Euboea () is one of the

regional units of Greece The 74 regional units of Greece (, ; singular , ) are the country's third-level administrative units (counting decentralized administrations as first-level). They are subdivisions of the country's 13 regions, and are further divided into munici ...

. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It consists of the islands of

Euboea Euboea ( ; , ), also known by its modern spelling Evia ( ; , ), is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete, and the sixth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by ...

and

Skyros Skyros (, ), in some historical contexts Romanization of Greek, Latinized Scyros (, ), is an island in Greece. It is the southernmost island of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC, the island was known as ...

, as well as a 260 km² area on the Greek mainland. Its land area is 4,167.449 km², whereas the total land area of the municipalities actually on the island Euboea is 3,684.848 km², which includes that of numerous small offshore islets ( Petalies Islands) near Euboea's southern tip.

Administration

The Euboea regional unit is subdivided into 8 municipalities, numbered in the picture in the infobox. These are: *

Chalcis Chalcis (; Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: , ), also called Chalkida or Halkida (Modern Greek: , ), is the chief city of the island of Euboea or Evia in Greece, situated on the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from ...

(''Chalkida'', 1) *

Dirfys-Messapia Dirfys-Messapia () is a municipality in the Euboea regional unit, Central Greece, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land border ...

(2) *

Eretria Eretria (; , , , , literally 'city of the rowers') is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important Greek polis in the 6th and 5th century BC, mentioned by many famous writers ...

(3) * Istiaia-Aidipsos (4) * Karystos (5) * Kymi-Aliveri (6) * Mantoudi-Limni-Agia Anna (7) *

(8)

Prefecture

As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the former Euboea Prefecture () was transformed into a regional unit within the Central Greece region, without any change in boundaries. At the same time, the municipalities were reorganised, according to the table below. ''Note'': the former municipalities of Anthidona and Avlida are on the mainland, attached to the northeastern part of

Boeotia Boeotia ( ), sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (; modern Greek, modern: ; ancient Greek, ancient: ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Central Greece (adm ...

. Skyros is an island by itself.

Provinces

* Chalkida Province - Chalkida * Istiaeotis Province - Istiaia * Karystiaea Province - Karystos ''Note'': Provinces no longer hold any legal status in

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Population

References

{{Authority control Prefectures of Greece 1833 establishments in Greece Regional units of Central Greece