Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

has many

islands An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

, 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 area is

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) 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, ...

, located at the southern edge of the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans ...

. The second largest island is

Euboea Evia (, ; el, Εύβοια ; grc, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only at its narrowest poin ...

or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide

Euripus Strait The Euripus Strait ( el, Εύριπος ) is a narrow channel of water separating the Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea from Boeotia in mainland Greece. The strait's principal port is Chalcis on Euboea, located at the strait's narrowest poi ...

, and is administered as part of the

Central Greece Continental Greece ( el, Στερεά Ελλάδα, Stereá Elláda; formerly , ''Chérsos Ellás''), colloquially known as Roúmeli (Ρούμελη), is a traditional geographic region of Greece. In English, the area is usually called Central ...

region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands,

Lesbos Lesbos or Lesvos ( el, Λέσβος, Lésvos ) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of with approximately of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece. It is separated from Asia Minor by the nar ...

and

Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the S ...

, 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 Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

; the

Cyclades The Cyclades (; el, Κυκλάδες, ) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name ...

, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea; the

North Aegean islands The North Aegean islands are a number of disconnected islands in the north Aegean Sea, also known as the Northeastern Aegean islands, belonging mostly to Greece and a few of them to Turkey. The islands do not form a physical chain or group, but ...

, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey; the Dodecanese, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey; the

Sporades The (Northern) Sporades (; el, Βόρειες Σποράδες, ) are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea,"Skyros - Britannica Concise" (description), Britannica Concise, 2006, webpageEB-Skyrosnotes " ...

, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea; and the Ionian Islands, chiefly located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea. Crete with its surrounding islets and Euboea are traditionally excluded from this grouping. This article excludes the Peloponnese, which has technically been an island since the construction of the

Corinth Canal The Corinth Canal ( el, Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, translit=Dhioryga tis Korinthou) is an artificial canal in Greece, that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the ...

in 1893, but is rarely considered to be an island due to its artificial origins.

Islands of Greece by size

The following are the largest Greek islands listed by surface area. The table includes all islands of over .

Islands of Greece by population

Islands of the Aegean Sea

Argo-Saronic Islands

Aerial of Hydra island, Greece (43958918185)

This list includes Argo-Saronic islands, which are located in the

Saronic Gulf The Saronic Gulf (Greek: Σαρωνικός κόλπος, ''Saronikós kólpos'') or Gulf of Aegina in Greece is formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea. It defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Co ...

. The largest Argo-Saronic island is Salamis. The main islands are in bold. Uninhabited islands are indicated, including those that may have been inhabited in the past: *

Aegina Aegina (; el, Αίγινα, ''Aígina'' ; grc, Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born on the island and ...

(), * Agios Georgios (uninhabited), * Agios Georgios Salaminos (St. George's Island, uninhabited), Google Maps * Agios Ioannis Diaporion (uninhabited) * Agios Thomas Diaporion (uninhabited), *

Agistri Agistri, also Angistri or Agkistri (Greek: Αγκίστρι , English: "fishing hook"), is a small populated island and municipality in the Saronic Gulf in the Islands regional unit, Greece. Settlements There are only three settlements on Agis ...

(), * Alexandros Hydras, * Atalanti Island, * Dia (uninhabited) *

Dokos Dokos ( el, Δοκός) is a small Greek island of the Argo-Saronic Gulf, adjacent to Hydra, and separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait called, on some maps, "the Hydra Gulf." It is part of the municipality of Ýdra (Hydra) in Isla ...

(), * Falkonera (uninhabited), * Fleves (uninhabited), * Hydra (), * Katramoniso (Nisís Idhroúsa, uninhabited), * Kyra Aiginis (Nisída Kyrá) (uninhabited), * Laousses Islets (Nísoi Laoúses, uninhabited), * Leros Salaminos (uninhabited), * Modi Porou (uninhabited), * Moni Aiginas (uninhabited), * Patroklos (uninhabited), * Pera Island ( Arta), * Platia (uninhabited), * Platia Aeginis (uninhabited), *

Poros Poros ( el, Πόρος) is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south from the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the ...

(), * Psili (uninhabited) * Psyttaleia (uninhabited), * Revythousa (uninhabited), * Romvi (Nisida Romvi) (uninhabited), * Salamis (), *

Spetses Spetses ( el, Σπέτσες, grc, Πιτυούσσα "Pityussa", Arvanitika: Πετσε̱) is an upscale affluent island in Attica, Greece. It is included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolis ...

