List of islands of Greece


has many islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227.
The largest Greek island by 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

The following are the largest Greek islands listed by surface area. The table includes all islands of over.
IslandArea
Cluster
1Crete3,2198,336
2Euboea1,4173,670
3Lesbos6301,633North Aegean Islands
4Rhodes5411,401Dodecanese
5Chíos325842.3North Aegean Islands
6Kefalonia302781Ionian Islands
7Corfu229592.9Ionian Islands
8Lemnos184477.6North Aegean Islands
9Samos184477.4North Aegean Islands
10Naxos166429.8Cyclades
11Zakynthos157406Ionian Islands
12Thassos147380.1North Aegean Islands
13Andros147380.0Cyclades
14Lefkada117303Ionian Islands
15Karpathos116300Dodecanese
16Kos112290.3Dodecanese
17Kythira108279.6Ionian Islands
18Icaria99255North Aegean Islands
19Skyros81209Northern Sporades
20Paros75195Cyclades
21Tinos75194Cyclades
22Samothrace69178North Aegean Islands
23Milos58151Cyclades
24Kea51132Cyclades
25Amorgos47121Cyclades
26Kalymnos42.5110Dodecanese
27Ios41.7108Cyclades
28Kythnos38.499.4Cyclades
29Astypalaia37.296.4Dodecanese
30Ithaca37.196.2Ionian Islands

Saronic Islands

Inhabited islands

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

Main islands

Main seven

Main 12 islands

Of the Aegean Sea

Main islands

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

Of the Aegean Sea