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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....
 consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece
Peripheries of Greece

The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
, which are further subdivided into 3 super-prefectures
Super-prefectures of Greece

The super-prefectures of Greece are a second-degree organization of local self-government and an administrative division between the Peripheries of Greece and the Prefectures of Greece....
 and 54 prefectures or nomes (Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ??µ??, ??µ??, nomoi, singular nomos
Nomos

Nomos can refer to:* the subdivisions of Ancient Egypt, see Nome * the prefectures of Greece, the administrative division immediately below the Peripheries of Greece of Greece ...
).

According to the Constitution of Greece
Constitution of Greece

The Constitution of Greece , was created by the Fifth Revisional Parliament of the Hellenes and entered into force in 1975. It has been revised twice since, in 1986 and in 2001....
 the prefectures are mainly a second-degree organization of local self-government. They are not however hierarchically superior to the Communities and Municipalities of Greece
Communities and Municipalities of Greece

The municipalities and communities of Greece are one of several levels of government within the organizational structure of that country. Thirteen regions called Peripheries of Greece form the largest unit of government beneath the State....
. After the legislative reform of 1994 most of the administrative duties of the prefectures were transferred to the peripheries.






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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....
 consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece
Peripheries of Greece

The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
, which are further subdivided into 3 super-prefectures
Super-prefectures of Greece

The super-prefectures of Greece are a second-degree organization of local self-government and an administrative division between the Peripheries of Greece and the Prefectures of Greece....
 and 54 prefectures or nomes (Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ??µ??, ??µ??, nomoi, singular nomos
Nomos

Nomos can refer to:* the subdivisions of Ancient Egypt, see Nome * the prefectures of Greece, the administrative division immediately below the Peripheries of Greece of Greece ...
).

According to the Constitution of Greece
Constitution of Greece

The Constitution of Greece , was created by the Fifth Revisional Parliament of the Hellenes and entered into force in 1975. It has been revised twice since, in 1986 and in 2001....
 the prefectures are mainly a second-degree organization of local self-government. They are not however hierarchically superior to the Communities and Municipalities of Greece
Communities and Municipalities of Greece

The municipalities and communities of Greece are one of several levels of government within the organizational structure of that country. Thirteen regions called Peripheries of Greece form the largest unit of government beneath the State....
. After the legislative reform of 1994 most of the administrative duties of the prefectures were transferred to the peripheries. Nevertheless, they still keep certain administrative duties attributed to them by the central government (sanitary committees, urban-planning services etc.) and they are thus also legally regarded as administrative units of the central government.

The first prefectural elections took place in 1994. The prefects were previously appointed by the government.

Organization


The current "Prefectural Self-Governments" were formed in 1994 and replaced the previous prefectures, whose councils and prefects were appointed by the government.

Prefectures are governed by a Prefectural Council (??µa???a?? s?µß?????) made up of 21 to 37 members, led by the Prefect (??µ?????) and presided by a Council President (p??ed???).

Other organs of the prefectures are:
  • The Prefectural Committee, consisted of the Prefect or an assistant appointed by him and 4 to 6 members, elected by the Prefectural Council.
  • The Provincial Council
    Provinces of Greece

    The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of the country's prefectures of Greece. They were abolished after the Greek local elections, 2006, in line with Law 2539/1997 of the Greek Parliament....
     and
  • The Eparchos
    Provinces of Greece

    The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of the country's prefectures of Greece. They were abolished after the Greek local elections, 2006, in line with Law 2539/1997 of the Greek Parliament....
     (Sub-prefect, ?pa????).


Super-prefectures
Super-prefectures of Greece

The super-prefectures of Greece are a second-degree organization of local self-government and an administrative division between the Peripheries of Greece and the Prefectures of Greece....
 have their own organs (Council, Committee and Super-prefect).

Prefectural councillors are elected via public election every four years. Three-fifths of all seats go to the combination winning a majority and two-fifths of the seats go to remaining parties based on a proportional system. Prefect becomes the president of the victorious electoral combination. Electoral is a combination which attains more than 42% in the first round of the prefectural elections. If no combination passes this threshold, a second round takes place between the two combinations that took the most votes in the first round

Duties


The State ultimately oversees the actions of local governments, including the prefectures, but the Constitution of Greece
Constitution of Greece

The Constitution of Greece , was created by the Fifth Revisional Parliament of the Hellenes and entered into force in 1975. It has been revised twice since, in 1986 and in 2001....
 and the Code of Prefectural Self-Government still provide communities and municipalities with legal control over the administration of their designated areas.

The Code of Prefectural Self-Government does not include a non-restrictive list of prefectural duties, but a general rule, according to which the newly formed Prefectural Self-Governments have all the duties of the previous prefectures, which are related to their local affairs. Nonetheless, the affairs of "(central) state administration" belonging to the prefects before 1994 are now exerted by the Presidents of the Peripheries (pe??fe?e??????). The current Prefectural Self-Governments hve kept the "local affairs of prefectureal level" not belonging to the "(central) state administration".

With certain laws specific affairs of certain ministries were transferred to the Prefectural Self-Governments (sanitary committees, urban-planning services etc.).

List of prefectures





  1. (see below)
  2. 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....

  3. Evrytania
    Evrytania

    Evrytania is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the periphery of Central Greece and its capital is Karpenisi . The prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture....

  4. Phocis
    Phocis

    Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....

  5. Phthiotis
    Phthiotis

    Phthiotis is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia . It is bordered by the Maliac Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....