(), *

Spetsopoula Spetsopoula ( el, Σπετσοπούλα) is an island situated to the southeast of Spetses, which is one of the Saronic Islands, in the region of Attica and the Aegean Sea. It is located at about from Athens. Its area is about 2 Km2. According t ...

(uninhabited), * Stavronisi Hydras (uninhabited), * Trikeri Hydras (uninhabited), * Velopoula (Nisída Velopoúla) (uninhabited), * Ypsili Diaporion (uninhabited) * Ypsili Argolidos (uninhabited)

Cretan islands

The two lists below show the islands, islets, and rocks that surround the island of Crete that are in the Aegean Sea or

Libyan Sea The Libyan Sea ( Greek , Latin ''Libycum Mare'', Arabic البحر الليبي) is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the African coast of ancient ''Libya'', i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now eastern Libya ...

Cretan islands of the Aegean Sea

20090620 Spinalogka Elounta panoramic view from the mountain

* Afendis Christos, * Agia Varvara, * Agioi Apostoloi, * Agioi Pandes, *

Agioi Theodoroi Agioi Theodoroi ( el, Άγιοι Θεόδωροι) is a town and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Loutraki-Perachora-Agioi Theodoroi, of which it is a ...

, * Agios Nikolaos, * Agriomandra, * Anavatis, *

Arnaouti Arnaouti ( el, Αρναούτη) is an islet on the northern coast of Crete in the Aegean Sea. It is just south of the island of Gramvousa, Imeri Gramvousa and is located between Imeri Gramvousa and Valenti rock. Administratively, it is located w ...

, * Avgo (uninhabited islet), *

, * Daskaleia (uninhabited islet), * Dia (Zeus, uninhabited), *

Diapori Diapori ( el, Διαπόρι) is an island that almost touches the coast of Crete, near Geropotamos, in Rethymno regional unit.

, * Dionysades (group of islands), ** Gianysada, ** Dragonada, ** Paximada, ** Paximadaki, * Elasa, *

Ftena Trachylia Ftena Trachylia ( el, Φτενά Τραχύλια, "thin and rough or uneven"), also known as Pinnacle Rocks ( el, Πίνακλ), are a group of uninhabited Greek islets/rocks, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administrativ ...

, * Glaronisi, *

Gramvoussa Gramvousa also Grampousa ( el, Γραμβούσα or Γραμπούσα, further names include ''Akra'', ''Cavo Buso'', ''Cavo Bouza'', ''Garabusa'' and ''Grabusa'') refers to two small uninhabited islands off the coast of a peninsula also known ...

, ** Agria Gramvousa, ** Imeri Gramvousa, * Grandes (group of islands), * Kalydon (Spinalonga), * Karavi (uninhabited), * Karga (uninhabited), * Katergo (uninhabited), * Kavaloi (three uninhabited islands), ** Anavatis, ** Kavallos, ** Kefali, * Kolokytha, *

Koursaroi Koursaroi ( el, Κουρσάροι, "privateers or privateering vessels"), also known as Nisaki ( el, Νησάκι, "small island"), is an islet close to the western coast of Crete, and north-east of the islet of Praso, in the Aegean Sea. Admini ...

, *

Kyriamadi Kyriamadi or Kereamathi ( el, Κυριαμάδι) has a double sense. Geographically it is the middle peninsula of Cape Sideros in the northeast of Crete. Small landbridges connect it on the one hand to the Itanos promontory of mainland Crete t ...

(Peninsula), * Lazaretta, *

Leon Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again f ...

(Islet), * Mavros (Uninhabited islet), * Megatzedes (Uninhabited islet), *

Mochlos Mochlos ( el, Μόχλος) is a modern, populated, and inhabited island in the Gulf of Mirabello in eastern Crete, and the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement. There is evidence that Mochlos was not an island in Minoan times, bu ...

, * Nikolos, *

Palaiosouda Palaiosouda ( el, Παλαιόσουδα, "old Souda"), also known as Marathi ( el, Μαράθι), is an islet located south of the town of Marathi, close to Souda Bay in Crete. The islet is a popular diving location.Peristeri (Islet), * Peristerovrachoi (Uninhabited rocks), * Petalida (Islet), * Petalouda (Uninhabited islet), * Pontikaki (Uninhabited islet), * Pondikonisi (Uninhabited islet), * Praso Kissamou (Islet), * Prosfora (Uninhabited islet), * Pseira, *

Sideros Sideros ( el, Σίδερος), is the outermost of a chain of two island-like peninsulas forming, with Itanos promontory, Cape Sidero. They are all three the summits of submarine elevations connected by rocky surface cols on which a road has bee ...

