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The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000 islands and islets that belong to Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 inhabitants.

The largest and most popular Greek island by area is Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
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The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000 islands and islets that belong to Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 inhabitants.

The largest and most popular Greek island by area is Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
. The second largest island is Euboea
Euboea

For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the central Greece
Central Greece (periphery)

The periphery of Continental Greece or Central Greece is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece. It is divided into the Prefectures of Greece of Euboea, Evrytania, Phocis, Phthiotis, and Boeotia Prefecture....
 periphery. After the third and fourth largest Greek Islands, Lesbos and Rhodes
Rhodes

Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in 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 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
, 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
Argo-Saronic Islands

Argo-Saronic Islands is a term combining the islands in the neighboring Saronic Gulf and Argolic Gulf, both of which open into the Aegean Sea. It is especially apt in describing Hydra, Saronic Islands and Dokos, which do not really lie in either gulf....
 in the Saronic gulf near Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
, the Cyclades
Cyclades

The Cyclades are a Greece island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefectures of Greece of Greece....
, 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....
, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey, the Dodecanese
Dodecanese

The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greece list of islands of Greece in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete....
, 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 five are inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Peristera and Skyros....
, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea, and the Ionian Islands
Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are a island group in Greece. They are traditionally called "Eptanisa", i.e. "the Seven Islands" , but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones....
, 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, by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east....
 (one of these islands, Kythira
Kythira

Kythira is an island of Greece, historically part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the eastern tip of the Peloponnesos peninsula. It is administratively part of the Piraeus Prefecture although geographically distant from the prefecture's population center....
, is off the southern tip of the mainland, but still considered part of the Ionian Islands).

Saronic islands



  • Aegina
    Aegina

    Aegina is one of the Greek islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 17 miles from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island....
  • 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 the narrow Hydra Gulf....
  • Poros
    Poros

    Poros is a small Greece 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....
  • Spetses
    Spetses

    Spetses is an island of Greece, 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 and Ankistri or Agkistri is a very small island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Saronic Gulf in Piraeus Prefecture, Greece....
  • Salamina
    Salamis Island

    Salamis is the largest Greece island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. Due to its roughly crescent shape, the island is also locally known as Koulouri, after the koulouri....
  • Psyttalia
  • Leros Salaminos
  • Revythoussa
  • Moni Aiginas
  • Dokos
    Dokos

    Dokos is also a village in the central part of the prefecture of Rodhopi, see Dokos , GreeceDokos is a small Greece island of the Argo-Saronic Gulf, adjacent to Hydra, Saronic Islands, and separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait called on some maps "the Hydra Gulf." It is part of the municipality of Hydra, Saronic Islands in...
  • Spetsopoula
  • Romvi
  • Plateia
  • Psili
  • Agios Georgios
    Agios Georgios

    There are many places and churches that have the name 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


The Northern Sporades


Main islands


  • Skiathos
    Skiathos

    Skiathos , Latin forms: Sciathos and Sciathus is a small island in the Aegean Sea belonging to Greece. Near Skopelos, it consists of the main town and the communities of Koukounaries, Kanapitsa, Vromolimnos and Troullos....
  • Skopelos
    Skopelos

    Skopelos is a Greek island in the western Aegean sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group. The island is located east of mainland Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea and is part of the Prefecture of Magnesias in the Periphery of Thessaly....
  • Skyros
    Skyros

    Skyros is the southernmost island of the Sporades, a Greece 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....
  • Alonissos
    Alonissos

    Alonissos, Alonisos or Alonnisos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Sporades....


Other islands and islets



  • Adelfoi Islets
    Adelfoi Islets

    Adelfoi is a Greece island in the Sporades. The island is located about 10 km east-southeast of the main island of Alonissos and also administered by a municipality of the same main List of islands of Greece name....
  • Agios Georgios Skopelou
  • Argos Skiathou
  • Dasia
  • Erinia
    Erinia

    Erinia is a Greece island in the Sporades located west of Skyros....
  • Gioura
    Gioura

    Gioura is a Greece island and an abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonissos....
  • Grammeza
  • Kyra Panagia
    Kyra Panagia

    Kyra Panagia , also Kira Panagia or Kira Panayia is a Greece island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonissos in Magnesia Prefecture....
  • Lekhoussa
  • Peristera
    Peristera