  6. Boeotia
    Boeotia Prefecture

    Boeotia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Central Greece periphery, and its area was known in ancient times. Its capital is Livadeia, the second largest city being Thebes, Greece, and the area has access to the island of Euboea via two bridges : one that runs through Chalcis, and another bypassing it with a further road...

  7. Chalkidiki
  8. Imathia
    Imathia Prefecture

    Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....

  9. Kilkis
    Kilkis Prefecture

    Kilkis is a prefectures of Greece in Central Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the city of Kilkis....

  10. Pella
    Pella Prefecture

    Pella is one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital town is Edessa, Greece. The prefecture was created out of the then gigantic Thessaloniki Prefecture in 1947 and is named after the ancient city Pella....

  11. Pieria
    Pieria

    Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....

  12. Serres
    Serres Prefecture

    Serres prefecture is a prefecture located in Central Macedonia, Greece. The total population reaches just over 200,000. The capital is Serres....

  13. Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki Prefecture

    Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....

  14. Chania
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....

  15. Heraklion
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....

  16. Lasithi
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....

  17. Rethymno
    Rethymno Prefecture

    Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....

  18. Drama
    Drama Prefecture

    Drama prefecture is a prefecture in northeastern Macedonia , Greece. The prefecture is the northernmost within the regions of Greece of Macedonia and the westernmost in the periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace....

  19. Evros
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....

  20. Kavala
    Kavala Prefecture

    Kavala prefecture is a prefecture in eastern Macedonia , Greece. Kavala serves as a capital city but mainly for Thrace because Greek Thrace had no permanent capital....

  21. Rhodope
    Rhodope Prefecture

    Rhodope is one of the prefectures of Greece. It lies in central western Thrace within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The prefecture is named after the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the north and most of the eastern part of its territory....

  22. Xanthi
    Xanthi Prefecture

    Xanthi is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. Xanthi has no or only one province. The capital of the prefecture is also called Xanthi....

  23. Arta
    Arta Prefecture

    Arta is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city of Arta, Greece. It is located north of the Ambracian Gulf....

  24. Ioannina
    Ioannina Prefecture

    Ioannina is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the north-western peripheries of Greece of Epirus . Its capital is the city of Ioannina....

  25. Preveza
    Preveza Prefecture

    Preveza is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city Preveza. It was one of the prefectures that had any provinces....

  26. Thesprotia
    Thesprotia

    'Thesprotia' is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. The capital is Igoumenitsa. Thesprotia is bounded by Albania to the north, the prefecture of Ioannina Prefecture to the east and Preveza in the south....





  1. Corfu
    Corfu Prefecture

    Corfu is a prefectures of Greece of Greece. It consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian Sea....

  2. Kefalonia and Ithaca
    Kefalonia and Ithaca Prefecture

    Kefalonia and Ithaka is a nomos in Greece, containing the Ionian islands of Kefalonia and Ithaka....

  3. 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....

  4. 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....

  5. Chios
    Chios Prefecture

    Chios Prefecture is a Greek political district, which provides two representatives to the Greek parliament. The Prefecture covers the islands of Chios, Psara, Antipsara and Oinousses....

  6. Lesbos
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....

  7. Samos
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...

  8. Arcadia
    Arcadia

    Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....

  9. Argolis
    Argolis

    Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....

  10. Corinthia
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....

  11. Laconia
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....

  12. Messinia
  13. 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....

  14. 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....

  15. Karditsa
    Karditsa Prefecture

    Karditsa is one of the prefectures of Greece. Located in the south-western Thessaly, it is primarily an agricultural prefecture. The name of the prefecture is derived from its capital Karditsa, a small city of approximately 35,000 people....

  16. Larissa
    Larissa Prefecture

    Larissa is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, in the Peripheries of Greece of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. The prefecture was created in 1881 after the war when most of Thessaly became a part of Greece and the entire region in 1913 after the Balkan Wars....

  17. Magnesia
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....

  18. Trikala
    Trikala Prefecture

    Trikala is a prefectures of Greece in northwestern Thessaly, Greece ; its capital is the city of Trikala. The prefecture was created in 1881 and Karditsa Prefecture separated in 1947, and contains Kalampaka and Meteora, with monasteries above the rocky ledges....

  19. Achaea
    Achaea

    Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....

  20. Aetolia-Acarnania
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....

  21. Elis
    Elis Prefecture

    Ilia is a Prefectures of Greece in the western Peloponnese and in the western part of Greece. The prefecture is part of the Peripheries of Greece of West Greece....

  22. Florina
    Florina Prefecture

    Fl?rina Prefecture is one of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in northwestern Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia....

  23. Grevena
    Grevena Prefecture

    Grevena is a prefectures of Greece in Greece. Its capital is the city of Grevena. Much of the prefecture is mountainous. According to the 2001 Greek census, Grevena is the least population density and third-least populous prefecture in Greece....

  24. Kastoria
    Kastoria Prefecture

    Kastoria Prefecture is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece of Greece. Its capital is the city of Kastoria, and its population was estimated at 51,934 inhabitants in the most recent census....

  25. Kozani
    Kozani Prefecture

    Kozani is a prefectures of Greece, located in western Macedonia . Its capital is the city of Kozani....


a Mount Athos
Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia , of northern Greece, called in Greek language Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain"....