(Uninhabited rock), *

Souda Souda ( el, Σούδα) is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of ...

(Islet), * Valenti (Rock), *

Vryonisi Prasonisi, also known as Vryonisi, is an uninhabited Greece, Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the northern coast of eastern Crete. It is extremely small, measuring just in area. Notably, there is a shipwreck on the islet's southern side, ...

(Uninhabited islet),

Cretan islands of the Libyan Sea

Islands on the south coast of Crete are considered in the

. * Agia Eirini, * Ammoudi tous Volakous, *

Artemis In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Artemis (; grc-gre, Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity. She was heavily identified wit ...

(Uninhabited islet), *

Aspros Volakas Aspros Volakas ( el, Ασπρος Βώλακας, ''white rock'') is a large white rock, next to Long Beach, on the coast of Crete, near Lambi, in Rethymno regional unit. This rock feature is formally designated as a cape due to the shallow water ...

(rock), * Chrysi (uninhabited), * Elafonisi, * Fotia (Uninhabited islet), * Gaidouronisi (Uninhabited), *

Gavdopoula Gavdopoula ( el, Γαυδοπούλα, ) is an islet located north-west of its larger neighbour, Gavdos, in the Libyan Sea. It is located to the south of Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. It is part of ...

, *

Gavdos Gavdos ( el, Γαύδος, ) is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much larger neighbour, Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the regional unit of Chania. It forms a community with surrounding islets and was ...

(Southernmost point of Greece), * Koufonisi (Lefki) (Uninhabited islet), * Loutro (Rocky islet), * Makroulo (Uninhabited islet), * Marmaro (Uninhabited islet), *

Mavros Volakas Mavros Volakas ( el, Μαύρος Βώλακας) is a large rock, next to Long Beach, on the coast of Crete, near Lambi, in Rethymno regional unit. There is another large rock that is even closer to the beach, called Aspros Volakas.

(Large rock), * Megalonisi (Uninhabited islet), *

Mikronisi Mikronisi ( el, Μικρονήσι, "small island", also known as ''Agios Pavlos'' el, Άγιος Παύλος, "St Paul") is an islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is in a bay between the capes ...

(Islet), *

Papadoplaka Papadoplaka ( el, Παπαδόπλακα) is a natural reef islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is in a bay between cape Lithino and cape Kefalas, at Kommos, and close to Gortyn which was the a ...

(Reef islet), * Paximadia (Two small uninhabited islands), * Prasonisi, Gavdou (Islet), * Prasonisi, Rethymno (Islet), * Psarocharako (Rock), * Psyllos (Uninhabited islet), * Schistonisi (Islet), * Strongyli (Uninhabited islet), *

Thetis Thetis (; grc-gre, Θέτις ), is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, or one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. When described as ...

(Islet), * Trachilos (Uninhabited islet), *

Trafos Trafos ( el, Τράφος) is an islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan sea. The islet is in a bay between the capes of Lithino and Kefalas, at Kommos, and close to Gortyn which was the ancient capital of Crete. ...

(Islet), * Treis Volakous (Rocks),

Cyclades islands

The Cyclades islands comprise around 220 islands and islets. The main islands are indicated in bold below. * Agios Nikolaos (Macheres), *

Amorgos Amorgos ( el, Αμοργός, ; ) is the easternmost island of the Cyclades island group and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group in Greece. Along with 16 neighboring islets, the largest of which (by land area) is Nik ...

(), * Ananes, *

Anafi Anafi or Anaphe ( el, Ανάφη; grc, Ἀνάφη) is a Greek island community in the Cyclades. In 2011, it had a population of 271. Its land area is . It lies east of the island of Thíra (Santorini). Anafi is part of the Thira regional un ...

(), *

Andros Andros ( el, Άνδρος, ) is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, about southeast of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . It is for the most part mountainous, with many ...

(), * Aniros (Anydros) * Ano Antikeros * Antimilos, *

Antiparos Antiparos ( ell, Αντίπαρος; grc, Ὠλίαρος, Oliaros; la, Oliarus; is a small island in the southern Aegean, at the heart of the Cyclades, which is less than one nautical mile (1.9 km) from Paros, the port to which it is conne ...

