List of islands of Greece
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Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

Rep. Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...


Greece
Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

Kavala
Kavala
Kavala , is the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala peripheral unit. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos...

Thasos
Thasos
Thasos or Thassos is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river Nestos but geographically part of Macedonia. It is the northernmost Greek island, and 12th largest by area...

Alexandroupoli
Alexandroupoli
Alexandroupoli , is a city of Greece and the capital of the Evros peripheral unit in Thrace. Named after King Alexander, it is an important port and commercial center of northeastern Greece.-Name:...

Samothrace
Samothrace
Samothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing municipality within the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 . Its main industries are fishing and tourism. Resources on the island includes granite and...

Corfu
Corfu
Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...

Igoumenitsa
Igoumenitsa
Igoumenitsa , is a coastal city in northwestern Greece. It is the capital of the regional unit Thesprotia. Its original ancient name used to be Titani....

Larissa
Larissa
Larissa is the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens...

Volos
Volos
Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

Ioannina
Ioannina
Ioannina , often called Jannena within Greece, is the largest city of Epirus, north-western Greece, with a population of 70,203 . It lies at an elevation of approximately 500 meters above sea level, on the western shore of lake Pamvotis . It is located within the Ioannina municipality, and is the...

Chalcis
Chalcis
Chalcis or Chalkida , the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Evripos at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from antiquity and is derived from the Greek χαλκός , though there is no trace of any mines in the area...

Patras
Patras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

Corinth
Corinth
Corinth is a city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corinth, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...

Nafplion
Nafplion
Nafplio is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. The town was the first capital of modern Greece, from the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821 until 1834. Nafplio is now the capital of the peripheral unit of...

Sparta
Sparta
Sparta or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. It emerged as a political entity around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population. From c...

Areopoli
Areopoli
Areopoli is a town on the Mani Peninsula, Laconia, Greece. The word Areopoli means "city of Ares", the ancient Greek god of war. It was the seat of Oitylo municipality. Areopoli was called Tsimova by the invading Slavs during the 7th century AD...

Piraeus
Piraeus
Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....

Eleusina
Eleusina
Eleusina is a town and municipality in West Attica, Greece. It is situated about 18 km northwest from the centre of Athens. It is located in the Thriasian Plain, at the northernmost end of the Saronic Gulf. It is the seat of administration of West Attica regional unit...

Laurium
Laurium
Laurium or Lavrio is a town in southeastern part of Attica, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of Lavreotiki...

Heraklion
Heraklion
Heraklion, or Heraclion is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece. It is the 4th largest city in Greece....


Macedonia
Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of Greece in Southern Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region...

Thrace
Western Thrace
Western Thrace or simply Thrace is a geographic and historical region of Greece, located between the Nestos and Evros rivers in the northeast of the country. Together with the regions of Macedonia and Epirus, it is often referred to informally as northern Greece...

Epirus
Epirus (periphery)
Epirus , formally the Epirus Region , is a geographical and administrative region in northwestern Greece. It borders the regions of West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and the country of Albania to the north. The...

Thessaly
Thessaly
Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

Euboea
Euboea
Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long and narrow, seahorse-shaped island; it is about long, and varies in breadth from to...

Central Greece
Central Greece
Continental Greece or Central Greece , colloquially known as Roúmeli , is a geographical region of Greece. Its territory is divided into the administrative regions of Central Greece, Attica, and part of West Greece...

Peloponnese
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus , is a large peninsula , located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth...

Mt. Olympus
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, about 100 kilometres away from Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. Mount Olympus has 52 peaks. The highest peak Mytikas, meaning "nose", rises to 2,917 metres...

Lefkada
Lefkada
Lefkada, or Leucas or Leucadia , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Lefkada . It is situated on the northern part of the island,...

Cephalonia
Zakynthos
Zakynthos
Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...

Lemnos
Lemnos
Lemnos is an island of Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos peripheral unit, which is part of the North Aegean Periphery. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina...

Lesbos
Lesbos Island
Lesbos is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of with 320 kilometres of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island. It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait....

Chios
Chios
Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, seven kilometres off the Asia Minor coast. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages...

Samos
Samos Island
Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region, and the only municipality of the regional...

Andros
Andros
Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...

Tinos
Tinos
Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In antiquity, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa . The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos...

Mykonos
Mykonos
Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 9,320 inhabitants most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, which lies on the west coast. The town is also...

Icaria
Icaria
Icaria, also spelled Ikaria , is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles southwest of Samos. It derived its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who fell into the sea nearby. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Ikaria peripheral...

Patmos
Patmos
Patmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. One of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, it has a population of 2,984 and an area of . The highest point is Profitis Ilias, 269 meters above sea level. The Municipality of Patmos, which includes the offshore islands of Arkoi ,...

Naxos
Milos
Milos
Milos , is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete...

Santorini
Santorini
Santorini , officially Thira , is an island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera...

Kos
Kos
Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. It measures by , and is from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Kos peripheral unit, which is...

Rhodes
Rhodes
Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...

Karpathos
Karpathos
Karpathos 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 Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. From its remote position Karpathos has preserved many...

Kassos
Kythira
Kythira
Cythera is an island in Greece, once part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is administratively part of the Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica region , Greece.For many centuries, while naval travel was the only means...

Gavdos
Gavdos
Gavdos is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much bigger neighbour, Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the peripheral unit of Chania. It forms a community with surrounding islets and was part of the former Selino Province. It is the southernmost point of...


Aegean
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...

Sea
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...

Sea of Crete
Sea of Crete
thumb|300px|Map of the Sea of CreteThe Sea of Crete is the sea south of the Aegean Sea, north of the island Crete, and south of the Cyclades. The sea also stretches from Kythera east to the Dodecanese islands of Karpathos and Kassos. The bounding seas to the west are the Ionian Sea as well as...

Myrtoan
Myrtoan Sea
The Myrtoan Sea is a subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea that lies between the Cyclades and the Peloponnesos. It is described as the part of the Aegean Sea south of Euboea, Attica, and Argolis. Some of the water mass of the Black Sea reaches the Myrtoan Sea, via transport through the Aegean...

Sea
Myrtoan Sea
The Myrtoan Sea is a subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea that lies between the Cyclades and the Peloponnesos. It is described as the part of the Aegean Sea south of Euboea, Attica, and Argolis. Some of the water mass of the Black Sea reaches the Myrtoan Sea, via transport through the Aegean...

Ionian
Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea , is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and...

Sea
Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea , is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and...

Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

Sea
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...


Crete
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

Aegean
Aegean Islands
The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast...