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Prefectures of Attica
The periphery of Attica
Attica

Attica is a Peripheries of Greece in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. Attica is subdivided into the prefectures of Greece of Athens Prefecture, Piraeus Prefecture, East Attica and West Attica....
 (labelled 1 in the map above) consist of the following prefectures:

  1. Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  2. East Attica
    East Attica

    East Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Pallini, and the prefecture covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
  3. Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
  4. West Attica
    West Attica

    West Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Elefsina....

















List of landlocked prefectures





  • Drama
    Drama Prefecture

    Drama prefecture is a prefecture in northeastern Macedonia , Greece. The prefecture is the northernmost within the regions of Greece of Macedonia and the westernmost in the periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace....

  • Kilkis
    Kilkis Prefecture

    Kilkis is a prefectures of Greece in Central Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the city of Kilkis....

  • Pella
    Pella

    Pella was the Capital of the Ancient Greece Monarchy of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Greek Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions were made....

  • Florina
    Florina Prefecture

    Fl?rina Prefecture is one of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in northwestern Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia....

  • Kastoria
    Kastoria Prefecture

    Kastoria Prefecture is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece of Greece. Its capital is the city of Kastoria, and its population was estimated at 51,934 inhabitants in the most recent census....

  • Kozani
    Kozani Prefecture

    Kozani is a prefectures of Greece, located in western Macedonia . Its capital is the city of Kozani....





  • Grevena
    Grevena Prefecture

    Grevena is a prefectures of Greece in Greece. Its capital is the city of Grevena. Much of the prefecture is mountainous. According to the 2001 Greek census, Grevena is the least population density and third-least populous prefecture in Greece....

  • Ioannina
    Ioannina Prefecture

    Ioannina is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the north-western peripheries of Greece of Epirus . Its capital is the city of Ioannina....

  • Trikala
    Trikala Prefecture

    Trikala is a prefectures of Greece in northwestern Thessaly, Greece ; its capital is the city of Trikala. The prefecture was created in 1881 and Karditsa Prefecture separated in 1947, and contains Kalampaka and Meteora, with monasteries above the rocky ledges....

  • Karditsa
    Karditsa Prefecture

    Karditsa is one of the prefectures of Greece. Located in the south-western Thessaly, it is primarily an agricultural prefecture. The name of the prefecture is derived from its capital Karditsa, a small city of approximately 35,000 people....

  • Evrytania
    Evrytania

    Evrytania is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the periphery of Central Greece and its capital is Karpenisi . The prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture....





(Of the above, Florina
Florina Prefecture

Fl?rina Prefecture is one of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in northwestern Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia....
 and Kastoria
Kastoria Prefecture

Kastoria Prefecture is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece of Greece. Its capital is the city of Kastoria, and its population was estimated at 51,934 inhabitants in the most recent census....
 are doubly landlocked.)

List of prefectures consisting solely of islands or parts of islands





  • Corfu
    Corfu Prefecture

    Corfu is a prefectures of Greece of Greece. It consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian Sea....

  • Kefalonia and Ithaka
  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Lesbos
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....

  • Samos
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...





  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Chania
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....

  • Rethymno
    Rethymno Prefecture

    Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....

  • Heraklion
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....

  • Lasithi
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....




List of primarily mainland prefectures that also include islands





  • Evros
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
     (Samothrace
    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 ....
    )
  • Kavala
    Kavala Prefecture

    Kavala prefecture is a prefecture in eastern Macedonia , Greece. Kavala serves as a capital city but mainly for Thrace because Greek Thrace had no permanent capital....
     (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 ....
    )
  • Magnesia
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
     (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....
    , 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....
    , Alonnisos)
  • Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
     (Salamis
    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....
    , 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....
    , 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....
    , 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....
    , 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....
    , Kythera)



List of exclaves





  • Troizina is an exclave of the prefecture of Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
     on the northern coast of geographical Argolis
    Argolis

    Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....
    , bordering the prefecture of Argolis
    Argolis

    Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....
     on the south



List of prefectures bordering foreign countries


(traversing the border of Greece in an east-to-west direction)




  • Evros
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
     (Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    , Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    )
  • Rhodope
    Rhodope Prefecture

    Rhodope is one of the prefectures of Greece. It lies in central western Thrace within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The prefecture is named after the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the north and most of the eastern part of its territory....
     (Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    )
  • Xanthi
    Xanthi Prefecture

    Xanthi is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. Xanthi has no or only one province. The capital of the prefecture is also called Xanthi....
     (Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    )
  • Drama
    Drama Prefecture

    Drama prefecture is a prefecture in northeastern Macedonia , Greece. The prefecture is the northernmost within the regions of Greece of Macedonia and the westernmost in the periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace....
     (Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    )




  • Serres
    Serres Prefecture

    Serres prefecture is a prefecture located in Central Macedonia, Greece. The total population reaches just over 200,000. The capital is Serres....
     (Bulgaria
    Bulgaria

    The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
    , Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
  • Kilkis
    Kilkis Prefecture

    Kilkis is a prefectures of Greece in Central Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the city of Kilkis....
     (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
  • Pella
    Pella

    Pella was the Capital of the Ancient Greece Monarchy of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Greek Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions were made....
     (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
  • Florina
    Florina Prefecture

    Fl?rina Prefecture is one of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in northwestern Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia....
     (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
    )




  • Kastoria
    Kastoria Prefecture

    Kastoria Prefecture is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece of Greece. Its capital is the city of Kastoria, and its population was estimated at 51,934 inhabitants in the most recent census....
     (Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
    )
  • Ioannina
    Ioannina Prefecture

