Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

has many

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

s, 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 Crete ( ; , Modern Greek, Modern: , Ancient Greek, Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the List of islands by area, 88th largest island in the world and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, fifth la ...

, located at the southern edge of the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn con ...

. The second largest island in area is

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 ...

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

Euripus Strait The Euripus Strait ( ) 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 point. The strait is ...

, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands,

Lesbos Lesbos or Lesvos ( ) 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 and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, eighth largest ...

and

Rhodes Rhodes (; ) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, the island forms a separ ...

, 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 ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

; the

Cyclades The CYCLADES computer network () was a French research network created in the early 1970s. It was one of the pioneering networks experimenting with the concept of packet switching and, unlike the ARPANET, was explicitly designed to facilitate i ...

, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea; the North Aegean islands, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey; the

Dodecanese The Dodecanese (, ; , ''Dodekánisa'' , ) are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited. This island group generally define ...

, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey; the

Sporades The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea,"Skyros - Britannica Concise" (description), Britannica Concise, 2006, webpageEB-Skyrosnotes "including Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros, and Al ...

, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea; and the

Ionian Islands The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: , ; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: , ) are a archipelago, group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese ("Seven Islands"; , ''Heptanēsa'' or , ''Heptanē ...

, chiefly located to the west of the mainland in the

Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea (, ; or , ; , ) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, and the Salento peninsula to the west, ...

. Crete with its surrounding islets and Euboea are traditionally excluded from this grouping. This article excludes the

Peloponnese The Peloponnese ( ), Peloponnesus ( ; , ) or Morea (; ) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridg ...

, which has technically been an island since the construction of the

Corinth Canal The Corinth Canal () is a canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Completed in 1893, it cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and "separates" the Peloponnese peninsula fro ...

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

Islands of Greece by size

The following are the 50 largest Greek islands listed by surface area.

Islands of Greece by population

Islands of the Aegean Sea

Argo-Saronic Islands

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 C ...

. 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 (; ; ) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina (mythology), Aegina, the mother of the mythological hero Aeacus, who was born on the island and became its king. ...

(), * Agios Georgios (uninhabited), * Agios Georgios Salaminos (St. George's Island, uninhabited), Google Maps * Agios Ioannis Diaporion (uninhabited) * Agios Thomas Diaporion (uninhabited), * Agistri (), * Alexandros Hydras, * Atalanti Island, * Dia (uninhabited) * Dokos (), * 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 (; ) is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south of the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surf ...

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

Spetses Spetses (, "Pityussa") is an island in Attica, Greece. It is counted among the Saronic Islands group. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolis and Corinthia Prefecture, which is now split into Argolis and Corinthia. In ancient ...

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

Cretan island

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 (; ; ) is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea north of the North Africa, African coast of Ancient Libya, ancient ''Libya'', i.e. Cyrenaica, and Marmarica (the coast of what is now Butnan District, eastern Libya and Matrouh Gov ...

Cretan islands of the Aegean Sea

20090620 Spinalogka Elounta panoramic view from the mountain

* Afendis Christos, *

Agia Varvara Agia Varvara (, meaning Saint Barbara) is a suburban town in the western part of the Athens agglomeration in Attica, Greece and a municipality in the West Athens regional unit. Geography And Demographics Agia Varvara is situated east of the ...

, * Agioi Apostoloi, * Agioi Pandes, *

Agioi Theodoroi Agioi Theodoroi () 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 municipal unit. The municipal u ...

, * Agios Nikolaos, * Agriomandra, * Anavatis, * Arnaouti, * Avgo (uninhabited islet), *

, * Daskaleia (uninhabited islet), * Dia (Zeus, uninhabited), * Diapori, * Dionysades (group of islands), ** Gianysada, ** Dragonada, ** Paximada, ** Paximadaki, * Elasa, * Ftena Trachylia, * Glaronisi, * Gramvoussa, ** 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, * Kyriamadi (Peninsula), * Lazaretta, * Leon (Islet), * Mavros (Uninhabited islet), * Megatzedes (Uninhabited islet), *

Mochlos Mochlos () is a small, uninhabited 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, but was attached to the mainland ...