Islands
Aegean Islands
The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast...

Cyclades
Cyclades
The Cyclades is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos...

Dodecanese
Dodecanese
The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, of which 26 are inhabited. Τhis island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the Southern Sporades island group...

Ionian
Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e...

Islands
Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e...

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This is a list of islands of Greece. The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000 islands and islets that belong to Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 inhabitants.

The largest Greek island by area is Crete
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...

. The second largest island is Euboea
Euboea
Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long and narrow, seahorse-shaped island; it is about long, and varies in breadth from to...

, 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
Rhodes
Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...

, 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
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, the Cyclades
Cyclades
The Cyclades is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos...

, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea, the North Aegean islands
North Aegean islands
The North Aegean islands are a number of disconnected islands in the north Aegean Sea, also known as the Northeast Aegean islands, belonging to Greece and Turkey. The islands do not form a physical chain or group, but are frequently grouped together for tourist or administrative purposes...

, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey, the Dodecanese
Dodecanese
The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, of which 26 are inhabited. Τhis island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the Southern Sporades island group...

, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey, the Sporades
Sporades
The Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. It consists of 24 islands, of which four are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros.-Administration:...

, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea, and the Ionian Islands
Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e...

, located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea
Ionian Sea
The Ionian Sea , is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, southern Albania to the north, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and...

 (one of these islands, Kythira
Kythira
Cythera is an island in Greece, once part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is administratively part of the Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica region , Greece.For many centuries, while naval travel was the only means...

, is off the southern tip of the Peloponnese
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus , is a large peninsula , located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth...

 Peninsula and part of the Attica region, but still considered part of the Ionian Islands, mainly because of historical reasons). There are also many islands, islets and rocks that surround the coast of Crete.

Islands of Greece by size

The following are the largest Greek islands listed by surface area. The table includes all islands of over 75 square miles (194.2 km²).


IslandArea
(sq. miles)
(km²)
1Crete
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

32198336
2Euboea
Euboea
Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long and narrow, seahorse-shaped island; it is about long, and varies in breadth from to...

14173670
3Lesbos6301633
4Rhodes
Rhodes
Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...

5411401
5Chíos
Chios
Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, seven kilometres off the Asia Minor coast. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages...

325842.3
6Cephalonia302781
7Corfu
Corfu
Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...

229592.9
8Lemnos
Lemnos
Lemnos is an island of Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos peripheral unit, which is part of the North Aegean Periphery. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina...

184477.6
9Samos
Samoš
Samoš is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovačica municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,247 people .-See also:...

184477.4
10Naxos166429.8
11Zakynthos
Zakynthos
Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...

157406
12Thassos
Thasos
Thasos or Thassos is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river Nestos but geographically part of Macedonia. It is the northernmost Greek island, and 12th largest by area...

147380.1
13Andros
Andros
Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...

147380.0
14Lefkada
Lefkada
Lefkada, or Leucas or Leucadia , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Lefkada . It is situated on the northern part of the island,...

117303
15Karpathos
Karpathos
Karpathos 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 Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. From its remote position Karpathos has preserved many...

116300
16Kos
Kos
Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. It measures by , and is from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Kos peripheral unit, which is...

112290.3
17Kythira
Kythira
Cythera is an island in Greece, once part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is administratively part of the Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica region , Greece.For many centuries, while naval travel was the only means...

108279.6
18Icaria
Icaria
Icaria, also spelled Ikaria , is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles southwest of Samos. It derived its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who fell into the sea nearby. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Ikaria peripheral...

99255
19Skyros
Skyros
Skyros 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 island was known as The Island of the Magnetes where the Magnetes used to live and later Pelasgia and Dolopia and later Skyros...

81209
20Paros
Paros
Paros is an island of Greece 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 Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets...

75195
21Tinos
Tinos
Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In antiquity, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa . The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos...

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Inhabited islands

  • Aegina
    Aegina
    Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island. During ancient times, Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.-Municipality:The municipality...

  • Hydra
    Hydra, Saronic Islands
    Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by narrow strip of water...

  • Poros
    Poros
    Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surface is about and it has 4,117...

  • Spetses
    Spetses
    Spetses is an island and a municipality in the Islands regional unit, Attica, Greece. It is sometimes included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolidocorinthia, which is now split into Argolis and Corinthia...

  • Angistri
    Angistri
    Angistri, also Agistri or Agkistri , is a small island and municipality in the Saronic Gulf in the Islands regional unit, Greece.-Settlements:...

  • Salamina
    Salamis Island
    Salamis , is the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. The chief city, Salamina , lies in the west-facing core of the crescent on Salamis Bay, which opens into the Saronic Gulf...

  • Dokos
    Dokos
    Dokos is also a village in the central part of the prefecture of Rodhopi, see Dokos , GreeceDokos 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 ...


Uninhabited islands

This list includes islands that may have been inhabited in the past but are now uninhabited:
  • Psyttalia
  • Leros Salaminos
  • Revythoussa
  • Moni Aiginas
  • Spetsopoula
    Spetsopoula
    Spetsopoula is a private island situated to the southeast of Spetses, which is one of the Saronic Islands, in the region of Attica and the Aegean Sea. It was purchased by the Greek tycoon Stavros Niarchos, a native of Attica...

  • Romvi
  • Plateia
  • Psili
  • Agios Georgios
  • Patroklou
  • Fleves
  • Agios Georgios Salaminos
  • Ypsili Diaporion
  • Ypsili Argolidos
  • Agios Thomas Diaporion
  • Agios Ioannis Diaporion
  • Plateia Aiginis
  • Laousses Islets
  • Kyra Aiginis
  • Trikeri Hydras
  • Alexandros Hydras
  • Stavronisi Hydras
  • Velopoula
  • Falkonera

Other islands and islets

  • Adelfoi Islets
    Adelfoi Islets
    The Adelfoi Islets are two Greek islands in the Sporades. They are located about east-southeast of the main island of Alonnisos and also administered by a municipality of the same main island name...

  • Agios Georgios Skopelou
  • Arko Skiathou
  • Aspronisi Skiathou
  • Dasia
  • Erinia (Rineia Skyrou)
    Erinia
    Erinia is a Greek island in the Sporades located west of Skyros.-Nearest islands and islets:Its nearest islands and islets are Skyropoula to the west, Skyros to the north and Valaxa to the east....

  • Gioura
    Gioura
    Gioura is a Greek island and an abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos. The island name dates back to the ancient times as Gerontia. The name was later altered to Gioura. The island also features a Neolithic settlement...