, * Anydros Amorgou * Askania, * Christiana (uninhabited), * Delos, * Despotiko (uninhabited), * Donousa (), * Eschati, * Folegandros (), * Glaronisi, *

Gyaros Gyaros ( el, Γυάρος ), also locally known as Gioura ( el, Γιούρα), is an arid, unpopulated, and uninhabited Greek island in the northern Cyclades near the islands of Andros and Tinos, with an area of . It is a part of the municipality ...

, * Hristiana * Htapodia Mykonou *

Ios iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone; the term also include ...

(), * Iraklia, * Kalogiros *

Kardiotissa Kardiotissa ( el, Καρδιώτισσα), anciently, Lagusa or Lagousa ( grc, Λάγουσα) or Lagussa or Lagoussa (Λαγοῦσσα), is a Greek island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramat ...

, * Kato Antikeros, * Kato Koufonisi, * Kea (), *

Keros Keros ( el, Κέρος; anciently, Keria or Kereia ( grc, Κέρεια) is an uninhabited and unpopulated Greece, Greek island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos Island, Naxos. Administratively it is part of the Communities and Municipali ...

, * Kimolos, * Kitriani, *

Koufonisia Koufonisia ( el, Κουφονήσια) is a former community in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area ...

, * Kramvonisi * Kythnos (), * Liadi Island, * Makares, * Makronissos, * Megalo, *

Milos Milos or Melos (; el, label=Modern Greek, Μήλος, Mílos, ; grc, Μῆλος, Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the Cyclades group. The ''Venus d ...

(), *

Mykonos Mykonos (, ; el, Μύκονος ) is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island has an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 10,134 inhabitants according to th ...

, *

Naxos Naxos (; el, Νάξος, ) is a Greek island and the largest of the Cyclades. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock rich in corundum, which until modern times was one of the best ab ...

(), *

Nea Kameni Nea Kameni is a small uninhabited Greek island of volcanic origin located in the Aegean Sea, within the flooded Santorini caldera. Nea Kameni and the neighbouring small island Palea Kameni (the new and old burnt islands) have formed over the ...

, * Nikouria, * Nisida Prasini, * Ofidousa, * Pahia Anaphis * Palea Kameni, *

Paros Paros (; el, Πάρος; Venetian: ''Paro'') is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of ...

(), * Polyaigos, * Rhineia, * Saliagos, * Santorini (Thera), * Schoinoussa, * Serifopoula, *

Serifos Serifos ( el, Σέριφος, la, Seriphus, also Seriphos; Seriphos: Eth. Seriphios: Serpho) is a Greek island municipality in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos. It is part of the Milos ...

, * Sifnos, * Sikinos, * Skilonisi, * Stroggyli Parou, *

Syros Syros ( el, Σύρος ), also known as Siros or Syra, is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is south-east of Athens. The area of the island is and it has 21,507 inhabitants (2011 census). The largest towns are Ermoupoli, An ...

, *

Therasia Therasia, also known as Thirasía ( el, Θηρασία), is an island in the volcanic island group of Santorini in the Greek Cyclades. It lies north-west of Nea Kameni, a small island formed in recent centuries by volcanic activity and thus mark ...

, *

Tinos Tinos ( el, Τήνος ) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos. It has a land area of and a 2011 census population of 8,636 inhabitants. Tinos ...

(), * Vous, * Vrachoi Bouvais,

Dodecanese islands

There are 164 total Dodecanese Islands of which 26 are inhabited. There are 12 main islands, as listed in bold below: * Agathonissi, * Agioi Theodoroi Halkis * Agreloussa *

Alimia Alimia ( el, Αλιμιά) or Alimnia (Αλιμνιά) is a Greek island of the Aegean Sea, located in the sea area between Rhodes and Halki, the complex of Dodecanese. The surface of the island is and has a coastline of . The island had a smal ...

, * Antitilos * Anydros Patmou * Arefoussa * Arhangelos *

Arkoi Arkoi ( el, Αρκοί; also Arkioi ()) is a small Greek island which is part of the Dodecanese archipelago. It is situated in the eastern Aegean Sea, close to the Turkish Aegean Coast. The island belongs to the municipality of Patmos, and has a ...

, * Armathia, * Astakida *

Astypalaia Astypalaia ( Greek: Αστυπάλαια, ), is a Greek island with 1,334 residents (2011 census). It belongs to the Dodecanese, an archipelago of fifteen major islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea. The island is long, wide at the most, ...