, * Nikolos, *

Palaiosouda Palaiosouda (, "old Souda"), also known as Marati (), is an islet located south of the town of Marati, close to Souda Bay in Crete Crete ( ; , Modern Greek, Modern: , Ancient Greek, Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Gre ...

(Islet), *

Peristeri Peristeri (Greek language, Greek: Περιστέρι, meaning "pigeon/dove" in Greek) is a city and a suburban municipality in the western part of the Athens#Athens Urban Area, Athens agglomeration, Greece. With 133,630 inhabitants (2021 census), ...

(Islet), * Peristerovrachoi (Uninhabited rocks), * Petalida (Islet), * Petalouda (Uninhabited islet), * Pontikaki (Uninhabited islet), * Pondikonisi (Uninhabited islet), * Praso Kissamou (Islet), * Prosfora (Uninhabited islet), * Pseira, * Sideros (Uninhabited rock), *

Souda Souda () 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 . It is an imp ...

(Islet), * Valenti (Rock), * Vryonisi (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 religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Artemis (; ) is the goddess of the hunting, hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, transitions, nature, vegetation, childbirth, Kourotrophos, care of children, and chastity. In later tim ...

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

Gavdos Gavdos ( ) 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 part of the forme ...

(Southernmost point of Greece), * Koufonisi (Lefki) (Uninhabited islet), * Loutro (Rocky islet), * Makroulo (Uninhabited islet), * Marmaro (Uninhabited islet), * Mavros Volakas (Large rock), * Megalonisi (Uninhabited islet), * Mikronisi (Islet), * Papadoplaka (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 ( , or ; ) is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. When described as a Nereid in Cl ...

(Islet), * Trachilos (Uninhabited islet), * Trafos (Islet), * Treis Volakous (Rocks),

Cyclades islands

The Cyclades islands comprise around 220 islands and islets. The main islands are indicated in bold below. * Ágios Nikólaos (Máchaires), * Prasíni (Agía Paraskeví), * Strongyló (Strongylí), *

Amorgos Amorgos (, ; ) is the easternmost island of the Cyclades island group and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group in Greece. Along with 16 neighbouring islets, the largest of which (by land area) is Nikouria Island, it compr ...

(), * Ananes, * Anafi (), *

Andros Andros (, ) is the northernmost island of the Greece, 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 fruitful and ...

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

Antimilos Antimilos (; ) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group, northwest of Milos. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Milos. Antimilos is an uninhabited mass of trachyte (671 m height), often called Erimomilos (Desert Milos). It is a v ...

, * Antiparos, * Anydros Amorgou * Askania, * Christiana (uninhabited), *

Delos Delos (; ; ''Dêlos'', ''Dâlos''), is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago. Though only in area, it is one of the most important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in Greece. ...

, * Despotiko (uninhabited), * Donousa (), *

Eschati Eschati (Εσχάτη) (meaning the last one) is an uninhabited reef which is part of the volcanic Christiana Islands group, lying to southwest of Santorini, in the Cyclades island group in Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, ...

, * Folegandros (), * Glaronisi, *

Gyaros Gyaros ( ), also locally known as Gioura (), 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 of Ano Syros, which lies primari ...

, * Hristiana * Htapodia Mykonou *

Ios Ios, Io or Nio (, ; ; locally Nios, Νιός) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides. It is situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini. It is about long an ...

(), * Iraklia, * Kalogiros * Kardiotissa, * Kato Antikeros, * Kato Koufonisi, *

Kea The kea ( ; ; ''Nestor notabilis'') is a species of large parrot in the Family (biology), family Strigopidae that is endemic to the forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand. About long, it is mostly olive-green, with br ...

(), *

Keros Keros (; anciently, Keria or Kereia ()) is an uninhabited and unpopulated Greek island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos. Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisia. It has an area of and its highest point is . It was ...

, * Kimolos, * Kitriani, * Koufonisia, * Kramvonisi *

Kythnos Kythnos (, ), commonly called Thermia (), is a Greek island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea (island), Kea and Serifos. It is from the Athenian harbor of Piraeus. The municipality Kythn ...