  • Grammeza
  • Korakas Alonissou

  • Kyra Panagia
    Kyra Panagia
    Kyra Panagia is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos in Magnesia Prefecture. The island is also known by the name of Pelagos and rarely Pelagonisi. In Antiquity it was known as Ephthyros and Polyaigos . A bay in the south west of the island...

  • Lekhoussa
  • Manolas Alonissou
  • Maragos Skiathou
  • Peristera
    Peristera
    Peristera , also Aspro, locally Xero , is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos and is also directly east of the namesake island. The 1991 census read three inhabitants, making it one of the smallest municipal district in the Northern Sporades....

  • Piperi
    Piperi, Greece
    Piperi is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos and is also the Sporades' easternmost island. The 2001 census reported a population of two inhabitants.-Nearest islands and islets:...

  • Polemika Alonissou
  • Praso Skantzouras
  • Psathoura
    Psathoura
    Psathoura is a Greek island in the Northern Sporades. It is administratively a part of Alonnisos and forms a depopulated sub-municipal district which is not officially a settlement. The Psathoura lighthouse, built in 1895, stands at 28.9 metres. It is one of the tallest in the Aegean...


  • Repio
    Repio
    Repio is a Greek island and an abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Skiathos.-External links:*...

  • Sarakino
    Sarakino
    Sarakino , older form Sarakinon is a Greek island in the Sporades south of Skyros.-External links:*...

  • Skandili
  • Skantzoura
    Skantzoura
    Skantzoura is a Greek island in the Sporades. The island is located about 25 to 30 km east-southeast of the main island of Alonnisos.-Nearest islands and islets:...

  • Skyropoula
    Skyropoula
    Skyropoula is a Greek island in the Sporades. The islet of Erinia lies directly to the east as well as the main island of Skyros. From 1860 until 2001, it was the private island of the Antoniades family...

  • Tsougria
    Tsougria
    Tsougria , also Tsoungkria is a Greek island and an abandoned settlement in the western part of the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Skiathos and is located southeast of the island. The island also features a beach as well....

  • Tsougriaki
  • Valaxa
    Valaxa
    Valaxa is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is located east and is administratively a part of Skyros.-Nearest islands and islets:Its nearest islands and islets are Erinia to the west and Skyros to the north and east....



Main seven

  • Corfu
    Corfu
    Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...

  • Ithaki or Ithaca
    Ithaca
    Ithaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and...

  • Cephalonia
  • Kythira
    Kythira
    Cythera is an island in Greece, once part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is administratively part of the Islands regional unit, which is part of the Attica region , Greece.For many centuries, while naval travel was the only means...

  • Lefkada
    Lefkada
    Lefkada, or Leucas or Leucadia , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Lefkada . It is situated on the northern part of the island,...

  • Paxi
    Paxi
    Paxi or Paxoi is the name given to the smallest group of the Ionian Islands . In Greek it is a plural form and it refers to a complex of islands, the largest of which are Paxos and Antipaxos...

  • Zakynthos
    Zakynthos
    Zakynthos , also Zante, the other form often used in English and in Italian , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It covers an area of ...


Others

  • Antikythera
    Antikythera
    Antikythera or Anticythera 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 island....

  • Antipaxi
  • Arkoudi
    Arkoudi
    For the settlement in northwestern Ilia, see Arkoudi, GreeceArkoudi , older forms: Arkoudio and Arkoudion is a Greek island in the Echinades. It is administered by the municipality of Ithaca and is north of the island as well as south of the island of Lefkada...

  • Atokos
    Atokos
    Atokos , is a Greek island in the Echinades. It has two key anchorages, One House Bay on the East Coast and Cliff Bay on the South Coast. It is administered by the municipality of Ithaca and is northeast of the island.-Nearest islands and islets:...

  • Diaplo
  • Drakonera
    Drakonera
    Drakonera or Dhragonára is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece. Drakonera forms part of the northern group of the Echinades, which are called the Drakoneras after the island. The mainland with the Aitoloakarnania prefecture is to the north and east. Several...

  • Elafonissos
  • Ereikoussa
    Ereikoussa
    Ereikoussa is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located off the northwestern coast of the island of Corfu, and is almost equidistant from Corfu to the...



  • Kalamos
  • Kalogiros
    Kalogiros (Echinades)
    Kalogiros or Kaloyiros is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece.-External links:*Map and aerial photos:* **Street map information from: , or or...

  • Karlonisi
    Karlonísi
    Karlonísi or Karlónísi is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece. It is administered by the municipality of Ithaca and is northeast of the island....

  • Kastos
    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 the mid-1970s, the island was administered under the Kefalonia prefecture...

  • Kravia
  • Kythros
  • Lamprinos
    Lamprinos
    Lampriní or Lamprini, also Lambrini, Labrini, Lamprinos, Lambrinos or Labrinos is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece.-External links:*Map and aerial photos:...

  • Lazaretto
  • Madouri
    Madouri
    Madouri is a small uninhabited island in the Ionian Sea, near Lefkada, Greece.-About the island:Located in the Ionian Sea, Madouri is west of the town Nydri on the island of Lefkada. To the east on the Greek mainland is Aetolia-Acarnania. It is part of the municipality of Ellomenos. The island is...



  • Makri
    Makri
    Makri is a Greek island, one of the Echinades, in the Ionian Islands group. It is administered by the municipality of Ithaca and is northeast of the island...

  • Makropoula
  • Mathraki
    Mathraki
    Mathraki is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 297 . Mathraki is a 45 minute boat ride off the coast of Corfu . It has three restaurants that double...

  • Meganisi
    Meganisi
    Meganisi is a Greek island and municipality immediately to the east-southeast of the island of Lefkada. The municipality includes the offshore islands of Skorpios and Sparti. Its total population was 1,092 at the 2001 census.The island has three villages: the central village of Katomeri Meganisi...

  • Modia Islets
  • Othonoi
    Othonoi
    Othonoi is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located northwest of Corfu. Population 663...

  • Oxeia
    Oxeia
    Oxeia is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the chief island in the southern group of the Echinades, part of the Ionian Islands. Oxeia possesses the highest point in the Echinades, 421 m. The mountains of Aitoloakarnania on the mainland are to the northeast...

  • Petalas
    Petalas
    Petalas or Petalá is the largest island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece. Some, including Leake, have conjectured that Petalas is the ancient Dulichium, from which the Iliad reports that 40 ships sailed to Troy, but Strabo and most modern authors prefer the...

