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As of 2011, the official administrative divisions of Greece consist of 13 regions (Greek: περιφέρειες)—nine on the mainland and four island groups—which are further subdivided into 74 regional units and 325 municipalities. Formerly, there were also 54 prefectures or prefectural-level administrations.
Paros ( / ˈpɛərɒs /; Greek: Πάρος; Venetian: Paro) is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea. Part of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about 8 kilometres (5 miles) wide. [ 2] It lies approximately 150 km (93 miles) south-east of Piraeus.
Central Greece is the most populous geographical region of Greece, with a population of 4,591,568 people, and covers an area of 24,818.3 km 2 (9,582.4 sq mi), making it the second-largest of the country. It is located to the north of the Peloponnese and to the south of Thessaly and Epirus, bordering the Aegean Sea to the east, the Ionian Sea to ...
Regions of the Greek islands. Greece has many islands, [Note 1] 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 both area and population is Crete, located at the ...
Reverted to version as of 17:09, 17 January 2015 (UTC) The islands are part of geographical Aegean Sea nevertheless. 11:28, 25 March 2016: 8,460 × 7,315 (1.37 MB) Nikospag: Thasos and Sporades are not part of Aegean Islands region: 17:09, 17 January 2015: 8,460 × 7,315 (1.83 MB) SilentResident
Greece – sovereign country located on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe. [ 1] It borders Albania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the Eastern Mediterranean basin ...
Module:Location map/data/Greece Ionian Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Greece Ionian Islands. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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