    Ioannina is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the north-western peripheries of Greece of Epirus . Its capital is the city of Ioannina....
     (Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
    )
  • Thesprotia
    Thesprotia

    'Thesprotia' is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. The capital is Igoumenitsa. Thesprotia is bounded by Albania to the north, the prefecture of Ioannina Prefecture to the east and Preveza in the south....
     (Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
    )



List of prefectures whose territorial sea abuts that of a foreign country





  • Corfu
    Corfu Prefecture

    Corfu is a prefectures of Greece of Greece. It consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian Sea....
     (Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
    )
  • Thesprotia
    Thesprotia

    'Thesprotia' is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. The capital is Igoumenitsa. Thesprotia is bounded by Albania to the north, the prefecture of Ioannina Prefecture to the east and Preveza in the south....
     (Albania
    Albania

    Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
    )




  • Evros
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
     (Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    )
  • Lesbos
    Lesbos Prefecture

    Lesbos is one of the Prefectures of Greece. It is part of the archipelagic Peripheries of Greece of the North Aegean. It borders the prefectures of Evros Prefecture in the north and Chios Prefecture in the south....
     (Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    )
  • 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....
     (Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    )
  • Samos
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...
     (Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    )
  • 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....
     (Turkey
    Turkey

    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
    )



List of geographically extremal prefectures





  • Easternmost prefecture: 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....
     (island of Kastellorizo)
  • Northernmost prefecture: Evros
    Evros

    Evros is:* the Greek name of the Maritsa river running through Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece* Evros Prefecture, a nomos in northern Greece....

  • Westernmost prefecture: 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....
     (island of 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....
    )
  • Southernmost prefecture: Chania
    Chania

    Chani? is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania Prefecture. It lies along the north coast of the island, about 70 km west of Rethymno and 145 km west of Heraklion....
     (island of 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....
    ). Also, the southernmost place of Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
    .



  • Prefecture with the longest distance between two of its points ("longest diameter"): 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....
     

    (draw a line from Anidros, an islet NW of 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 ....
    , to the islet of Stroggyli, the easternmost place in Greece, just east of Kastellorizo)


  • Prefecture with the shortest distance between two of its points ("shortest diameter"): Lefkas




List of prefectures that share a name with their capital





  • Xanthi
    Xanthi Prefecture

    Xanthi is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. Xanthi has no or only one province. The capital of the prefecture is also called Xanthi....

  • Drama
    Drama Prefecture

    Drama prefecture is a prefecture in northeastern Macedonia , Greece. The prefecture is the northernmost within the regions of Greece of Macedonia and the westernmost in the periphery of East Macedonia and Thrace....

  • Kavala
    Kavala Prefecture

    Kavala prefecture is a prefecture in eastern Macedonia , Greece. Kavala serves as a capital city but mainly for Thrace because Greek Thrace had no permanent capital....

  • Serres
    Serres Prefecture

    Serres prefecture is a prefecture located in Central Macedonia, Greece. The total population reaches just over 200,000. The capital is Serres....

  • Kilkis
    Kilkis Prefecture

    Kilkis is a prefectures of Greece in Central Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the city of Kilkis....

  • Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki Prefecture

    Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....

  • Ioannina
    Ioannina Prefecture

    Ioannina is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the north-western peripheries of Greece of Epirus . Its capital is the city of Ioannina....

  • Preveza
    Preveza Prefecture

    Preveza is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city Preveza. It was one of the prefectures that had any provinces....

  • Arta
    Arta Prefecture

    Arta is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the Epirus periphery. Its capital is the city of Arta, Greece. It is located north of the Ambracian Gulf....

  • Corfu
    Corfu Prefecture

    Corfu is a prefectures of Greece of Greece. It consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the Ionian Sea....

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Florina
    Florina Prefecture

    Fl?rina Prefecture is one of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in northwestern Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia....





  • Grevena
    Grevena Prefecture

    Grevena is a prefectures of Greece in Greece. Its capital is the city of Grevena. Much of the prefecture is mountainous. According to the 2001 Greek census, Grevena is the least population density and third-least populous prefecture in Greece....

  • Kastoria
    Kastoria Prefecture

    Kastoria Prefecture is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece of Greece. Its capital is the city of Kastoria, and its population was estimated at 51,934 inhabitants in the most recent census....

  • Kozani
    Kozani Prefecture

    Kozani is a prefectures of Greece, located in western Macedonia . Its capital is the city of Kozani....

  • Larissa
    Larissa Prefecture

    Larissa is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, in the Peripheries of Greece of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. The prefecture was created in 1881 after the war when most of Thessaly became a part of Greece and the entire region in 1913 after the Balkan Wars....

  • Trikala
    Trikala Prefecture

    Trikala is a prefectures of Greece in northwestern Thessaly, Greece ; its capital is the city of Trikala. The prefecture was created in 1881 and Karditsa Prefecture separated in 1947, and contains Kalampaka and Meteora, with monasteries above the rocky ledges....

  • Karditsa
    Karditsa Prefecture

    Karditsa is one of the prefectures of Greece. Located in the south-western Thessaly, it is primarily an agricultural prefecture. The name of the prefecture is derived from its capital Karditsa, a small city of approximately 35,000 people....

  • Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....

  • Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....

  • 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....

  • Samos
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...

  • Chania
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....

  • Rethymno
    Rethymno Prefecture

    Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....

  • Heraklion
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....




