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Crete (/ k r iː t / KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti, Ancient: Krḗtē [krɛ̌ːtεː]) 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 Corsica.
Regions of the Greek islands. Greece has many islands, 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 both area and population is Crete, located at the southern edge of the ...
Kastellorizo or Castellorizo ( US: / ˌkɑːstəˈlɔːrɪzoʊ /; [3] Greek: Καστελλόριζο, romanized : Kastellórizo ), officially Megisti ( Μεγίστη Megísti ), is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean. [4] [5] It lies roughly 2 kilometres (1 mile) off the south coast of Turkey, about ...
Karpathos ( Greek: Κάρπαθος, pronounced [ˈkarpaθos] ), 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 of the regional unit Karpathos-Kasos. Because of its remote location ...
– in Europe (light green & dark grey) – in the European Union (light green) Capital and largest city Athens 37°58′N 23°43′E / 37.967°N 23.717°E / 37.967; 23.717 Official language and national language Greek Religion (2017) 93% Christianity 90% Greek Orthodoxy (official) a 3% other Christian 4% no religion 2% Islam 1% other Demonym(s) Greek Hellene Government Unitary ...
Kos or Cos (/ k ɒ s, k ɔː s /; Greek: Κως) is a Greek island, which is 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 37,089 (2021 census), making it the second most populous of the Dodecanese, after Rhodes.
Gyaros ( Greek: Γυάρος pronounced [ˈʝaros] ), also locally known as Gioura ( Greek: Γιούρα ), is an arid, unpopulated, and uninhabited Greek island in the northern Cyclades near the islands of Andros and Tinos, with an area of 23 square kilometres (9 sq mi). It is a part of the municipality of Ano Syros, which lies primarily on ...
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 ...