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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 ...
List of Aegean Islands. This is a list of Aegean Islands, which includes the English, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, and Italian names for these islands in the Aegean Sea arranged by island group. [ Note 1] Since World War II, the vast majority of the islands and islets are in Greek territory with notable exception being ...
The Aegean Islands[ a][ 1] are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast. The ancient Greek name of the Aegean Sea, Archipelago ( ἀρχιπέλαγος, archipelagos ), was ...
Crete ( / kriːt / KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti [ˈkriti], 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. Crete is located about 100 km (62 mi) south of ...
Today, all the islands are part of the Greek region of the Ionian Islands ( Ionioi Nisoi ), except Kythera, which is part of the region of Attica. Kerkyra has a population of 103,300 (including Paxoi), Zakynthos 40,650, Kefallonia 39,579 (including Ithaca), Lefkada 22,536, Ithaki 3,052, Kythera 3,000 and Paxi 2,438.
Topographic map of Greece. Greece is located in South Eastern Europe, bordering the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a peninsular country, with an archipelago of about 3,000 islands. It has a total area of 131,957 km 2 (50,949 sq mi), [ 6] of which land area is 130,647 km 2 and internal waters (lakes and rivers) account for 1,310 km 2.
The Dodecanese (UK: / ˌ d oʊ d ɪ k ə ˈ n iː z /, US: / d oʊ ˌ d ɛ k ə ˈ n iː z /; Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa [ðoðeˈkanisa], lit. ' twelve islands '; Turkish: On iki Ada) are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited.
Corfu is known as the island of the Phaeacians . The name Corfù is a Venetian and Italian version of the Byzantine Κορυφώ (Koryphō), meaning "city of the peaks". It derives from the Byzantine Greek Κορυφαί (Koryphai) (crests or peaks), denoting the two peaks of Palaio Frourio.