  • Pistros
    Pistros
    Psitros is an islet east of Ithaca, one of the Ionian Islands in Greece.-External links:*Map and aerial photos:* **Street map information from: , or or **Satellite images: or - image now available...



  • Pontikos
    Pontikos
    Pontikos or Pondikónisi , also Pondikos, Pontikonissi or Pontikonisi is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece...

  • Provati
    Prováti
    Prováti is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece....

  • Skorpios
    Skorpios
    Skorpios 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 2001 census reported a population of two inhabitants...

  • Skorpidi
  • Sofía
    Sofía (Echinades)
    Sofía or Sofiá is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece.-External links:*...

  • Sparti Lefkados
  • Strofades
    Strofades
    Strofades 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 Municipality of Zakynthos...

  • Thilia
  • Vidos
  • Vromonas
    Vromonas
    Vromonas or Vromona is a Greek island in the Ionian Islands located east of the island of Ithaca.-External links:*Map and aerial photos:* **Street map information from: , or or...



The Dodecanese Islands

164 total islands of which 26 are inhabited.

  • Adelfoi Islet
  • Agathonissi
  • Agioi Theodoroi Halkis
  • Agreloussa
  • Alimia
  • Antitilos
  • Anydros Patmou
  • Arefoussa
  • Arhangelos
  • Arkoi
    Arkoi
    Arki 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...

  • Armathia
    Armathia
    Armathia is a Greek island belonging to the Dodecanese group in the eastern Aegean sea. It is part of the municipality of Kasos. In the census of 1951 there were 8 recorded inhabitants but it has since become uninhabited. At its peak it sustained a community of over 100 which were mainly involved...

  • Astakida
  • Astypalaia
    Astypalaia
    Astypalaia , called in Italian Stampalia and in Ottoman Turkish İstanbulya , is a Greek island with 1,238 residents . It belongs to the Dodecanese, an island group of twelve major islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea. The island is 18 km. long, 13 km. wide at the most, and covers an...

  • Faradonesia
  • Farmakonisi
  • Fokionissia
  • Fragos
  • Gaidourosnissi Tilou
  • Glaros Kinarou
  • Gyali
    Gyali
    Gyali is a volcanic Greek island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes and pumice deposits. The island has two distinct segments, with the northeastern part almost entirely made of obsidian and the southwestern...

  • Halavra
  • Halki

  • Hiliomodi Patmou
  • Hondro
  • Htenies
  • Imia
  • Rho
  • Kalavros Kalymnou
  • Kalolimnos
    Kalolimnos
    Kalolimnos is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Imia, opposite the coast of Turkey. It is part of the municipality of Kálymnos....

  • Kalovolos
  • Kalymnos
    Kalymnos
    Kalymnos, is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese and is located to the west of the peninsula of Bodrum , between the islands of Kos and Leros : the latter is linked to it through a series of islets...

  • Kamilonisi
  • Kandeloussa
  • Karavolas Rodhou
  • Karpathos
    Karpathos
    Karpathos 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 Karpathos, which is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. From its remote position Karpathos has preserved many...

  • Kasos
    Kasos
    Kasos is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of the Karpathos peripheral unit. As of 2001, its population was 990. The island has been called in , .-Geography:...

  • Kastellorizo (Megisti)
  • Kinaros
  • Kos
    Kos
    Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. It measures by , and is from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Kos peripheral unit, which is...

  • Koubelonisi
  • Kouloundros
  • Kouloura Leipson
  • Kounoupoi
  • Koutsomytis

  • Leipsoi
    Leipsoi
    Leipsoi 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 from Piraeus. Lipsi or Lipsous is a small group of islets at the northern part of the Dodecanese near to Patmos island and...

  • Leros
    Leros
    Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride . Leros is part of the Kalymnos peripheral unit...

  • Levitha
    Lebynthos
    Levitha is a small island located in the east of the Aegean Sea, between Kos and Paros, part of the Dodecanese islands. It is part of the municipality Leros. The island is mentioned in two of Ovid's works Ars Amatoria and the Metamorphoses in connection with the saga of Daedalus and Icarus...

  • Makronisi Leipson
  • Makronissi Kasou
  • Makry Aspronisi Leipson
  • Makry Halkis
  • Marmaras
  • Mavra Levithas
  • Megalo Aspronisi Leipson
  • Megalo Glaronisi
  • Megalo Sofrano
  • Mesonisi Seirinas
  • Mikro Glaronisi
  • Mikro Sofrano
  • Nero
  • Nimos
  • Nisyros
    Nisyros
    Nisyros is a volcanic Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos. Its shape is approximately round, with a diameter of about , and an area of . Several other islets are found in the direct...

  • Paheia Nisyrou
  • Patmos
    Patmos
    Patmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. One of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, it has a population of 2,984 and an area of . The highest point is Profitis Ilias, 269 meters above sea level. The Municipality of Patmos, which includes the offshore islands of Arkoi ,...

  • Pergoussa
  • Piganoussa

  • Pitta
  • Plati Kasou
  • Plati Pserimou
  • Plati Symis
  • Pontikoussa
  • Prasonissi Rodhou
  • Prasouda
  • Pserimos
    Pserimos
    Pserimos is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Kos in front of the coast of Turkey. It is part of the municipality of Kálymnos, and reported a population of 130 inhabitants at the 2001 census....

  • Rhodos
    Rhodes
    Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...

  • Safonidi
  • Saria
    Saria Island
    Saria Island is an island in Greece. It is a rocky, volcanic island along the northern edge of Karpathos, separated from it by a strait 100 m wide. Administratively, it is part of the community of Olympos. The 2001 census reported a resident population of 22 persons. It has little plant or animal...

  • Seirina
  • Sesklio
  • Stroggyli Kastellorizou
  • Stroggyli
  • Strogulli Kritinias
  • Strogyli Kasou
  • Symi
    Symi
    Symi also transliterated Syme or Simi is a Greek island and municipality. It is mountainous and includes the harbor town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller localities, beaches, and areas of significance in history and mythology...

  • Syrna
    Syrna (island)
    Syrna or Sirna is a small island about 4 km2 in area to the south-east of Astypalaia in the Dodecanese group of Greek islands near the south-west coast of Turkey. It is mostly covered with juniper and garrigue scrub. The few inhabitants raise stock, catch fish and practice arable agriculture...

  • Telendos
  • Tilos
    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. It has a population of 533 inhabitants . Along with the uninhabited offshore islets of Antitilos and Gaidaros, it forms the Municipality...

  • Tragonisi
  • Zafora
    Zafora
    Zaforas is a small Greek island in the southern part of the Dodecanese chain, about south of the island Astypalaia....