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

Milos Milos or Melos (; , ; ) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. It is the southwestern-most island of the Cyclades group. The ''Venus de Milo'' (now in the Louvre), the ''Poseidon of Melos'' (now in the ...

(), *

Mykonos Mykonos (, ; ) 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. At the 2021 census, there were 10,704 inhabitants, most of ...

, *

Naxos Naxos (; , ) is a Greek island belonging to the Cyclades island group. It is the largest island in the group. It was an important centre during the Bronze Age Cycladic Culture and in the Ancient Greek Archaic Period. The island is famous as ...

(), * Nea Kameni, * Nikouria, * Nisida Prasini, * Ofidousa, * Pahia Anaphis * Palea Kameni, *

Paros Paros (; ; ) is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea. Part of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos (island), Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Co ...

(), * Polyaigos, * Rhineia, *

Saliagos Saliagos () is an islet in the Greece, Greek island group of Cyclades. It is the first early farming site and one of the oldest settlements of the Cycladic culture.E. H. Cline (ed.), ''The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean'', , Jan. 2012. ...

, *

Santorini Santorini (, ), officially Thira (, ) or Thera, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from the mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southern ...

(Thera), * Schoinoussa, *

Serifopoula Serifopoula () is a Greek island in the Cyclades The CYCLADES computer network () was a French research network created in the early 1970s. It was one of the pioneering networks experimenting with the concept of packet switching and, unlike t ...

, *

Serifos Serifos () is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos. It is part of the Milos regional unit. The area is and the population was 1,241 at the 2021 census. It is located about ...

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

Syros Syros ( ), also known as Siros or Syra, is a Greece, Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is south-east of Athens. The area of the island is and at the 2021 census it had 21,124 inhabitants. The largest towns are Ermoupoli, Ano S ...

, * Therasia, *

Tinos Tinos ( ) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It forms part of the Cyclades archipelago. The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos. It has a land area of and a 2021 census population of 8,934 inhabitants. Tinos is famous amo ...

(), * Vous, * Vrachoi Bouvais,

Dodecanese islands

There are 164 total Dodecanese Islands of which 26 are inhabited. There are 12 main islands, listed in bold below: * Agathonissi, * Agioi Theodoroi Halkis * * Agreloussa * Alimia, * Antitilos * Anydros Patmou * Arefoussa * Arhangelos * Arkoi, * Armathia, * Astakida *

Astypalaia Astypalaia (Greek Language, Greek: Αστυπάλαια, ), is a Greece, Greek island with 1,334 residents (2011 census). It belongs to the Dodecanese, an archipelago of fifteen major islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea. However, many scholars ...

, * Faradonesia * Farmakonisi, * Fokionissia * Fragos * Gaidourosnissi Tilou * Glaros Kinarou * Gyali, * Halavra * Halki, * Hiliomodi Patmou * Hondro * Htenies * Imia (uninhabited), * Kalavros Kalymnou * Kalolimnos, * Kalovolos *

Kalymnos Kalymnos (; ) 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 ): the latter is lin ...

, * Kamilonisi * Kandeloussa * Karavolas Rodhou *

Karpathos Karpathos (, ), 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 ...

(), *

Kasos Kasos (; , ), also Casos, is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of the regional unit Karpathos-Kasos. The capital of the island is Fri. , its population was 1,223. ...

, *

Kastellorizo Kastellorizo or Castellorizo ( ; ), officially Megisti (), is a Greek island and municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean.Bertarelli, 131 It lies roughly off the south coast of Turkey, about southeast of Athens and east of R ...

(Megisti), * Kinaros, *

Kos Kos or Cos (; ) 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, after Rhodes and Karpathos; it has a population of 37,089 (2021 census), making ...

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

Leros Leros (), also called Lero (from the Italian language), is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by a nine-hour ferry ride or by a 45-min ...

, * Levitha, * 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 (, ) is a Greece, Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is famous as the location where, according to Christian belief, John of Patmos received the vision found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written. ...