List of prefectures whose capital is not their largest city



  • Chalkidiki (capital: Polygyros
    Polygyros

    Polygyros is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Central Macedonia, the capital of the Prefecture of Chalkidiki. Polygyros is south of Greece Interstate 16 ....
    ; largest city: Nea Moudania
    Nea Moudania

    Nea Moudania is the main town of the municipality of Moudania, Greece, with a population of 17,032 inhabitants Halkidiki's most populous town. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial centre of the whole prefecture....
    )
  • Pella
    Pella

    Pella was the Capital of the Ancient Greece Monarchy of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Greek Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions were made....
     (capital: Edessa
    Edessa, Greece

    Edessa is the capital of the Pella Prefecture of Macedonia , Greece. Administratively, it belongs to the Central Macedonia peripheries of Greece and is also the capital of the defunct provinces of Greece of the same name....
    ; largest city: Giannitsa
    Giannitsa

    Giannitsa or Yannitsa is the largest town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in the Pella Prefecture of Macedonia , Greece. It chief importance is as an agricultural centre - especially since it is 40 km from Thessaloniki....
    )
  • Boeotia
    Boeotia Prefecture

    Boeotia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Central Greece periphery, and its area was known in ancient times. Its capital is Livadeia, the second largest city being Thebes, Greece, and the area has access to the island of Euboea via two bridges : one that runs through Chalcis, and another bypassing it with a further road...
     (capital: Livadia
    Livadia

    Livadia can refer to:* Livadiya , a suburb of Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, where the Livadia Palace is situated.* Livadiya, Primorsky Krai, a suburb of Nakhodka, Russia, near Mount Livadia...
    ; largest city: Thiva)
  • Aetolia-Akarnania (capital: Mesologgi; largest city: Agrinio
    Agrinio

    Agrinion is the largest city and a municipality of the Aetolia-Acarnania prefectures of Greece of Greece, with about 100,000 inhabitants home to around a quarter of the prefecture's population....
    )
  • West Attica
    West Attica

    West Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Elefsina....
     (capital: Elefsis; largest city: Megara
    Megara

    Megara is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis Island, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens....
    )
  • East Attica
    East Attica

    East Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Pallini, and the prefecture covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
     (capital: Pallini
    Pallini

    Pallini or Palini , ancient form and Latin: Pallene, is a suburb in the northeastern part of Athens, Greece. It is located east of Athens, midway between it and the Petalies Gulf....
    ; largest city: Acharnes
    Acharnes

    Acharnes is a suburb of Athens also known as Menidi . It is the most populous Communities and Municipalities of Greece in East Attica Prefecture....
    )
  • Argolis
    Argolis

    Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....
     (capital: Nafplion
    Nafplion

    Nafplion or Nauplion is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf....
    ; largest city: Argos
    Argos

    Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour, named for Nauplius ....
    )
  • Lasithi
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
     (capital: Agios Nikolaos
    Agios Nikolaos

    Agios Nikolaos or Ayios Nikolaos is a common place name in Greece and Cyprus since Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors and of all of Greece....
    ; largest city: Ierapetra
    Ierapetra

    Ierapetra is a municipality and a town in the east of the Greece island of Crete, in the prefecture of Lasithi. The municipality has an area of 394.774 square kilometres and a population of 23,707 ....
    )



List of prefectures with the less populous capitals




  1. Chalkidiki (capital: Polygyros
    Polygyros

    Polygyros is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Central Macedonia, the capital of the Prefecture of Chalkidiki. Polygyros is south of Greece Interstate 16 ....
     with a population of 6,232)
  2. Samos
    Samos Prefecture

    Samos Prefecture consists of the islands of Samos Island, Ikaria and the smaller islands of Fournoi Korseon. Its capital and main passenger port is the town of Vathy, Samos, also called Samos; other harbours are the island's second most populated town of Karlovassi and Pythagoreion , a village in the same place as the capital of Samos during...
     (capital: Vathy
    Vathy, Samos

    Vathy , also known as Samos, is a Communities and Municipalities of Greece on the island of Samos Island in eastern Greece. It is the capital and main town of the Samos Island and Samos Prefecture....
     with a population of 6,275)
  3. Evrytania
    Evrytania

    Evrytania is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the periphery of Central Greece and its capital is Karpenisi . The prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture....
     (capital: Karpenisi
    Karpenisi

    Karpenisi , also Karpenissi, older forms: Karpenisio, Karpenissio, Karpenision and Karpenission is a town in central Greece....
     with a population of 6,775)
  4. Phokis (capital: Amfissa
    Amfissa

    File:AMPHISSA 1918.jpgAmfissa is a municipality and the capital town of the prefecture of Phocis, in Greece. It is also known as Salona , which was the Middle Ages name of the town....
     with a population of 6,946)
  5. Lefkas (capital: Lefkas with a population of 7,548)
  6. Thesprotia
    Thesprotia

    'Thesprotia' is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Epirus periphery. The capital is Igoumenitsa. Thesprotia is bounded by Albania to the north, the prefecture of Ioannina Prefecture to the east and Preveza in the south....
     (capital: Igoumenitsa
    Igoumenitsa

    Igoumenitsa is a coastal city in northwestern Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture Thesprotia. Its original ancient name used to be Titani....
     with a population of 9,104)
  7. Kefalonia and Ithaca
    Kefalonia and Ithaca Prefecture

    Kefalonia and Ithaka is a nomos in Greece, containing the Ionian islands of Kefalonia and Ithaka....
     (capital: Argostoli
    Argostoli