    Peristera , also Aspro, locally Xero is a Greece island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonissos and is also directly east of the island of Alonissos....
  • Piperi
    Piperi, Greece

    Piperi is a Greece island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonissos and is also the Sporades' easternmost island....
  • Psathoura
    Psathoura

    Psathoura is a Greece List of islands of Greece in the Sporades. It is administratively a part of Alonissos and forms a depopulated sub-municipal district which is not officially a settlement....
  • Repio
    Repio

    Repio is a Greece island and an abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Skiathos....
  • Rineia Skyrou
  • Sarakino
    Sarakino

    Sarakino , older form Sarakinon is a Greece island in the Sporades south of Skyros.External links* ...
  • Skandili
  • Skantzoura
    Skantzoura

    Skantzoura is a Greece island in the Sporades. The island is located about 25 to 30 km east-southeast of the main island of Alonissos....

The Ionian islands



  • Antikythera
    Antikythera

    Antikythera is a Greece island Communities and Municipalities of Greece with a land area of 20.43 square kilometers, lying 38 kilometers south-east of Kythira....
  • Antipaxi
  • Arkoudi
    Arkoudi

    For the settlement in northwestern Ilia prefecture, see Arkoudi, GreeceArkoudi , older forms: Arkoudio and Arkoudion is a Greece island in the Echinades....
  • Atokos
    Atokos

    Atokos , is a Greece island in the Echinades. It is administered by the municipality of Ithaca and is northeast of the island....
  • Corfu
    Corfu

    Corfu is a Greece list of islands of Greece in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and lies off the coast of Sarand?, Albania, from which it is separated by straits varying in breadth from 3 to 23 km , including one near ancient Butrint and a longer one west of Thesprotia....
  • Drakonera
    Drakonera

    Drakonera or Dhragon?ra 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....
  • Elafonissos
  • Ereikoussa
    Ereikoussa

    Ereikoussa or Erikoussa is a Greece island in the Ionian Islands. It is a Communities and Municipalities of Greece, part of the Corfu Prefecture....
  • Ithaki or Ithaca
    Ithaca

    Ithaca or Ithaka is an island in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 118 km? and three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent Communities and Municipalities of Greece of the prefecture of Kefalonia and Ithaka Prefecture, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia....
  • Kalamos
  • Kastos
    Kastos

    Kastos is a List of islands of Greece and an administrative Communities and Municipalities of Greece of the Ionian Islands. It is part of the Lefkada prefecture....
  • Kefalonia
    Kefalonia

    The island of Kefalonia, also known as Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of 350 sq....
  • Kravia
  • Kythira
    Kythira

    Kythira is an island of Greece, historically part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the eastern tip of the Peloponnesos peninsula. It is administratively part of the Piraeus Prefecture although geographically distant from the prefecture's population center....
  • Kythros
  • Lazaretto
    Lazaretto (island)

    Lazaretto Island may refer to:*Lazaretto Island *Lazaretto Island in Zakynthos...
  • Lefkada
    Lefkada

    Lefkada, or Leucas is a Greece list of islands of Greece in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge....
  • Makri
    Makri

    Makri is a Greece 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 , older forms: -o and -on is a Greece island in the Ionian Islands. It is a community, part of the Corfu Prefecture. Population 297 ....
  • Meganisi
    Meganisi

    Meganisi or Meganissi , older forms: Meganision and Meganission is a Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece immediately to the east-southeast of the island of Lefkada....
  • Modia Islets
  • Othonoi
    Othonoi

    Othonoi or, Fano is the Westernmost: 39?51'7.1" N, 19?22'25.02" E Greece island in the Ionian Islands, located northwest of Corfu. It is a community, part of the Corfu Prefecture....
  • Oxeia
    Oxeia

    Oxeia is a Greece island. 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 meters....
  • Paxi
    Paxi

    Paxi 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 ....
  • Petalas
    Petalas

    Petalas or Petal? 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 identification of Dulichium with Makri, a nearby is...
  • Pistros
    Pistros

    Psitros is an islet east of Ithaca, one of the Ionian Islands in Greece....
  • Pontikos
    Pontikos

    Pontikos is also an isolated island near Hydra, Saronic Islands, see Pontikos Pontikos or Pondik?nisi , also Pondikos, Pontikonissi or Pontikonisi is an island of the Echinades, among the Ionian Islands group of Greece....
  • Provati
    Prováti