Aegean Islands

Of the Aegean Sea

  • Agios Efstratios
    Agios Efstratios
    Agios Efstratios or Saint Eustratius is a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea about 30 km southwest of Lemnos and 80 km northwest of Lesbos...

  • Chios
    Chios
    Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, seven kilometres off the Asia Minor coast. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages...

    • Oinousses
      Oinousses
      Oinousses , alternative forms: Aignoussa or Egnoussa is a barren cluster of 1 larger and 8 smaller islands some 2 km off the north-east coast of the Greek island of Chios and 8 km west of Turkey. Administratively the islands form a municipality within the Chios peripheral unit, which is...

    • Psara
      Psara
      Psara is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Together with the small uninhabited island of Antipsara it forms the municipality of Psara. It is part of the Chios peripheral unit, which is part of the North Aegean Periphery. The only town of the island and seat of the municipality is also called...

    • Antipsara
      Antipsara
      Antipsara is a small, Greek island in the Aegean Sea.Antipsara had 4 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. It lies about 3 km west of the larger island Psara, from which its name is derived. Geographic conditions make it inaccessible from the north and west side. Evidence exists of settlement...

  • Ikaria
  • Fournoi Korseon
    Fournoi Korseon
    Fournoi Korseon , more commonly simply Fournoi, is a complex or archipelago of small Greek islands that lie between Ikaria, Samos and Patmos in Ikaria peripheral unit, North Aegean Periphery. The two largest islands of the complex, the main isle of Fourni and the isle of Thymaina, are inhabited, as...

    • Agios Minas
    • Thymaina
      Thymaina
      Thymaina is a small Greek island in the Samos Prefecture, in the eastern Aegean Sea. Thymaina is located just west of Fournoi Korseon and is administratively a part of its municipality. Its name is said to be derived from the thyme that grows throughout the island. The population of Thymaina is...

  • Lesbos
    Lesbos Island
    Lesbos is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of with 320 kilometres of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island. It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait....

  • Lemnos
    Lemnos
    Lemnos is an island of Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos peripheral unit, which is part of the North Aegean Periphery. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina...

  • Samos
    Samos Island
    Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate regional unit of the North Aegean region, and the only municipality of the regional...

    • Samiopoula
      Samiopoula
      Samiopoula is a Greek islet located on the south of Samos Island and at a distance of . It is under the authority of the Prefecture of Samos and the local jurisdiction of the municipality of Pythagoreio. The 2001 census reported a population of five inhabitants...


The Cyclades

Cyclades comprise around 220 islands

Main islands

  • Amorgos
    Amorgos
    Amorgos is the easternmost island of the Greek Cyclades island group, and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group. Along with several neighboring islets, the largest of which is Nikouria Island, it comprises the municipality of Amorgos, which has a land area of...

  • Anafi
    Anafi
    Anafi is a Greek island community in the Cyclades. In 2001, it had a population of 273 inhabitants. Its land area is 40.370 km². It lies east of the island of Thíra...

  • Andros
    Andros
    Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...

  • Antiparos
    Antiparos
    Antiparos is a small inhabited island in the southern Aegean, at the heart of the Cyclades, which is less than one nautical mile from Paros, the port to which it is connected with a local ferry...

  • Delos
    Delos
    The island of Delos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece...

  • Donoussa
    Donoussa
    Donousa is an island and 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...

  • Folegandros
    Folegandros
    Folegandros is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea which, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades. Its surface area is about and it has 667 inhabitants....

  • Gyaros
    Gyaros
    Gyaros is an arid and unpopulated Greek island of the northern Cyclades near in the islands Andros and Tinos, with an area of 23 square kilometres. It is a part of the municipality of Ano Syros, which lies primarily on the island of Syros. This and other small islands of the Aegean Sea served as...

  • Ios
    Ios (Island)
    Ios 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, situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini. It is about 18 km long and 10 km wide, with an area of about 109 km² . Population was 1,838 in 2001...

  • Iraklia
    Irakleia, Cyclades
    Irakleia is an island and 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. Its population was officially 151 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and its land area 17.795 km². It...

  • Kea
    Kea (island)
    Kea , also known as Gia or Tzia , Zea, and, in Antiquity, Keos , is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos peripheral unit. Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude and is considered quite picturesque...

  • Keros
    Keros
    Keros is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos. Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisi. It has an area of and its highest point is...

  • Kimolos
    Kimolos
    Kimolos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, belonging to the islands group of Cyclades, located on the SW tip of them, near the bigger island of Milos. It is considered as a middle class, rural island, not included in the tourist hotspots, thus, ferry connection is sometimes of bad quality...


  • Koufonisia
  • Kythnos
    Kythnos
    Kythnos is a Greek island and municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos. It is from the harbor of Piraeus. Kythnos is in area and has a coastline of about . It has more than 70 beaches, many of which are still inaccessible by road...

  • Makronissos
  • Milos
    Milos
    Milos , is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete...

  • Mykonos
    Mykonos
    Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 9,320 inhabitants most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, which lies on the west coast. The town is also...

  • Naxos
  • Paros
    Paros
    Paros is an island of Greece 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 Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets...

  • Polyaigos
    Polyaigos
    Polýaigos is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades near Milos and Kimolos. It is part of the community of Kimolos . Its name means "many goats", since it is inhabited only by goats....

  • Santorini/Thera
    Santorini
    Santorini , officially Thira , is an island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland. It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago which bears the same name and is the remnant of a volcanic caldera...

  • Schoinoussa
    Schoinoussa
    Schoinoussa is an island and 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. It lies south of the island of Naxos, in the Small Cyclades group, between the island...

  • Serifos
    Serifos
    Serifos 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 peripheral unit. The area is 75.207 km² and the population was 1,414 at the 2001 census. It is located about ESE of Piraeus...

  • Sifnos
    Sifnos
    Sifnos is an island municipality in the Cyclades island group in Greece. The main town, near the center, is known as Apollonia home of the island's folklore museum and library. The town's name is thought to come from an ancient temple of Apollo on the site of the church of Panayia Yeraniofora...

  • Sikinos
    Sikinos
    Sikinos is a Greek island and municipality in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios and Folegandros. Sikinos is part of the Santorini peripheral unit....

  • Syros
    Syros
    Syros , or Siros or Syra is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is located south-east of Athens. The area of the island is . The largest towns are Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and Vari. Ermoupoli is the capital of the island and the Cyclades...

  • Thirasia
  • Tinos
    Tinos
    Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In antiquity, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa . The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos...