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

(), * Safonidi *

Saria Saria may refer to: * SARIA, a food company * Saria, Burkina Faso * Saria (mountain), an international mountain in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range * Saria, a heroine protagonist of Twinkle Tale * Saria (The Legend of Zelda), Saria (''The Legend of ...

, * Seirina * Sesklio * * Strongyli Megistis (Easternmost point of Greece), * Strongyli Kritinias * Strongyli Kasou *

Symi Symi, also transliterated as Syme or Simi (), is a Greece, Greek island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality. It is mountainous and has the harbour town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller ...

, * Syrna, * Telendos, *

Tilos Tílos (; ) 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. In 2021, the island had a population of 746 people. Along with the uninhabited ...

, * Tragonisi * Zaforas,

Euboea and surrounding islands

Atalanti Atalanti ( ''Atalantē'') is the second largest town in Phthiotis, Greece. It is located southeast of Lamia (city), Lamia, north of Livadeia and northwest of Chalcis. In 2011, it was incorporated into the municipality of Lokroi (mu ...

(uninhabited), *

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

North Aegean islands

* Agios Efstratios, *

Chios Chios (; , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greece, Greek list of islands of Greece, island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea, and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, tenth largest island in the Medi ...

, *

Icaria Ikaria, also spelled Icaria (; ), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. Administratively, Ikaria forms a separate municipality within the Ikaria regional unit, which is part of the North Ae ...

, *

Lemnos Lemnos ( ) or Limnos ( ) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos (regional unit), Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean modern regions of Greece ...

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

Samos Samos (, also ; , ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese archipelago, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the Mycale Strait. It is also a separate reg ...

, ** Samiopoula, *

Fournoi Korseon Fournoi Korseon (), more commonly simplified as Fournoi (), anciently known as Corsiae or Korsiai (), Corseae or Korseai (Κορσεαί), Corsia or Korsia (Κορσία), and Corassiae (Κορασσίαι), form a complex or archipelago of sm ...

() **

Agios Minas Agios Minas () is a former municipality on the island of Chios, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chios, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located on the central east coast of the isla ...

() ** Thymaina () There are also two North Aegean islands in the

Thracian Sea The Thracian Sea (, ''Thrakiko Pelagos''; , "Тракийско море" - Bulgarian language) is the northernmost part of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded by Macedonia and Thrace as well as northwestern Turkey. It connects to the Black Sea through ...

: *

Samothrace Samothrace (also known as Samothraki; , ) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a municipality within the Evros regional unit of Thrace. The island is long, in size and has a population of 2,596 (2021 census). Its main industries ...

, *

Thassos Thasos or Thassos (, ''Thásos'') is a List of islands of Greece, Greek island in the North Aegean, North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area. The island has an area of 380 km2 and a population of abo ...

Sporades islands

The 30 islands in the Sporades are listed below, with the four major islands in bold. The largest Sporades island is

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 ...

. * Adelfoi Islets, * Agios Georgios Skopelou * Alonissos (), * Arkos (Skiathos Municipality), * Aspronisi (Skiathos Municipality) * Dasia * Erinia (Rineia Skyrou), *

Gioura Gioura ( ), sometimes romanized as Youra, is a Greek island and abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Northern Sporades archipelago. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos. The island's name comes from the ancient ...

, * Grammeza, * Korakas Alonissou *

Kyra Panagia Kyra Panagia ( ) is a Greek island in the Sporades archipelago, in the northern Aegean Sea. 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 Pel ...

, * Lekhoussa, * Manolas Alonissou * Maragos (Skiathos Municipality) *

Peristera Peristera (, feminine form of pigeon), also Aspro, locally Xero (meaning dry), Eudemia in antiquity, is a Greece, Greek island in the Sporades, in the Aegean Sea. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos and is also directly ...

, * Piperi, * Polemika Alonissou * Praso Skantzouras *

Psathoura Psathoura ( ) is a Greek island in the Northern Sporades. It is administratively a part of Alonnisos Alonnisos ( ), also transliterated as Alonissos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the ...