, * Faradonesia * Farmakonisi, * Fokionissia * Fragos * Gaidourosnissi Tilou * Glaros Kinarou *

Gyali Gyali ( el, Γυαλί " glass", also spelled Giali or Yali, pronounced ) is a volcanic Greek island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos ( Kardamaina) and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes a ...

, * Halavra * Halki, * Hiliomodi Patmou * Hondro * Htenies * Imia (uninhabited), * Kalavros Kalymnou *

Kalolimnos Kalolimnos ( el, Καλόλιμνος) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Imia, opposite the coast of Turkey, in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the municipality of Kalymnos. Kalolimnos reaches an altitude ...

, * Kalovolos *

Kalymnos Kalymnos ( el, Κάλυμνος) is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese island chain, between the islands of Kos (south, at a distance of ) and Leros (north, at a distance of less than ): ...

, * Kamilonisi * Kandeloussa * Karavolas Rodhou *

Karpathos Karpathos ( el, Κάρπαθος, ), 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 o ...

(), * Kasos, *

Kastellorizo Kastellorizo or Castellorizo (; el, Καστελλόριζο, Kastellórizo), officially Megisti ( ''Megísti''), is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean.Bertarelli, 131 It lies roughly off the south co ...

(Megisti), *

Kinaros Kinaros ( el, Κίναρος; la, Cinarus or ''Cinara''; it, Zinari), is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, named after the artichoke (kinara) which it produced. It is located west of Kalymnos and Leros and east of Amorgos, 5.5 nautical mi ...

, *

Kos Kos or Cos (; el, Κως ) is a Greek island, 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 36,986 (2021 census), ...

(), * Koubelonisi * Kouloundros * Kouloura Leipson * Kounoupoi * Koutsomytis *

Leipsoi Leipsoi ( el, Λειψοί, also: ''Lipsi''; anciently, Lepsia, grc, Λέψια) is an island south of Samos and to the north of Leros in Greece. It is well serviced with ferries passing between Patmos and Leros and on the main route for ferries ...

, *

Leros Leros ( el, Λέρος) is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies (171 nautical miles) from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 9-hour ferry ride or by a 45-minute flig ...

, *

Levitha Levitha ( el, Λέβιθα), known in classical antiquity as Lebinthus or Lebinthos ( grc, Λέβινθος) is a small Greek island located in the east of the Aegean Sea, between Kinaros and Kalymnos, part of the Dodecanese islands. It is part of ...

, * Makronisi Leipson * Makronissi Kasou * Makry Aspronisi Leipson * Makry Halkis * Marathos, * Marmaras * Mavra Levithas * Megalo Aspronisi Leipson * Megalo Glaronisi * Megalo Sofrano * Mesonisi Seirinas * Mikro Glaronisi, * Mikro Sofrano, * Nerónisi, * Nimos, * Nisídes Adelfoí, * Nisyros, * Paheia Nisyrou *

Patmos Patmos ( el, Πάτμος, ) is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is famous as the location where John of Patmos received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written. One of the northern ...

, * Pergoussa * Piganoussa * Pitta * Plati Kasou * Plati Pserimou * Plati Symis * Pontikoussa * Prasonissi Rodhou * Prasouda *

Pserimos Pserimos ( el, Ψέριμος Δωδεκανήσου) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Kos in front of the coast of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türk ...

, * Ro, *

(), * Safonidi * Saria, * Seirina * Sesklio * Stroggyli * Strongyli Megistis (Easternmost point of Greece), * Strongyli Kritinias * Strongyli Kasou * Symi, * Syrna, *

Telendos Telendos, ( el, Τέλενδος) is a Greek island in the southeastern Aegean Sea, belonging to the Dodecanese. It is approximately off the coast of the larger island of Kalymnos, of which it is administratively a part. It was a member of the D ...

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Tilos Tílos ( el, Τήλος; grc, Τῆλος, Telos) is a small Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, and lies midway between Kos and Rhodes. It has a population of 780 inhabitants (2 ...

, * Tragonisi *

Zaforas Zaforas ( el, Ζαφοράς) is a small Greek island in the southern part of the Dodecanese chain, about south of the island Astypalaia Astypalaia ( Greek: Αστυπάλαια, ), is a Greek island with 1,334 residents (2011 census). It b ...

Euboea and surrounding islands

* Atalanti (uninhabited), *

, * Hersonisi * Kavalliani (uninhabited), *

Lichades Lichades or Lichadonisia ( el, Λιχάδες or Λιχαδονήσια) is an island complex off the north west of Euboea, in the North Euboean Gulf. The islands located opposite Lichada cape in the north-western extreme of Euboea and opposite of ...