Other islands and islets

  • Agios Nikolaos Donoussas
  • Ananes
  • Ano Antikeros
  • Antimilos
    Antimilos
    Antimilos is a Greek island in the Cyclades, 13 miles northwest of Milos. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Milos. Antimilos is an uninhabited mass of trachyte , often called Erimomilos . It is a volcanic island and the crater is still obvious...

  • Anydros Amorgou
  • Askania
    Askania
    Askania Cinetheodolite is a camera-based system that measures and records azimuth, elevation, and time data on 35mm film along with an image of a target. Multiple cinetheodolites generally operated together and each system is slewed in azimuth and elevation to track the target...

  • Despotiko
    Despotiko
    -Nearest islands and islets:*Antiparos, northeast*Koimitiri, northeast*Strongylo, southwest-About Despotiko:The small and dry island is located about 700 m southwest from the shores of Antiparos...

  • Eschati
    Eschati
    Eschati is a Greek island in the Cyclades....

  • Glaronisi
    Glaronisi
    Glaronisi thumb|left|Glaronisi, in the distance from the coast.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Gramvoussa
  • Hristiana
  • Htapodia Mykonou
  • Kalogiros
  • Kardiotissa
  • Kato Antikeros

  • Kato Koufonisi
  • Kitriani
  • Kramvoniss
  • Lagousa
    Lagousa
    Kardiotissa is a Greek island in the Cyclades. It is uninhabited and administratively a part of the island community of Sikinos. It lies midway between that island and the island of Folegandros.-External links:*...

  • Liadi Island
  • Makares
  • Megalo
  • Nea Kameni
    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 have formed over the past two millennia by repeated eruptions of dacite lava and ash...

  • Nikouria
  • Pahia Anaphis
  • Palea Kameni
  • Rhineia
  • Saliagos
  • Serifopoula
    Serifopoula
    Serifopoula is a Greek island in the Cyclades. It is a part of the municipality of Serifos. Serifopoula was unpopulated at the 2001 Greek census.-References:...

  • Stroggyli Parou
  • Vous


Of the Aegean Sea

  • Afendis Christos
    Afendis Christos
    Afendis Christos is a small islet off the northern coast of the Greek island of Crete named after the small chapel built there. The islet and chapel is only a short distance away from the beach at Malia and a short distance from the islet of Agia Varvara. Afendis Christos is administered from...

  • Agia Varvara
    Agia Varvara
    Agia Varvara The area was mainly made up of farmlands. Mixed farming was common. Urban development replaced much of the farmlands between the 1940s and the 1970s. Today, most of the municipality are urbanized or residential. The rocky landscape of Aigaleo with a few bushes and pine forests lies to...

  • Agioi Apostoloi
    Agioi Apostoloi
    Agioi Apostoloi is an uninhabited islet to the north of the western coast of Crete in the Aegean Sea. Administratively, it is within the municipality of Chania, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Agioi Pandes
    Agioi Pandes
    Agioi Pandes or Pantes , is a Greek islet, located north of the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture close to Agios Nikolaos.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Agioi Theodoroi
    Agioi Theodoroi (islands)
    Agioi Theodoroi are two uninhabited islets off the coast of western Crete. One is named Agios Theodoros, also called Thodorou, and the islet a few metres further north is called Mikros Agios Theodoros . Administratively, they are part of the municipality of Agia Marina, in Chania Prefecture...

  • Agios Nikolaos
    Agios Nikolaos (Chania)
    Agios Nikolaos is an islet with a church on the northern coast of Crete in the Aegean Sea. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Georgioupoli, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Anavatis
    Anavatis
    Anavatis , is an uninhabited Greek islet, close to the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture. It is a member of the Kavaloi group of islets, forming a close group, together with Kavallos, and Kefali. It is part of the Lefki municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Arnaouti
    Arnaouti
    Arnaouti is an islet on the northern coast of Crete in the Aegean Sea. It is just south of the island of Imeri Gramvousa and is located between Imeri Gramvousa and Valenti rock. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Kissamos, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of...

  • Aspros Volakas
    Aspros Volakas
    Aspros Volakas is a large white rock, next to Long Beach, on the coast of Crete, near Lambi, in Rethymno Prefecture. This rock feature is formally designated as a cape due to the shallow water....

  • Avgo
    Avgo
    Avgo , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Neapolis municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Crete
    Crete
    Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

  • Daskaleia
    Daskaleia
    Daskaleia , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the northeastern coast of Crete. The small islet lies close to the island of Kyriamadi. Administratively it lies within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:...

  • Dia
  • Diapori
    Diapori
    Diapori is an island that almost touches the coast of Crete, near Geropotamos, in Rethymno Prefecture. The islet is not visible on many maps but can be seen on satellite images....

  • Dionysades
    Dionysades
    The Dionysades or Gianysades is a small group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group includes the islands Gianysada, Dragonada, Paximada, and Paximadaki...

  • Dragonada
    Dragonada
    Dragonada , also called Dragonara, is an island within the small Dionysades group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group also includes Gianysada, Paximada, and Paximadaki...

  • Elasa
    Elasa
    Elasa or Elása is an island that can be found northeast of Crete in the Aegean Sea, about 3.5 nautical miles from the palm tree forest of Vai. It is rocky and uninhabited covering 1.9 square kilometres. Its highest point is 79 metres above sea-level...

  • Ftena Trachylia
    Ftena Trachylia
    Ftena Trachylia , also known as Pinnacle Rocks , are a group of uninhabited Greek islets/rocks, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete...

  • Gianysada
    Gianysada
    Gianysada or Giannisada , is an island within the small Dionysades group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group also includes Dragonada, Paximada, and Paximadaki...

  • Glaronisi
    Glaronisi
    Glaronisi thumb|left|Glaronisi, in the distance from the coast.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Gramvousa, Agria
  • Gramvousa, Imeri
  • Grandes
    Grandes (islands)
    Grandes is a group of three small islands off the east coast of Crete. Administratively it comes within the Itanos municipality in Lasithi Prefecture. Grandes can be seen from the Minoan site of Roussolakkos near Palekastro as can the island of Elasa....

  • Kalydon (Spinalonga)
    Spinalonga
    The island of Spinalonga , officially known as Kalydon , is located in the Gulf of Elounda in north-eastern Crete, in Lasithi prefecture, next to the town of Elounda....

  • Karavi
    Karavi
    Karavi , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the northeastern coast of eastern Crete. The small islet lies close to the island of Kyriamadi. Administratively it lies within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:...