    Argostoli has been the capital and administrative centre of Kefalonia, Greece, since 1757, following a population shift down from the old capital of Agios Georgios to take advantage of the trading opportunities provided by the sheltered bay upon which Argostoli sits....
     with a population of 9,522)
  8. Grevena
    Grevena

    Grevena is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Greece, capital of the Grevena Prefecture. The towns's current population is 10,177 citizens; it lies about 400 km from Athens and about 180 km from Thessaloniki....
     (capital: Grevena
    Grevena

    Grevena is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Greece, capital of the Grevena Prefecture. The towns's current population is 10,177 citizens; it lies about 400 km from Athens and about 180 km from Thessaloniki....
     with a population of 10,447)
  9. Lasithi
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
     (capital: Agios Nikolaos
    Agios Nikolaos

    Agios Nikolaos or Ayios Nikolaos is a common place name in Greece and Cyprus since Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors and of all of Greece....
     with a population of 10,906)
  10. 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....
     (capital: 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....
     with a population of 11,224)



List of prefectures with the most populous capitals




  1. Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
     (capital: 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....
     with a population of 745,514. Note: the Athens metropolitan complex transcends the boundaries of the Athens prefecture, and has a cumulative population of 3,7 million)
  2. Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki Prefecture

    Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....
     (capital: Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki

    Thessaloniki , Thessalonica, or Salonica is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country in Greece and the capital of Macedonia , the nation's largest Regions of Greece....
     with a population of 363,987 ; metropolitan area population at approximately 809,457)
  3. Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
     (capital: Piraeus
    Piraeus

    Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
     with a population of 175,697 ; part of the wider Athens metropolitan complex)
  4. Achaea
    Achaea

    Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....
     (capital: Patras
    Patras

    Patras is Greece's third largest urban centre and the capital of the prefecture of Achaea, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens....
     with a population of 161,114)
  5. Heraclion (capital: Heraclion with a population of 133,012)
  6. Larisa (capital: Larisa with a population of 124,786)
  7. Magnesia
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
     (capital: Volos
    Volos

    Volos is a coastal port city situated at the center of the Greece mainland, about 326 km north from Athens and 215 km south from Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia Prefectures of Greece....
     with a population of 82,439)
  8. Ioannina
    Ioannina

    Ioannina is a city of Epirus , north-western Greece, with a metropolitan population of approximately 100,000, and lies at an elevation of 600 metres above sea level....
     (capital: Ioannina
    Ioannina

    Ioannina is a city of Epirus , north-western Greece, with a metropolitan population of approximately 100,000, and lies at an elevation of 600 metres above sea level....
     with a population of 61,629)
  9. Kavala
    Kavala

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

    Kavala , is the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala prefecture. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos....
     with a population of 60,802)
  10. Serres
    Serres Prefecture

    Serres prefecture is a prefecture located in Central Macedonia, Greece. The total population reaches just over 200,000. The capital is Serres....
     (capital: Serres
    Serres, Greece

    S?rres is a city in Macedonia , Greece. It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km north-east of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki....
     with a population of 54,666)



List of largest cities that are not prefecture capitals




  1. Peristeri
    Peristeri

    Peristeri , older forms Peristerio and Peristerion is a suburban municipality in Athens, Greece, located about 5 km NW of the downtown area....
     (population: 137,918; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  2. Kallithea
    Kallithea

    Kallithea is the 8th biggest municipality in Greece and the 4th biggest in Greater Athens . Additionally, it is the population density municipality in Greece , with 23,080.4 inhabitants / km?....
     (population: 109,609; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  3. Nikaia
    Nikaia, Attica

    Nikaia or Nikea is a suburb in the west southwestern part of Athens, Greece. The mountaintop of the southern part of Aigaleo lies to the north....
     (population: 93,086; prefecture: Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  4. Kalamaria
    Kalamaria

    Kalamari? is a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is a municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area, located about 5 km southeast of downtown Thessaloniki....
     (population: 87,255; prefecture: Thessalonica
    Thessaloniki Prefecture

    Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....
    )

  5. Ilio
    Ilio, Greece

    Ilion , previously named Nea Liossia , is a suburb in the west-northwest part of Athens, Greece. The two mountaintops of Aigaleo lie to the west....
     (population: 80,859; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  6. Glyfada
    Glyfada

    Glyfada is a suburb of Athens, situated in the southern parts of the Athens Metropolitan Area. The City, which is home to many of Greece's millionaires, ministers and celebrities, stretches out from the foot of the Hymettus mountain and reaches out to embrace the Saronic Gulf....
     (population: 80,409; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  7. Zografou
    Zografou

    Zografou is a suburb in the eastern part of Athens, Greece. It is located about 5 km from downtown Athens, 2 km SW of Katechaki Avenue, 4 km from the Hymettus Ring forming part of the Attiki Odos private superhighway network, and 3 km E of Kifissias Avenue....
     (population: 76,115; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  8. Keratsini
    Keratsini

    Keratsini , older forms Keratsinio and Keratsinion is a suburb in the west southwestern part of Athens, Greece. Drapetsona Bay lies to the southwest....
     (population: 76,102; prefecture: Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  9. Ilioupoli
    Ilioupoli

    Ilioupoli , older forms: Hilioupoli and Ilioupolis is a suburb in the south-southeastern part of metropolitan Athens, Greece. The city is passed by a road that links to Katechaki and Vouliagmenis Avenue to the southeast and has three entrances and a street linking Elliniko and Vyronas along with Ymittos....
     (population: 75,904; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  10. Acharnes
    Acharnes