, * Lithari * Mandilou * Monoliá, * Megalos Petalios * Petalioi (10 small uninhabited islands/islets), * Stouronisi,

North Aegean Islands

Agios Efstratios Agios Efstratios or Saint Eustratius ( el, Άγιος Ευστράτιος), colloquially Ai Stratis ( el, Άη Στράτης), anciently Halonnesus or Halonnesos ( grc, Ἁλόννησος), is a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea abo ...

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Chios Chios (; el, Χίος, Chíos , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. Chios is notable for its exports of masti ...

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Icaria Icaria, also spelled Ikaria ( el, Ικαρία), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. According to tradition, it derives its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who was be ...

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Lemnos Lemnos or Limnos ( el, Λήμνος; grc, Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The p ...

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Oinousses Oinousses ( el, Οινούσσες, alternative forms: ''Aignousa'' (Αιγνούσα) or ''Egnousa'' (Εγνούσα)) is a barren cluster of 1 larger and 8 smaller islands some off the north-east coast of the Greek island of Chios and west of ...

, * Pasas, * Psara, ** Antipsara, *

Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greece, Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a se ...

, ** Samiopoula, *

Fournoi Korseon Fournoi Korseon ( el, Φούρνοι Κορσέων), more commonly simply Fournoi ( el, Φούρνοι), anciently known as Corsiae or Korsiai ( grc, Κορσίαι), Corseae or Korseai (Κορσεαί), Corsia or Korsia (Κορσία), and Co ...

() ** Agios Minas () ** Thymaina () There are also two North Aegean Islands in the Thracian Sea: *

Samothrace Samothrace (also known as Samothraki, el, Σαμοθράκη, ) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a municipality within the Evros regional unit of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,859 (2011 ...

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Thassos Thasos or Thassos ( el, Θάσος, ''Thásos'') is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. The island has an area of and a population of about 13,000. It forms a separate re ...

Sporades islands

The 30 islands in the Sporades are listed below with the four major islands in bold. The largest Sporades island is Skyros. * Adelfoi Islets, * Agios Georgios Skopelou *

Alonissos Alonnisos ( el, Αλόννησος ), also transliterated as Alonissos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Northern Sporades. It is (2 nm) east of the island of Skopelos. Alonnisos ...

(), * Arkos (Skiathos Municipality), * Aspronisi (Skiathos Municipality) * Dasia * Erinia (Rineia Skyrou), *

Gioura Gioura ( el, Γιούρα), sometimes romanized as Youra, is a Greek island and abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Northern Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos Alonnisos ( el, Αλόννησος ), ...

, * Grammeza, * Korakas Alonissou *

Kyra Panagia Kyra Panagia ( el, Κυρά Παναγιά ) is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos in the Sporades regional unit. The island is also known by the name of Pelagos and rarely Pelagonisi. . A ...

, * Lekhoussa, * Manolas Alonissou * Maragos (Skiathos Municipality) * Peristera, * Piperi, * Polemika Alonissou * Praso Skantzouras *

Psathoura Psathoura ( el, Ψαθούρα) is a Greek island in the Northern Sporades. It is administratively a part of Alonnisos. , it had no resident population. The Psathoura lighthouse, built in 1895, stands at 28.9 metres. It is one of the tallest in th ...

, * Repi, * Sarakino, * Skandili, * Skantzoura, *

Skiathos Skiathos ( el, Σκιάθος, , ; grc, Σκίαθος, ; and ) is a small Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea. Skiathos is the westernmost island in the Northern Sporades group, east of the Pelion peninsula in Magnesia on the mainland ...

( in Municipality), *

Skopelos Skopelos ( el, Σκόπελος, ) is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group, which lies east of the Pelion peninsula on the mainland and north of the island ...

(), * Skyropoula (Skyros Municipality), *

Skyros Skyros ( el, Σκύρος, ), in some historical contexts Latinized Scyros ( grc, Σκῦρος, ), is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the ...

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Tsougria Tsougria, Tsoungria, or Tsougkria ( el, Τσουγκριά, ) is a Greek island in the western part of the Sporades. , it had no resident population, as it is a protected natural habitat. It is administratively part of the municipality of Skiatho ...