    Prov?ti 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....
  • Sparti Lefkados
  • Strofades
    Strofades

    Strofades is a small group of Greece islands in the Ionian Islands. They lie about 50 km south-southeast of the island of Zakynthos. The larger island is inhabited by one person, a monk who lives in the islands only real structure, an impressive old monastery....
  • Vidos
  • Vromonas
    Vromonas

    Vromonas or Vromona is a Greece island in the Ionian Islands located east of the island of Ithaca....
  • Zakynthos
    Zakynthos

    Zakynthos , the third largest of the Ionian Islands, covers an area of and its coastline is roughly in length. The island is named after Zakynthos , the son of a legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus....


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 group of several small islands situated in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greece close to the Turkey Aegean Coast which is part of the Dodecanese archipelago....
  • 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....
  • Astakida
  • Astypalaia
    Astypalaia

    Astipalea is a Greece island with 1,238 residents . It belongs to the Dodecanese, an island group of twelve major islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea....
  • Faradonesia
  • Farmakonisi
  • Fokionissia
  • Fragos
  • Gaidourosnissi Tilou
  • Glaros Kinarou
  • Gyali
    Gyali

    Gyali is a volcano Greece island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes and pumice deposits....
  • Halavra
  • Halki
  • Hiliomodi Patmou
  • Hondro
  • Htenies
  • Imia
  • Rho
  • Kalavros Kalymnou
  • Kalolimnos
    Kalolimnos

    Kalolimnos is a small Greece island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Imia, opposite the coast of Turkey. It is part of the municipality of K?lymnos....
  • Kalovolos
  • Kalymnos
    Kalymnos

    Kalymnos, is a Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece 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. The island is comprised of the Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Karpathos plus the community of Olympos, Karpathos....
  • Kasos
    Kasos

    Kasos is a Greece island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea. As of 2001, its population was 990....
  • Kastellorizo (Megisti)
  • Kinaros
  • Kos
    Kos

    Kos or Cos is a Greece island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of G?kova. It measures 40 km by 8 km, and is only 4 km from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria....
  • Koubelonisi
  • Kouloundros
  • Kouloura Leipson
  • Kounoupoi
  • Koutsomytis
  • Leipsoi
    Leipsoi

    Leipsoi is an island south of Samos Island 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....
  • Leros
    Leros

    Leros is a Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Dodecanese prefecture 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 ....
  • Levitha
  • 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 Volcano Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos....
  • Paheia Nisyrou
  • Patmos
    Patmos

    Patmos is a small Greece 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 34.05 km ....
  • Pergoussa
  • Piganoussa
  • Pitta
    Pitta

    Pitta may stand for:*Pitta , a genus of tropical birds*Pitta , an island in the Dodecanese archipelago, in the Aegean Sea*Pitta is one of the three dosha It corresponds to fire...
  • Plati Kasou
  • Plati Pserimou
  • Plati Symis
  • Pontikoussa
  • Prasonissi Rodhou
  • Prasouda
  • Pserimos
    Pserimos

    Pserimos is a small Greece island in the Dodecanese chain, lying between Kalymnos and Kos in front of the coast of Turkey. It is part of the municipality of K?lymnos, and reported a population of 130 inhabitants at the 2001 census....
  • Rhodos
    Rhodes

    Rhodes is a Greece List of islands of Greece approximately southwest of Turkey in 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 of which 53,709 resided in the Rhodes capital city of the island....
  • 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....
  • Seirina
  • Sesklio
  • Stroggyli Kastellorizou
  • Stroggyli
  • Strogulli Kritinias
  • Strogyli Kasou
  • Symi
    Symi

    Symi is a small but historic Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece....
  • 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 Greece islands near the south-west coast of Turkey....
  • Telendos
  • Tilos
    Tilos

    T?los is a small Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, and lies midway between Kos and Rhodes....
  • Tragonisi
  • Zafora
    Zafora

    Zafora is a small Greece island in the southern part of the Dodecanese chain, about south of the island Astypalaia....