  • Karga
  • Katergo
    Katergo
    Katergo , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Kavallos
    Kavallos
    Kavallos , is an uninhabited Greek islet, close to the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture. It is a member of the Kavaloi group of islets, forming a close group, together with Anavatis, and Kefali.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Kefali
    Kefali
    Kefali , is an uninhabited Greek islet, close to the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture. It is a member of the Kavalloi group of islands, forming a close group, together with Anavatis, and Kavallos.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Kolokythas
    Kolokythas
    Kolokythas , also known as Kolokythia and Vryonisi , is a Greek islet with a hotel, located north of the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture, next to the island of Spinalonga.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Koursaroi
    Koursaroi
    Koursaroi , also known as Nisaki , is an islet close to the eastern coast of Crete, and north-east of the islet of Praso, in the Aegean Sea. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Kissamos, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:...

  • Kyriamadi
    Kyriamadi
    Kyriamadi is an island that can be found northeast of Crete, close to the palm tree forest of Vai. Administratively it comes within Itanos municipality in Lasithi Prefecture.The population of the island from the 2001 census was 26 persons....

  • Lazaretta
    Lazaretta
    Lazaretta , also called Lazaretto , is an uninhabited island close to the northern coast of Crete in the Aegean Sea. It is located near the city of Chania and administratively, it is within the municipality of Chania, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Leon
    Leon (Souda Bay)
    Leon , also known colloquially as Nisi and during Venetian rule as Rabbit Island, is an islet in Souda Bay on the northwest coast of Crete....

  • Mavros
    Mavros
    Mavros , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Mavros Volakas
    Mavros Volakas
    Mavros Volakas is a large rock, next to Long Beach, on the coast of Crete, near Lambi, in Rethymno Prefecture.There is another large rock that is even closer to the beach, called Aspros Volakas....

  • Megatzedes
    Megatzedes
    Megatzedes , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Mochlos
    Mochlos
    Mochlos is a modern 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 and acted as an eastern harbor.The name Mochlos also applies to the...

  • Nikolos
    Nikolos
    Nikolos , also known as Nikolonisi, Nikolo Nisi, and Agios Antonios, is an island close to the northeastern coast of Crete. Administratively it comes within the Agios Nikolaos municipality in Lasithi Prefecture....

  • Palaiosouda
    Palaiosouda
    Palaiosouda , also known as Marathi , is an islet located south of the town of Marathi, close to Souda Bay in Crete. The islet is a popular diving location....

  • Paximada
    Paximada
    Paximada is an island within the small Dionysades group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group also includes Dragonada, Gianysada, and Paximadaki...

  • Paximadaki
    Paximadaki
    Paximadaki is an island within the small Dionysades group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group also includes Dragonada, Gianysada, and Paximada...

  • Peristeri
    Peristeri (island)
    Peristeri is an islet close to the northern coast of Crete, in the Perama district of the Geropotamos municipality, in Rethymno Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Peristerovrachoi
    Peristerovrachoi
    Peristerovrachoi , are uninhabited Greek islets/rocks, in the Aegean Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively they lie within the Itanos municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Petalida
    Petalida
    Petalida , also known as Xera , is an islet close to the northern coast of Crete in the Aegean Sea. It is located between the island of Imeri Gramvousa and the mainland. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Kissamos, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Petalouda
    Petalouda
    Petalouda is an uninhabited islet off the coast of western Crete in the Aegean Sea. Administratively, it is part of Kissamos Province, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Pontikaki
    Pontikaki
    Pontikaki is an uninhabited islet off the coast of western Crete that is close to the islet of Pontikonisi. Administratively, it is part of Kissamos Province, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Pontikonisi
    Pontikonisi
    Pontikonisi is an uninhabited islet off the coast of western Crete. Administratively, it is part of Kissamos Province, in Chania Prefecture. There is a small islet close to Pontikonisi called Pontikaki .-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Praso Kissamou
    Praso (Kissamos)
    Praso , also known as Prasonisi , is an islet close to the eastern coast of Crete, and south-west of the islet of Koursaroi, in the Aegean Sea. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Kissamos, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:...

  • Prosfora
    Prosfora
    Prosfora , is an uninhabited Greek islet, close to the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture. Administratively it lies within the Sitia municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Pseira
    Pseira
    Pseira is an islet in the Gulf of Mirabello in northeastern Crete with the archaeological remains of Minoan and Mycenean civilisation.-Exploration:...

  • Sideros
    Sideros
    Sideros , also known as Strongylo , is an uninhabited Greek rock, in the Aegean Sea, close to the northeastern coast of eastern Crete. The rock lies just north of the island of Kyriamadi. There is also a Cape Sideros on the island of Kyriamadi. Administratively it lies within the Itanos...

  • Souda
    Souda (island)
    Souda is an islet in Souda Bay on the northwest coast of Crete. In ancient times this islet was one of two islets that were referred to as Leukai . The second islet is known today as Leon.-History:...

  • Valenti
    Valenti
    Valenti was released in 2003 and is BoA's highest selling Japanese album and sold over 1.2 million copies.Valenti debuted at number on the weekly charts with over 615,000 copies in its first week. It was also number one in its second week with another 222,000 copies sold...

  • Vryonisi
    Vryonisi
    Vryonisi , also known as Prasonisi , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Aegean Sea, close to the northern coast of eastern Crete. Administratively it lies within the Agios Nikolaos municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:...


Of the Libyan Sea
Libyan Sea
The Libyan Sea is the portion of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the African coast of ancient Libya, i.e. Cyrenaica and Marmarica...

  • Agia Eirini
    Agia Eirini
    - In Greece :* Agia Eirini Gorge, in Chania, Crete* Agia Eirini, Chania, a village in Chania, Crete]* Agia Eirini, Kefalonia, on the island of Kefalonia* Agia Eirini, Paros, on the island of Paros* Agia Eirini, Kea is a prehistoric settlement on Kea Island....

  • Agriomandra
    Agriomandra
    Agriomandra , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Libyan Sea, close to the southern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Ierapetra municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Artemis
    Artemis
    Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name and indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals"...

  • Ammoudi tous Volakous
    Ammoudi tous Volakous
    Ammoudi tous Volakous is an uninhabited islet to the south of the western coast of Crete in the Libyan Sea. Just south of Sfakia it is within Sfakia's administration, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Chrysi
    Chrysi
    Chrysi , also transliterated as Chrissi, and alternatively known as Gaidouronisi , is an uninhabited Greek island approximately 15 km south of Crete close to Ierapetra in the Libyan Sea. Approximately 700m east of the island is the island of Mikronisi...

