. From 1860 until 2001, it was the private island of the Anton ...

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Skyros Skyros ( el, Σκύρος, ), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros ( grc, Σκῦρος, ), is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the ...

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Tsougria Tsougria, Tsoungria, or Tsougkria ( el, Τσουγκριά, ) is a Greek island in the western part of the Sporades. , it had no resident population, as it is a protected natural habitat. It is administratively part of the municipality of Skiatho ...

(Skiathos Municipality), * Troulonisi (Skiathos Municipality) * Tsougriaki (Skiathos Municipality) *

Valaxa Valaxa () is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is located southwest of the island Skyros, and is administratively a part of Skyros. Nearest Islands and Islets Its nearest islands and islets are Erinia to the west and Skyros Skyros ( el, � ...

Ionian Sea islands

Islands in the

are listed below. The seven largest and most popular islands are listed in bold.Kruse, ''Hellas'', vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 455, seq.; Leake, ''Northern Greece'', vol. iii. pp. 30, seq., 50, seq.; Mure, ''Tour in Greece'', vol. i. p. 104. *

Antikythera Antikythera or Anticythera ( ) is a Greek island lying on the edge of the Aegean Sea, between Crete and Peloponnese. In antiquity the island was known as (). Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Kythira islan ...

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Antipaxos Antipaxos ( el, Αντίπαξος, ) is a small island (5 km²) in Greece, about to the south of Paxos. It is administratively part of the municipality of Paxoi in Corfu regional unit in western Greece. , the resident population of the ...

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Arkoudi Arkoudi ( Greek: Αρκούδι, meaning bear) is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is situated south of Lefkada, northeast of Ithaca and southwest of Meganisi Meganisi (Greek: Μεγανήσι, literally "big island") is a Gree ...

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Atokos Atokos ( el, Άτοκος) is a small, uninhabited Greek island in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania and is one of the most westerly and perhaps remotest of the Echinades Islands. , it had no resident population. It lies northeast of It ...

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Cephalonia Kefalonia or Cephalonia ( el, Κεφαλονιά), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It i ...

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Corfu Corfu (, ) or Kerkyra ( el, Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, , ; ; la, Corcyra.) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The isl ...

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Echinades The Echinades (; Greek: per Herodotus, Thucydides, and Strabo, per Homer Echinae (, it, Curzolari) are a group of islands in the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Acarnania, Greece. The archipelago is commonly subdivided into three groups: the Drakon ...

Apasa Ephesus (; grc-gre, Ἔφεσος, Éphesos; tr, Efes; may ultimately derive from hit, 𒀀𒉺𒊭, Apaša) was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in ...

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Drakonera Drakonera (Greek: Δρακονέρα) is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece. Drakonera forms part of the northern group of the Echinades, which are called the Drakoneras after the island. The mainland with the ...

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Filippos Filippos is a masculine given name. It may refer to: * Filippos Filippou (athlete), Cypriot distance runner * Filippos Filippou (footballer), Cypriot footballer * Filippos Karvelas, Greek gymnast * Filippos Margaritis, Greek photographer * Fili ...

, ** Girovaris or Gkravaris, ** Kalogiros, ** Karlonisi, ** Kouneli or Makropoula, **

Lamprinos Lamprinos (Greek: Λαμπρινός) is an island of the Echinades (Drakoneres subgroup), among the Ionian Islands group of Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is sit ...

, ** Makri, ** Modio or Modi, **

Oxeia Oxeia ( el, Οξεία) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. , it had no resident population. It is the chief island in the southern group (the Ouniades) of the Echinades, part of the Ionian Islands. Oxeia possesses the highest point in the E ...

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Petalas Petalas (Greek: Πεταλάς) is the largest island (area ) of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece. , it had no resident population. Some, including William Martin Leake, have suggested that Petalas is the site of ancient ...

, ** Pistros, ** Pontikos, ** Praso, ** Provati, ** Sofía, **

Soros George Soros ( name written in eastern order), (born György Schwartz, August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. , he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated mo ...

