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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.
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 ...
This is a list of rivers that are at least partially in Greece. The rivers flowing into the sea are sorted along the coast. Rivers flowing into other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into. The confluence is given in parentheses. For an alphabetical overview of rivers of Greece see Category:Rivers of Greece.
Aegean Sea Islands map showing island groups Satellite view of the Aegean Sea and Islands. 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.
Corfu ( / kɔːrˈf ( j) uː / kor-FEW, -FOO, US also / ˈkɔːrf ( j) uː / KOR-few, -foo) or Kerkyra ( Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized :Kérkyra, pronounced [ˈcercira] ⓘ) a is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, 1 and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the nation's northwestern frontier ...
Area code (s) 225x0. Lesbos or Lesvos ( Greek: Λέσβος, romanized :Lésvos [ˈlezvos]) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1,633 km 2 (631 sq mi), [ 2 ] with approximately 400 kilometres (249 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece and the eighth largest in the Mediterranean.
On 21 May 1864 the Ionian Islands officially reunited with Greece. [5] Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark was born in Corfu in 1921 and grew up to become Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 1923, following orders by Mussolini, the Italians temporarily occupied Corfu.
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 southern edge of the Aegean Sea.