    Acharnes is a suburb of Athens also known as Menidi . It is the most populous Communities and Municipalities of Greece in East Attica Prefecture....
     (population: 75,341; prefecture: East Attica
    East Attica

    East Attica is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica. The capital of the prefecture is the town of Pallini, and the prefecture covers the eastern part of the agglomeration of Athens, and also the rural area to its east....
    )

  11. Egaleo
    Egaleo

    Aegaleo, commonly Aigaleo or Egaleo is a municipality west of Athens, Greece, situated west of the Cephissus river and southeast of Egaleo ....
     (population: 74,046; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  12. Nea Smyrni
    Nea Smyrni

    Nea Smyrni or Nea Smirni is a relatively upscale southern suburb of Athens, Greece. Nea Smyrni is located about 5 km SW of downtown Athens, about 5 km SW of Kifissias Avenue, W of Vouliagmenis Avenue, about 6 km E of Piraeus, and NE of Poseidonos Avenue....
     (population: 73,986; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  13. Chalandri
    Chalandri

    Chalandri , older form Chalandrion and in Ancient Greek Flya is a northern suburb in Athens, Greece. It is the birthplace of Euripides....
     (population: 71,684; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  14. Amarousio (population: 69,470; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  15. Korydallos
    Korydallos

    Korydallos is a municipality which belongs to Piraeus Prefecture, Greece in the western suburbs of Athens. It is the home of the Korydallos prisons....
     (population: 67,456; prefecture: Piraeus
    Piraeus Prefecture

    Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  16. Nea Ionia
    Nea Ionia

    Nea Ionia is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. It has a surface train station . The suburb was named after Ionia, the region in Anatolia from which many Greeks migrated in the 1920s....
     (population: 66,017; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  17. Agios Dimitrios
    Agios Dimitrios

    Agios Dimitrios is a suburb in the southern part of Athens, Greece. Several main roads pass through the city. It is also linked to Katechaki, Vouliagmenis Avenue to the east, Poseidonos Avenue ...
     (population: 65,173; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  18. Paleo Faliro (population: 64,759; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  19. Vironas (population: 61,102; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  20. Galatsi
    Galatsi

    Galatsi , called in Katharevousa Galatsion , is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, and a municipality of the Athens Prefecture. Until the mid-20th century, the area was mainly made up of farmlands but due to the continuous expansion of the Greek capital, Galatsi was rapidly urbanised and has come to lie in the center of the Athens agg...
     (population: 58,042; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  21. Evosmos
    Evosmos

    Evosmos is a Borough of Thessaloniki. It has a land area of 9.927 km?. The population is 52,624 . Due to rapid development, the population is expected to rise dramatically by the next census in 2011....
     (population: 52,624; prefecture: Thessalonica
    Thessaloniki Prefecture

    Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....
    )

  22. Petroupoli
    Petroupoli

    Petroupoli is a suburb in the northwestern part of Athens Metropolitan Area, in Greece. The two peaks of Mount Aigaleo lie to the north and west of the suburb, and is located ESE of Eleusis, S of the Attiki Odos , W of Kifissou Avenue ...
     (population: 48,327; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  23. Chaidari
    Chaidari

    Chaidari or Haidari , older forms Haidarion and Chaidarion is a suburb in the west northwestern part of Athens, Greece. The two mountaintops of Aigaleo lies to the north and south....
     (population: 46,276; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  24. Iraklio Attikis (population: 45,926; prefecture: Athens
    Athens Prefecture

    Athens is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
    )

  25. Agrinio
    Agrinio

    Agrinion is the largest city and a municipality of the Aetolia-Acarnania prefectures of Greece of Greece, with about 100,000 inhabitants home to around a quarter of the prefecture's population....
     (population: 44,030; prefecture: Aetolia-Acarnania
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
    ) [the largest non-capital that is not a suburb of Athens, Piraeus, or Thessalonica]



List of prefectures that border a single other prefecture





  1. Chalcidice
    Chalcidice

    Chalkidiki, also Halkidiki or Chalcidice, less often Khalkidiki and rarely Chalkidice , is one of the prefectures of Greece....
     (borders Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki Prefecture

    Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....
    ; also borders Mount Athos
    Mount Athos

    Mount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia , of northern Greece, called in Greek language Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain"....
    , which is not a province stricto sensu)
  2. Chania
    Chania Prefecture

    Chania prefecture is one of the four prefectures of Greece of Crete; it covers the westernmost quarter of the island. Its capital is the city of Chania....
     (borders Rethymno
    Rethymno Prefecture

    Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....
    )
  3. Lasithi
    Lasithi

    Lasithi is the easternmost prefecture on the island of Crete, to the east of the prefecture of Heraklion Prefecture. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, Crete, the other major towns being Ierapetra, Sitia and Neapoli, Crete....
     (borders Heraklion
    Heraklion Prefecture

    Heraklion , also Heraklio is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, one of the four prefectures of Crete. The capital is the city of Heraklion....
    )
  4. Evros
    Evros Prefecture

    The Evros Prefecture is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the regions of Greece of Western Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Maritsa river....
     (borders Rhodope
    Rhodope Prefecture

    Rhodope is one of the prefectures of Greece. It lies in central western Thrace within the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The prefecture is named after the Rhodope Mountains, which cover the north and most of the eastern part of its territory....
    )