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Vromonas Vromonas ( el, Βρομώνας) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Islands located east of the island of Ithaca (island), Ithaca. , it had no resident population. References External linksVromonas on GTP Travel Pages
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Elafonissos Elafonisos ( el, Ελαφόνησος) is a small Greek island between the Peloponnese and Kythira. It lies off the coast of Cape Malea and Vatika. The area of the island is . Overview The population is between 300 and 350 during the winter b ...

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Ereikoussa Ereikoussa ( gr, Ερεικούσσα, it, Merlera) is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. It is one of the Diapontian Islands; an island complex to the northwest of Corfu. Since the 2019 local government reform it ...

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Ithaca Ithaca most commonly refers to: *Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey'' *Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca *Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College Ithaca, Ithaka ...

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Kalamos Kalamos ( grc, Κάλαμος, lit=reed, reed pen; la, Calamus) is a Greek mythological figure. He is son of Maiandros, the god of the Maeander river. Mythology A story in Nonnus's ''Dionysiaca'' tells about the love of two youths, Kalamos and K ...

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Kastos Kastos ( el, Καστός) is a Greek island and a former community east of the island of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lefkada, of which it is a municipal unit. Until 1974, ...

, * Kravia, *

Kythira Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an Greek islands, island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Io ...

, * Kythros, *

Lazaretto A lazaretto or lazaret (from it, lazzaretto a diminutive form of the Italian word for beggar cf. lazzaro) is a quarantine station for maritime travellers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or mainland buildings ...

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Lefkada Lefkada ( el, Λευκάδα, ''Lefkáda'', ), also known as Lefkas or Leukas (Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Λευκάς, ''Leukás'', modern pronunciation ''Lefkás'') and Leucadia, is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Gr ...

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Madouri Madouri ( el, Μαδουρή) is a small uninhabited island in the Ionian Sea, near Lefkada, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Ellomenos.Mathraki Mathraki ( el, Μαθράκι, grc, Μαθράκιον) is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. It is one of the Diapontian Islands. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Central Cor ...

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Meganisi Meganisi (Greek: Μεγανήσι, literally "big island") is a Greek island and municipality immediately to the east-southeast of the island of Lefkada. The municipality includes the offshore islands of Skorpios (pop. 2 persons) and Sparti. The ...

, * Modia Islets, * Omfori (Uninhabited, private), *

Othonoi Othonoi ( el, Οθωνοί, also rendered as Othoni, grc, Ὀθρωνός , translit=Othrōnós) is a small and inhabited Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece. Othonoi is the largest ...

(westernmost point of Greece), *

Paxi Paxos ( gr, Παξός) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, lying just south of Corfu. As a group with the nearby island of Antipaxos and adjoining islets, it is also called by the plural form Paxi or Paxoi ( gr, Παξοί, pronounced in Engl ...

, * Provati, * Proti, *

Sapientza Sapientza or Sapienza ( el, Σαπιέντζα) Σαπιέντζα is a Greek island off the southern coast of the Peloponnese, near the city of Methóni. It is administratively part of the municipality of Pylos-Nestor, in Messenia. The 2011 cens ...

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Schiza Schiza ( el, Σχίζα) is a Greek island off the southwestern coast of the Peloponnese. According to 2011 census, the island is uninhabited. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Methoni in Messenia. It is the largest island of the ...

(Uninhabited), *

Skorpios Skorpios or Scorpios ( el, Σκορπιός, ) is a private island in the Ionian Sea off the western coast of Greece and just to the east of the island of Lefkada. The 2011 census reported a population of five inhabitants. Administratively it i ...

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Skorpidi Scorpidi Lefkada (Greek: Σκορπίδι Λευκάδας) is a small island in the Ionian Sea just north of Scorpio. It belongs to the Televoes Islands cluster and the Prigiponisia (Lefkada) cluster. The island is now privately owned and ...

(Private), * Sparti Lefkados, *

Sphacteria Sphacteria ( el, Σφακτηρία - ''Sfaktiria'') also known as Sphagia (Σφαγία) is a small island at the entrance to the bay of Pylos in the Peloponnese, Greece. It was the site of three battles: *the 425 BC Battle of Sphacteria in the ...