  • Elafonisi
    Elafonisi
    Elafonisi is an island located close to the southwestern corner of the mediterranean island of Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the prefecture of Chania. When the weather is fine it is possible to walk to the island through the shallow water...

  • Fotia (island)
    Fotia (island)
    Fotia , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Libyan Sea, close to the eastern coast of Crete. Administratively it lies within the Ierapetra municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Gaidouronisi
    Gaidouronisi
    Gaidouronisi , is a small islet off the southern coast of Crete, close to the northern coast of the island of Gavdos, in the Libyan Sea. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Gavdos, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:...

  • Gavdos
    Gavdos
    Gavdos is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much bigger neighbour, Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the peripheral unit of Chania. It forms a community with surrounding islets and was part of the former Selino Province. It is the southernmost point of...

  • Gavdopoula
    Gavdopoula
    Gavdopoula 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 peripheral unit of Chania. It is part of the municipality of Gavdos, and it was part of the former Selino...

  • Koufonisi (Lefki)
    Koufonisi, Crete
    Koufonisi , known as Lefki in ancient times, is an uninhabited Greek islet, located 3 nautical miles south of cape Goudero on the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture, in the Libyan sea. The island is roughly 6 kilometres long and 5.5 kilometres across. It has an entire surface area of...

  • Loutro
    Loutro (island)
    Loutro is a rocky islet in the gulf of Loutro, Chania on the southwest coast of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet can be found close to the end of the Mouri cape. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Sfakia. The coastal village of Loutro is approximately 71 km south of Chania...

  • Makroulo
    Makroulo
    Makroulo , is an uninhabited Greek islet, located south of cape Goudero on the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture, in the Libyan Sea. It forms a close group of islands with Koufonisi, Marmaro, Strongyli, and Trachilos.-See also:...

  • Marmaro
    Marmaro
    Marmaro , is an uninhabited Greek islet, located south of cape Goudero on the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture, in the Libyan Sea. It forms a close group of islands with Koufonisi, Makroulo, Strongyli, and Trachilos.-See also:...

  • Megalonisi
    Megalonisi
    Megalonisi is an islet off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea that hosts a lighthouse. 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...

  • Mikronisi
    Mikronisi
    Mikronisi , also known as Agios Pavlos , 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...

  • Papadoplaka
    Papadoplaka
    Papadoplaka 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 ancient capital of Crete. The name can be loosely translated as the priest's rock...

  • Paximadia
    Paximadia
    Paximadia are two small uninhabited islands in the gulf of Mesara located approximately 12km south of Agia Galini in Rethymno Prefecture. They are in the Libyan Sea next to the southern coast of Crete...

  • Prasonisi, Gavdou
    Prasonisi (Gavdos)
    Prasonisi , is a small islet off the southern coast of Crete, close to the northern coast of the island of Gavdos and between Gavdos and the islet of Gavdopoula, in the Libyan Sea. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Gavdos, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of...

  • Prasonisi, Rethymnou
    Prasonisi (Rethymno)
    Prasonisi , is an islet just off the coast of Crete, near Lambi, in Rethymno Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Psyllos
    Psyllos
    Psyllos , is an uninhabited Greek islet, in the Libyan Sea, close to the southern coast of eastern Crete. Administratively it lies within the Ierapetra municipality of Lasithi Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...

  • Schistonisi
    Schistonisi
    Schistonisi , also called Schisto , and Trachili , is a small islet off the southern coast of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is located south-west of the town of Palaiochora. Administratively, it is located within the municipality of Pelekanos, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of...

  • Strongyli
    Strongyli (island)
    Strongyli , also known as Strongylo, is an uninhabited Greek islet, located south of cape Goudero on the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture, in the Libyan Sea. It forms a close group of islands with Koufonisi, Makroulo, Marmaro, and Trachilos....

  • Thetis
    Thetis
    Silver-footed Thetis , disposer or "placer" , is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths...

  • Psarocharako
    Psarocharako
    Psarocharako is a large rock off the southern coast of the Greek island of Crete in the Libyan Sea. The islet is administered from Viannos in Heraklion prefecture near Tertsa....

  • Trachilos
    Trachilos
    Trachilos , also known as Trachila, is an uninhabited Greek islet, located south of cape Goudero on the coast of eastern Crete, Lasithi prefecture, in the Libyan Sea. It forms a close group of islands with Koufonisi, Makroulo, Marmaro, and Strongyli....

  • Trafos
    Trafos
    Trafos 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...

  • Treis Volakous
    Treis Volakous
    Treis Volakous are rocks close to the southern coast of Crete in the Libyan Sea. They fall within the administration of the municipality of Sfakia, in Chania Prefecture.-See also:*List of islands of Greece...


Euboea and surrounding islands

  • Euboea
    Euboea
    Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long and narrow, seahorse-shaped island; it is about long, and varies in breadth from to...

  • Petalioi
  • Megalos Petalios
  • Mandilou
  • Hersonisi
  • Lithari
  • Manolia

Islets close to mainland

  • Trikeri
    Trikeri
    Trikeri is a town and a former community in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Pelion, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies at the westernmost point of the hook-like Pelion Peninsula on the Pagasetic Gulf. It also includes...

     (Thessalia)
  • Antitrikeri (Thessalia)
  • Alatas Trikeriou
  • Proti Island (Peloponnisos)
  • Sapientza
    Sapientza
    Sapientza is a Greek island off the southern coast of the Peloponnese. It is administratively part of the municipality of Methóni in the Messinia Prefecture. The 2001 census reported a population of seven inhabitants.-External links:*...

     (Peloponnisos)
  • Schiza
    Schiza
    Schiza is a Greek island off the southwestern coast of the Peloponnese. The 2001 census reported a population of two inhabitants. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Methóni in the Messinia Prefecture.-External links:*...

     (Peloponnisos)
  • Ammouliani
    Ammouliani
    Ammouliani - also known as Amoliani - is an island located in the Chalkidiki prefecture, Greece, 120 km from Thessaloniki. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Stagira-Akanthos. The 2001 census reported a population of 542 inhabitants, making it one of the most populous islands in...

     (Halkidiki)
  • Kelifos (Halkidiki)
  • Kefalonia (islet)
  • Trizonia island (Central Greece)

See also

  • List of islands in the Mediterranean
  • List of islands
  • Aegean Islands
    Aegean Islands
    The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast...

  • List of Aegean Islands
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