Aegean islands


Islands of the central Aegean sea


  • Samos
    Samos Island

    Samos is a Greece island in the North Aegean sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the Ionian coast of Turkey....
    • Fournoi Korseon
      Fournoi Korseon

      Fourni Korseon more commonly Fourni, are a complex of small Greek Isles that lie between Icaria, Samos Island and Patmos in Samos Prefecture....
    • 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 Communities and Municipalities of Greece....
  • Ikaria
  • Chios
    Chios

    Chios is the fifth largest of the Greece list of islands of Greece, situated in the Aegean Sea seven kilometres off the Turkey coast. 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 9 small islands some 2km off the north-east coast of the Greece island of Chios and 8km west of Turkey, as well as a community and a municipality....
    • Psara
      Psara

      Psara is a Greece island in the Aegean Sea. It lies northwest of Khios as well as 22 km from the northwestern point of the island of Khios and 150 km eastnortheast of Athens....
    • Antipsara
      Antipsara

      Antipsara is a small, uninhabited Greece island in the Aegean Sea. It lies about 3 km west of the larger island Psara, from which its name is derived....
  • Lesbos
    Lesbos Island

    Lesbos is a Greece List of islands of Greece located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1632 Square kilometre with 320 kilometres of coastline, making it the third largest Greek island and the largest of the numerous Greek islands scattered in the Aegean....
    • Saint Eustratius
  • Lemnos
    Lemnos

    Lemnos is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the prefecture of Greece of Lesbos Prefecture and has a considerable area, about 477 km?....


Islands in the Thracian Sea
Thracian Sea

The Thracian Sea is a sea that is part of the Aegean Sea and forms the northernmost point of the sea. Regions surrounding the sea are Macedonia and Thrace as well as northwestern Turkey....
 


  • Samothraki
    Samothrace

    Samothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing deme in the prefecture of Evros, Greece. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 ....
  • Thasos
    Thasos

    Thasos or Thassos is a Greece island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Western Thrace and the plain of the river Mesta River but geographically part of Macedonia ....


The Cyclades


Cyclades comprise around 220 islands


  • Agios Efstathios
  • Agios Nikolaos Donoussas
  • Amorgos
    Amorgos

    Amorgos is the easternmost island of the Greece Cyclades island group, and that lying closest to the neighboring Dodecanese island group. Along with several neighboring islets, the largest of which is Nikouria Island, it comprises the Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Amorgos, which has a land area of 126.346 km?, and a population...
  • Anafi
    Anafi

    Anafi is a Greece island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades. In 2001, it had a population of 273 inhabitants. Its land area is 40.370 km?....
  • Andros
    Andros

    Andros, or Andro , an island of the Greece archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos....
  • Ano Antikeros
  • Antimilos
    Antimilos

    Antimilos is a Greece 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 ....
  • Anydros Amorgou
  • Askania
  • 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....
  • Despotiko
    Despotiko

    Despotik? , older form: -n is a Greece island in the Cyclades....
  • Donoussa
    Donoussa

    Donoussa or Donousa, also Denousa or Denoussa, is an island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades Prefecture of Greece....
  • Eskhati
  • Fidoussa
  • Folegandros
    Folegandros

    Folegandros, or Pholegandros, is a small Greece island in the Aegean Sea which, together with Sikinos, Ios, Anafi and Santorini, forms the southern part of the Cyclades....
  • Glaroni
  • Gramvoussa
  • Gyaros
    Gyaros

    Gyaros is an arid and unpopulated Greece island of the northern Cyclades near in the islands Andros and Tinos, with an area of 23 square kilometres....
  • Hristiana
  • Htapodia Mykonou
  • Ios
    Ios (Island)

    Ios is an island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. It is a part of Greece. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides, situated halfway between Naxos Island and Santorini....
  • Iraklia
    Irakleia, Cyclades

    Irakleia is an island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece that belongs to the Cyclades island complex of Greece. Its population was officially 151 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and its land area 17.795 km?....
  • Kalogiros
  • Kammeni
  • Kapititas
  • Kardiotissa
  • Kato Antikeros
  • Kato Kouphonissi
  • Kea
    Kea (island)

    Kea, , is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude and is considered quite picturesque....
  • Keros
    Keros

    Keros is an uninhabited Greece island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos Island. Administratively it is part of the Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Koufonisi....
  • Kimolos
    Kimolos

    Kimolos is a Greece 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....
  • Kitriani
  • Kouphonissi
  • Kramvonissi
  • Kythnos
    Kythnos

    Kythnos or Kithnos is a Greek island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos. It is from the harbor of Piraeus....
  • Liadi Island
  • Makronissos
  • Megalo
  • Milos
    Milos