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Strofades Strofades ( el, Στροφάδες; also called Strofadia, , or Stromphides, ) is a group of two small Greek islands in the Ionian Islands. They lie about south-southeast of the island of Zakynthos. Administratively they are part of the Municip ...

, * Thilia, *

Vido Vido ( el, Βίδο) is an island of the Ionian Islands group of Greece. It is a small island (less than a kilometer in diameter) at the mouth of the port of Corfu. History The island was known to the ancients as Ptychia ( grc, Πτυχία ...

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Zakynthos Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; el, Ζάκυνθος, Zákynthos ; it, Zacinto ) or Zante (, , ; el, Τζάντε, Tzánte ; from the Venetian form) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Za ...

Islets close to mainland

The following islands are close to the mainland and not part of a sea: * Alatas Trikeriou, *

Ammouliani Ammouliani ( el, Αμμουλιανή , ''Ammoulianí''), also known as Amoliani, is an island located in the Chalkidiki regional unit, Greece, from Thessaloniki. Administratively it is part of the municipal unit of Stagira-Akanthos. , the resid ...

(Chalkidiki), * Antitrikeri (Thessaly) * Kelyfos, *

Paleo Trikeri Paleo Trikeri ( gr, Παλαιό Τρίκερι) or Old Trikeri, also known as Trikeri Island, is a small island in the Pagasitic Gulf off the end of the Pelion peninsula in Thessaly, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Trikeri within the ...

(Thessaly), * Trizonia island (Central Greece),

Islands not in the sea

Lake and river islands

* Agios Achilleios (

Small Prespa Lake Small Prespa Lake ( el, Λίμνη Μικρή Πρέσπα, ''Limni Mikri Prespa''; sq, Prespa e Vogël; mk, Мало Преспанско Езеро, ''Malo Prespansko Ezero'') is a lake shared between Greece (138 km² drainage area; 42.5 ...

), *

Ioannina Island Ioannina Island ( el, Νήσος Ιωαννίνων) is an island in the Lake of Ioannina, Epirus, Greece, a municipal unit of the municipality of Ioannina. Its area is 0.2 km2, with biggest length 800 meters and biggest width 500 meters. Un ...

(

Lake Pamvotida Lake Pamvotida or Pamvotis ( el, Λίμνη Παμβώτιδα/Παμβώτις), commonly also Lake of Ioannina ( el, Λίμνη των Ιωαννίνων, ''Limni ton Ioanninon'') is the largest lake of Epirus, located in the central part o ...

), * Vidronisi (

), * Anonymous islet (Limnothálassa Pápas lagoon, Western Achaia),

Islands in an island

* Marathi Island (Marathi Lake (reservoir) in

Lagoon islands

Aitoliko Lagoon The Aitoliko Lagoon ( el, Λιμνοθάλασσα Αιτωλικού ''Limnothalassa Aitolikou'') is a lagoon located in the south of Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. It is separated from the larger Missolonghi Lagoon (a bay of the Gulf of Patras) to ...

Aitoliko Aitoliko (Greek: Αιτωλικό) is a town and a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Messolonghi, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit ...

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Missolonghi Lagoon The Missolonghi Lagoon ( el, Λιμνοθάλασσα Μεσολογγίου, ''Limnothalassa Mesolongiou'') is a shallow lagoon located in the south of Aetolia-Acarnania, Western Greece. It is connected to the Gulf of Patras, a bay of the Ionian ...

** Dolmas ** Kleisova, ** Komma, ** Prokopanistos ** Schinias **

Tourlida Tourlida ( el, Τουρλίδα) is an island in Missolonghi Lagoon, in Greece. It is a long-narrow earthy land about 5 km south of Missolonghi. Tourlida is the largest lagoon island of Missolonghi lagoon and the only inhabited. Its populatio ...

, ** Vasiladi,

Notes

References

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Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World The ''Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World'' is a large-format English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard Talbert, Richard J. A. Talbert. The time period depicted is roughly from Archaic Greece, ...

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Islands of Greece, List Of Geography of Greece *

Lists of landforms of Greece