(Skiathos Municipality), * Troulonisi (Skiathos Municipality) * Tsougriaki (Skiathos Municipality) * Valaxa,

Ionian Sea islands

Islands in the Ionian Sea are listed below. The seven largest and most popular islands are listed in bold.Kruse, ''Hellas'', vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 455, seq.; Leake, ''Northern Greece'', vol. iii. pp. 30, seq., 50, seq.; Mure, ''Tour in Greece'', vol. i. p. 104. *

Antikythera Antikythera or Anticythera ( ) is a Greek island lying on the edge of the Aegean Sea, between Crete and Peloponnese. In antiquity the island was known as (). Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Kythira isl ...

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Antipaxos Antipaxos ( el, Αντίπαξος, ) is a small island (5 km²) in Greece, about to the south of Paxos. It is administratively part of the municipality of Paxoi in Corfu regional unit in western Greece. , the resident population of the ...

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Arkoudi Arkoudi ( Greek: Αρκούδι, meaning bear) is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is situated south of Lefkada, northeast of Ithaca and southwest of Meganisi Meganisi (Greek: Μεγανήσι, literally "big island") is a Gree ...

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Atokos Atokos ( el, Άτοκος) is a small, uninhabited Greek island in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania and is one of the most westerly and perhaps remotest of the Echinades Islands. , it had no resident population. It lies northeast of It ...

, * Cephalonia, * Corfu, * Diaplo, *

Echinades The Echinades (; Greek: per Herodotus, Thucydides, and Strabo, per Homer Echinae (, it, Curzolari) are a group of islands in the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Acarnania, Greece. The archipelago is commonly subdivided into three groups: the Drakon ...

** Apasa, ** Drakonera, ** Filippos, ** Girovaris or Gkravaris, ** Kalogiros, ** Karlonisi, ** Kouneli or Makropoula, ** Lamprinos, ** Makri, ** Modio or Modi, **

Oxeia Oxeia ( el, Οξεία) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. , it had no resident population. It is the chief island in the southern group (the Ouniades) of the Echinades, part of the Ionian Islands. Oxeia possesses the highest point in the E ...

, ** Petalas, ** Pistros, ** Pontikos, ** Praso, ** Provati, ** Sofía, **

Soros George Soros ( name written in eastern order), (born György Schwartz, August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. , he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, Note that this site is updated daily. having donated mo ...

, ** Tsakalonisi, **

Vromonas Vromonas ( el, Βρομώνας) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Islands located east of the island of Ithaca (island), Ithaca. , it had no resident population. References External linksVromonas on GTP Travel Pages
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Elafonissos Elafonisos ( el, Ελαφόνησος) is a small Greek island between the Peloponnese and Kythira. It lies off the coast of Cape Malea and Vatika. The area of the island is . Overview The population is between 300 and 350 during the winter b ...

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Ereikoussa Ereikoussa ( gr, Ερεικούσσα, it, Merlera) is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. It is one of the Diapontian Islands; an island complex to the northwest of Corfu. Since the 2019 local government reform it ...

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Ithaca Ithaca most commonly refers to: *Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey'' *Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca *Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College Ithaca, Ithaka ...

, * Kalamos, *

Kastos Kastos ( el, Καστός) is a Greek island and a former community east of the island of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lefkada, of which it is a municipal unit. Until 1974, ...

, * Kravia, *

Kythira Kythira (, ; el, Κύθηρα, , also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands ...

, * Kythros, *

Lazaretto A lazaretto or lazaret (from it, lazzaretto a diminutive form of the Italian word for beggar cf. lazzaro) is a quarantine station for maritime travellers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or mainland buildings ...

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Lefkada Lefkada ( el, Λευκάδα, ''Lefkáda'', ), also known as Lefkas or Leukas ( Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Λευκάς, ''Leukás'', modern pronunciation ''Lefkás'') and Leucadia, is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of G ...

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Madouri Madouri ( el, Μαδουρή) is a small uninhabited island in the Ionian Sea, near Lefkada, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Ellomenos.Mathraki Mathraki ( el, Μαθράκι, grc, Μαθράκιον) is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. It is one of the Diapontian Islands. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Central Cor ...

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Meganisi Meganisi (Greek: Μεγανήσι, literally "big island") is a Greek island and municipality immediately to the east-southeast of the island of Lefkada. The municipality includes the offshore islands of Skorpios (pop. 2 persons) and Sparti. The ...

, * Modia Islets, * Omfori (Uninhabited, private), *

Othonoi Othonoi ( el, Οθωνοί, also rendered as Othoni, grc, Ὀθρωνός , translit=Othrōnós) is a small and inhabited Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece. Othonoi is the largest ...