    Milos , formerly known as ????? – Melos, and before the Athens massacre and recolonization in 416 BC as ????? – Malos, is a volcanic Greece island in the Sea of Crete, just south of the Aegean Sea....
  • Mykonos
    Mykonos

    Mykonos is a Greek island and a mass tourist destination, renowned for its cosmopolitan character and its intense nightlife. The island is part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Siros, Paros and Naxos, Greece....
  • Nata
  • Naxos
  • Nikouria
  • Pahia Anaphis
  • Pandros
  • 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....
    • Antiparos
      Antiparos

      Antiparos is an island in the island group Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, in the modern eparchy of Naxos Island, separated by a strait from the west coast of Paros: the boat trip is just ten minutes from Pounta, a little port on Paros which can be reached by bus or taxi, and about twenty minutes from the main port in Paros, Parikia....
  • Polyaigos
    Polyaigos

    Pol?aigos is an uninhabited Greece 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....
  • Rhineia
    Rhineia

    Rhineia is one of the Cyclades Islands, Greece. Its area is 14 km?. It had a small population until the 1980s, but is currently uninhabited....
  • Santorini
    Santorini

    Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcano islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast from Greece's mainland....
  • Schoinoussa
    Schoinoussa

    Schoinoussa is a Greece island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades. It lies south of the island of Naxos Island, in the Small Cyclades group, between the island communities of Irakleia, Cyclades and Koufonisi....
  • Serifopoula
    Serifopoula

    Serifopoula is a Greece island in the Cyclades. It is a part of the municipality of Serifos. Serifopoula was unpopulated at the 2001 Greek census....
  • Serifos
    Serifos

    Seriphos or Serifos is a Greece island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos....
  • Sifnos
    Sifnos

    Sifnos is an island Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades island group in Greece. The main town on the island is known as Apollonia located near the center of the island....
  • Sikinos
    Sikinos

    Sikinos is a Greece island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios Island and Folegandros....
  • Stroggyli Parou
  • Syros
    Syros

    Syros , or Siros or Syra is a Greece island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is located south-east of Athens. The island is home to the Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and Poseidonia....
  • Thirasia
  • Tinos
    Tinos

    Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In ancient times, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa ....
  • Vous


Crete and surrounding islands


  • Chrissi
    Chrissi

    Chrissi , the tiny uninhabited island, is roughly five kilometers long and one kilometer across. It lies 15 kilometers south of the Cretan city Ierapetra and can be reached via excursion boats several times daily, with the crossing taking little more than an hour....
  • Crete
    Crete

    Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
  • Dia
  • Gavdos
    Gavdos

    Gavdos or G?vdhos is the southernmost List of islands of Greece, located to the south of its much bigger neighbour, Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the prefecture of Chania Prefecture....
  • Gavdopoula
  • Paximadhia Mesaras
  • Agioi Theodoroi Chanion
  • Theodoropoula
  • Agria Gramvousa
  • Imeri Gramvousa
  • Valenti Falasarnon
  • Elafonisos Kritis
  • Koufonisi (Lefki)
  • Mikronisi Chrysis
  • Elasa
  • Gianisadha
  • Dragonadha
  • Paximadha
  • Kalydon (Spinalonga)
  • Petalidi Dia
  • Santorini/Thera
    Santorini

    Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcano islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast from Greece's mainland....


Euboea and surrounding islands


  • Euboea
    Euboea

    For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
  • Petalioi
  • Megalos Petalios
  • Mandilou
  • Hersonisi
  • Lithari
  • Manolia


Islets close to mainland


  • Trikeri (Thessalia)
  • Antitrikeri (Thessalia)
  • Alatas Trikeriou
  • Proti (Peloponnisos)
  • Sapientza (Peloponnisos)
  • Schiza (Peloponnisos)
  • Ammouliani (Halkidiki)
  • Kelifos (Halkidiki)
  • Kefalonia (islet)*


See also

  • List of islands in the Mediterranean
    List of islands in the Mediterranean

    This is a list of islands in the Mediterranean Sea:...
  • List of islands
    List of islands

    This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents. For rank-order lists, see the List_of_islands#Other_lists_of_islands below....
  • Aegean islands
    Aegean Islands

    The Aegean Islands are a 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....
  • List of Aegean Islands