List of islands of Greece

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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).

1 Islands of Greece by size
2 Saronic islands
3 The Northern Sporades
- 3.1 Main islands
- 3.2 Other islands and islets
4 The Ionian islands
5 The Dodecanese islands
6 Aegean islands
- 6.1 Islands of the central Aegean sea
- 6.2 Islands in the Thracian Sea
7 The Cyclades
8 Crete and surrounding islands
9 Euboea and surrounding islands
10 Islets close to mainland
11 See also
12 References

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.

	Island	Area (sq. miles)	(km²)
1	Crete	3219	8336
2	Euboea	1423	3685
3	Lesbos	630	1633
4	Rhodes	541	1401
5	Kefalonia	350	906.5
6	Khíos	325	842.3
7	Corfu	229	592.9
8	Lemnos	184	477.6
9	Samos	184	477.4
10	Naxos	166	429.8
11	Zakynthos	157	406
12	Thassos	147	380.1
13	Andros	147	380.0
14	Lefkada	137	355.9
15	Karpathos	125	324.8
16	Kos	112	290.3
17	Kythira	108	279.6