(westernmost point of Greece), * Paxi, * Provati, * Proti, *

Sapientza Sapientza or Sapienza ( el, Σαπιέντζα) Σαπιέντζα is a Greek island off the southern coast of the Peloponnese, near the city of Methóni. It is administratively part of the municipality of Pylos-Nestor, in Messenia. The 2011 cens ...

, * Schiza (Uninhabited), *

Skorpios Skorpios or Scorpios ( el, Σκορπιός, ) is a private island in the Ionian Sea off the western coast of Greece and just to the east of the island of Lefkada. The 2011 census reported a population of five inhabitants. Administratively it ...

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Skorpidi Scorpidi Lefkada (Greek: Σκορπίδι Λευκάδας) is a small island in the Ionian Sea just north of Scorpio. It belongs to the Televoes Islands cluster and the Prigiponisia (Lefkada) cluster. The island is now privately owned and ...

(Private), * Sparti Lefkados, *

Sphacteria Sphacteria ( el, Σφακτηρία - ''Sfaktiria'') also known as Sphagia (Σφαγία) is a small island at the entrance to the bay of Pylos in the Peloponnese, Greece. It was the site of three battles: *the 425 BC Battle of Sphacteria in the ...

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Strofades Strofades ( el, Στροφάδες; also called Strofadia, , or Stromphides, ) is a group of two small Greek islands in the Ionian Islands. They lie about south-southeast of the island of Zakynthos. Administratively they are part of the Municip ...

, * Thilia, *

Vido Vido ( el, Βίδο) is an island of the Ionian Islands group of Greece. It is a small island (less than a kilometer in diameter) at the mouth of the port of Corfu. History The island was known to the ancients as Ptychia ( grc, Πτυχία ...

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Zakynthos Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; el, Ζάκυνθος, Zákynthos ; it, Zacinto ) or Zante (, , ; el, Τζάντε, Tzánte ; from the Venetian form) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Z ...

Islets close to mainland

The following islands are close to the mainland and not part of a sea: * Alatas Trikeriou, * Ammouliani (Chalkidiki), * Antitrikeri (Thessaly) * Kelyfos, *

Paleo Trikeri Paleo Trikeri ( gr, Παλαιό Τρίκερι) or Old Trikeri, also known as Trikeri Island, is a small island in the Pagasitic Gulf off the end of the Pelion peninsula in Thessaly, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Trikeri within the ...

(Thessaly), * Trizonia island (Central Greece),

Islands not in the sea

Lake and river islands

* Agios Achilleios (

Small Prespa Lake Small Prespa Lake ( el, Λίμνη Μικρή Πρέσπα, ''Limni Mikri Prespa''; sq, Prespa e Vogël; mk, Мало Преспанско Езеро, ''Malo Prespansko Ezero'') is a lake shared between Greece (138 km² drainage area; 42.5 ...

), *

Ioannina Island Ioannina Island ( el, Νήσος Ιωαννίνων) is an island in the Lake of Ioannina, Epirus, Greece, a municipal unit of the municipality of Ioannina. Its area is 0.2 km2, with biggest length 800 meters and biggest width 500 meters. Unt ...

( Lake Pamvotida), * Vidronisi (

), * Anonymous islet (Limnothálassa Pápas lagoon, Western Achaia),

Islands in an island

* Marathi Island (Marathi Lake (reservoir) in

Lagoon islands

* Aitoliko Lagoon **

Aitoliko Aitoliko (Greek: Αιτωλικό) is a town and a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Messolonghi, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit ...

, * Missolonghi Lagoon ** Dolmas ** Kleisova, ** Komma, ** Prokopanistos ** Schinias ** Tourlida, ** Vasiladi,

Notes

References

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Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World The ''Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World'' is a large-format English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard J. A. Talbert. The time period depicted is roughly from archaic Greek civilization (pre- ...

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Islands of Greece, List Of Geography of Greece *

Lists of landforms of Greece

Islands of Greece by size

Islands of Greece by population

Islands of the Aegean Sea

Argo-Saronic Islands

Cretan islands

Cretan islands of the Aegean Sea

Cretan islands of the Libyan Sea

Cyclades islands

Dodecanese islands

Euboea and surrounding islands

North Aegean Islands

Sporades islands

Ionian Sea islands

Islets close to mainland

Islands not in the sea

Lake and river islands

Islands in an island

Lagoon islands

See also

Notes

References

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