Naxos and Lesser Cyclades () is a municipality in the

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 ...

regional unit,

South Aegean The South Aegean (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It consists of the Cyclades and Dodecanese island groups in the central and southeastern Aegean Sea. Administration The South Aegean region was established in ...

region,

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 ...

. The seat of the municipality is the town

Naxos (city) Naxos (), commonly referred to as ''Chora'' (Greek language, Greek: Χώρα, meaning 'town'), is a city and a former Municipalities and communities of Greece, municipality on the island of Naxos, in the Cyclades, Greece. The community has 8,897 ...

. The municipality consists of the Cycladic island of

and the islands of the Lesser Cyclades: Donousa, Irakleia, Koufonisia, Schoinoussa and several smaller islands. The municipality has an area of 495.867 km².

Municipality

The municipality Naxos and Lesser Cyclades was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 6 former municipalities, that became municipal units: * Donousa * Drymalia * Irakleia * Koufonisia *

* Schoinoussa

References

Municipalities of the South Aegean Cyclades Populated places in Naxos (regional unit) {{SouthAegean-geo-stub