List of islands of Greece

Greece has many islands, 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 area is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea. The second largest island is Euboea, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek Islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, 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; the Cyclades, 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, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey; the Sporades, 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 in 1893, but is rarely considered to be an island.

Islands of Greece by size[edit]

The following are the largest Greek islands listed by surface area. The table includes all islands of over 37 square miles (96 km²).

	Island	Area (sq. miles)	(km2)	Cluster
1	Crete	3,219	8,336
2	Euboea	1,417	3,670
3	Lesbos	630	1,633	North Aegean Islands
4	Rhodes	541	1,401	Dodecanese
5	Chíos	325	842.3	North Aegean Islands
6	Kefalonia	302	781	Ionian Islands
7	Corfu	229	592.9	Ionian Islands
8	Lemnos	184	477.6	North Aegean Islands
9	Samos	184	477.4	North Aegean Islands
10	Naxos	166	429.8	Cyclades
11	Zakynthos	157	406	Ionian Islands
12	Thassos	147	380.1	North Aegean Islands
13	Andros	147	380.0	Cyclades
14	Lefkada	117	303	Ionian Islands
15	Karpathos	116	300	Dodecanese
16	Kos	112	290.3	Dodecanese
17	Kythira	108	279.6	Ionian Islands
18	Icaria	99	255	North Aegean Islands
19	Skyros	81	209	Northern Sporades
20	Paros	75	195	Cyclades
21	Tinos	75	194	Cyclades
22	Samothrace	69	178	North Aegean Islands
23	Milos	58	151	Cyclades
24	Kea	51	132	Cyclades
25	Amorgos	47	121	Cyclades
26	Kalymnos	42.5	110	Dodecanese
27	Ios	41.7	108	Cyclades
28	Kythnos	38.4	99.4	Cyclades
29	Astypalaia	37.2	96.4	Dodecanese
30	Ithaca	37.1	96.2	Ionian Islands

Saronic Islands[edit]

Inhabited islands[edit]

Uninhabited islands[edit]

This list includes islands that may have been inhabited in the past but are now uninhabited:

Northern Sporades[edit]

Main islands[edit]

Other islands and islets[edit]

Ionian Islands[edit]

Main seven[edit]

Others[edit]

Dodecanese Islands[edit]

164 total islands of which 26 are inhabited.

Main 12 islands[edit]

Minor islands[edit]

Aegean Islands[edit]

Of the Aegean Sea[edit]

Of the Thracian Sea[edit]

• Samothraki
• Thasos

The Cyclades[edit]

Cyclades comprise around 220 islands and islets. For a complete list, with coordinates, see reference.^[4]

Main islands[edit]

Other islands and islets[edit]

Cretan islands[edit]

This is a list of islands, islets, and rocks that surround the island of Crete.

Of the Aegean Sea[edit]

Of the Libyan Sea[edit]

Euboea and surrounding islands[edit]

Islands close to Athens[edit]

Islets close to mainland[edit]

• Pera Island (Arta, Epirus, Koronisia Artas)

Lake and river islands[edit]

Islands in an island[edit]

• Marathi Island (Marathi Lake (reservoir) in Mykonos, 37°28’00.8″N, 25°21’31.9″E)

Lagoon islands[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of Aegean Islands
• List of islands
• List of islands in the Mediterranean