, * Repi, * Sarakino, * Skandili, *

Skantzoura Skantzoura () is an island in the Sporades archipelago, along the east coast of Greece. The island is located southeast of the larger island of Alonnisos (to which it belongs administratively) and northwest of the island of Skyros Skyros (, ...

, * Skiathos ( in Municipality), *

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

(), * Skyropoula (Skyros Municipality), *

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

Ionian Sea islands

Islands in the

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

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Antipaxos Antipaxos (, ) is a small island (5 km2) in Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest ...

, * Arkoudi, * Atokos, *

Cephalonia Kefalonia or Cephalonia (), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallonia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th-largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios. It is also a separate regio ...

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Corfu Corfu ( , ) or Kerkyra (, ) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands; including its Greek islands, small satellite islands, it forms the margin of Greece's northwestern frontier. The island is part of the Corfu (regio ...

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

Oxeia Oxeia () 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 Echinades, . It ...

, ** Petalas, ** Pistros, ** Pontikos, ** Praso, ** Provati, ** Sofía, ** Soros, ** Tsakalonisi, ** Vromonas, * Elafonissos, *

Ereikoussa Ereikoussa () 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 is part of the municipality of Central ...

, * Ithaca, *

Kalamos Kalamos (; ) is a Greek mythological figure. He is son of Maiandros, the god of the Maeander river. Mythology A story in Nonnus's ''Dionysiaca'' tells about the love of two youths, Kalamos and Karpos. Karpos drowned in the Meander river whil ...

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Kastos Kastos () 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, when it became pa ...

, * Kravia, *

Kythira Kythira ( ; ), 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, although it is dist ...

, * Kythros, *

Lazaretto A lazaretto ( ), sometimes lazaret or lazarette ( ), is a quarantine station for maritime travelers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or mainland buildings. In some lazarets, postal items were also disinfected, usu ...

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

, * Madouri (Uninhabited), * Makropoúla, *

Mathraki Mathraki (, ) is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands (region), Ionian Islands, Greece. It is one of the Diapontian Islands. Since the 2019 local government reform, it is part of the municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontian Is ...

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Meganisi Meganisi (Greek language, Greek: Μεγανήσι, literally "big island") is a Greece, Greek island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality immediately to the east-southeast of the island of Lefkada. The municipality includes t ...

, * Modia Islets, * Nisída Ágios Nikólaos, * Omfori (Uninhabited, private), *

Othonoi Othonoi (, also rendered as Othoni, ) is a small inhabited list of Greek islands, Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece. Othonoi is the largest and most populated of the Diapontian Isl ...

(westernmost point of Greece), *

Paxi Paxos () is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, lying just south of Corfu. As a group with the nearby island of Antipaxos and adjoining islets, it is also called by the plural form Paxi or Paxoi (, pronounced in English and in Greek). The main t ...

, * Provati, * Proti, *

Sapientza Sapientza or Sapienza () 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 census reported a population of two inhabitan ...

, *

Schiza Schiza () is a Greek island off the southwestern coast of the Peloponnese. According to 2011 census, the island is uninhabited. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Pylos-Nestor in Messenia. It is the largest island of the Messenian ...

(Uninhabited), *

Skorpios Skorpios or Scorpios (, ) 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 is part of the munici ...

, * Skorpidi (Private), * Sparti Lefkados, *

Sphacteria Sphacteria ( - ''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 Peloponnesian war. *th ...

, * Strofades, * Thilia, * Vido, *

Zakynthos Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; ; ) or Zante (, , ; ; from the Venetian language, Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greece, Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands, with an are ...

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

Islands not in the sea

Lake and river islands

* Agios Achilleios (

Small Prespa Lake Small Prespa Lake (, ''Limni Mikri Prespa''; ; , ''Malo Prespansko Ezero'') is a lake shared between Greece (138 km² drainage area; 42.5 km² surface area) and Albania (51 km² drainage area; 4.3 km² surface area). It is the ...

), * Ioannina Island ( 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, * 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 Talbert, Richard J. A. Talbert. The time period depicted is roughly from Archaic Greece, ...

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* {{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 island

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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