List of prefectures that border the most (seven, 7) other prefectures


(prefectures bordered ordered in an anti-clockwise manner)




  1. Kozani
    Kozani

    Kozani is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani Prefecture and of West Macedonia periphery. It is located in the western part of Macedonia , in the northern part of the Aliakmonas valley....
     (borders Imathia
    Imathia Prefecture

    Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
    , Pella
    Pella

    Pella was the Capital of the Ancient Greece Monarchy of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Greek Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions were made....
    , Florina
    Florina

    Fl?rina is a town and Municipalities and communities of Greece in mountainous northwestern Macedonia , Greece and its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'....
    , Kastoria
    Kastoria

    Kastoria is a city in northern Greece in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria Prefecture, located at . The town's population is estimated as some 20,660 people ....
    , Grevena
    Grevena

    Grevena is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Greece, capital of the Grevena Prefecture. The towns's current population is 10,177 citizens; it lies about 400 km from Athens and about 180 km from Thessaloniki....
    , Larisa, Pieria
    Pieria

    Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
    )
  2. Larisa (borders Pieria
    Pieria

    Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
    , Kozani
    Kozani

    Kozani is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani Prefecture and of West Macedonia periphery. It is located in the western part of Macedonia , in the northern part of the Aliakmonas valley....
    , Grevena
    Grevena

    Grevena is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Greece, capital of the Grevena Prefecture. The towns's current population is 10,177 citizens; it lies about 400 km from Athens and about 180 km from Thessaloniki....
    , Trikala
    Trikala

    Trikala is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece. It is the capital of the Trikala Prefecture, and is located NW of Athens, NW of Karditsa , Greece, E of Ioannina and Metsovo, S of Grevena, SW of Thessaloniki, and W of Larissa....
    , Karditsa
    Karditsa

    Karditsa is a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The city of Karditsa is the capital of Karditsa Prefecture.Inhabitation is attested from 9000 BCE....
    , Phthiotis
    Phthiotis

    Phthiotis is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia . It is bordered by the Maliac Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....
    , Magnesia
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
    )
  3. Phthiotis
    Phthiotis

    Phthiotis is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia . It is bordered by the Maliac Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....
     (borders Magnesia
    Magnesia

    Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
    , Larisa, Karditsa
    Karditsa

    Karditsa is a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The city of Karditsa is the capital of Karditsa Prefecture.Inhabitation is attested from 9000 BCE....
    , Evrytania
    Evrytania

    Evrytania is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the periphery of Central Greece and its capital is Karpenisi . The prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture....
    , Aetolia-Akarnania, Phokis, Boeotia
    Boeotia

    Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
    )



List of prefectures that are part of the Greek state since independence





  • Attica
  • Boeotia
    Boeotia Prefecture

    Boeotia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Central Greece periphery, and its area was known in ancient times. Its capital is Livadeia, the second largest city being Thebes, Greece, and the area has access to the island of Euboea via two bridges : one that runs through Chalcis, and another bypassing it with a further road...

  • Phthiotis
    Phthiotis

    Phthiotis is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia . It is bordered by the Maliac Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....

  • Phocis
    Phocis

    Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....

  • Evrytania
    Evrytania

    Evrytania is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the periphery of Central Greece and its capital is Karpenisi . The prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture....

  • 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....

  • Aetolia-Acarnania
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....

  • 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....





  • Corinthia
    Corinthia

    Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....

  • Argolis
    Argolis

    Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....

  • Arcadia
    Arcadia

    Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....

  • Laconia
    Laconia

    Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a Prefectures of Greece, with Sparti its administrative capital....

  • Messinia
  • Achaea
    Achaea

    Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....

  • Elis
    Elis Prefecture

    Ilia is a Prefectures of Greece in the western Peloponnese and in the western part of Greece. The prefecture is part of the Peripheries of Greece of West Greece....




Notes:
  1. Many of the prefectures were originally combined in pairs:
    1. Attica and Boeotia
      Boeotia Prefecture

      Boeotia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Central Greece periphery, and its area was known in ancient times. Its capital is Livadeia, the second largest city being Thebes, Greece, and the area has access to the island of Euboea via two bridges : one that runs through Chalcis, and another bypassing it with a further road...
       formed Attica-Boeotia
    2. Phthiotis
      Phthiotis

      Phthiotis is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia . It is bordered by the Maliac Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....
       and Phocis
      Phocis

      Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....
       formed Phthiotis-Phocis
    3. Corinthia
      Corinthia

      Corinthia is the area around the city of Corinth, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the Peripheries of Greece of Peloponnese....
       and Argolis
      Argolis

      Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....
       formed Argolia-Corinthia
    4. Achaea
      Achaea

      Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefectures of Greece of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus projects....
       and Elis
      Elis

      Elis, or Eleia is an ancient district, that corresponds with the modern Elis Prefecture. It is in southern Greece on the Peloponnesos peninsula, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea....
       formed Elis-Achaia
  2. Aetolia-Acarnania
    Aetolia-Acarnania

    Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
     originally also included Evrytania. Unlike the rest mentioned above, the prefecture never broke up into two prefectures, thus being the only one left with a composite appellation.
  3. Messinia originally included the southern half of what is now Elis.
  4. Laconia originally included the southern-eastern half of what is now Messinia.
  5. Eboea originally included the islands of what is now Magnesia.
  6. The territory of Phthiotis
    Phthiotis

    Phthiotis is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia . It is bordered by the Maliac Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....
     did not originally include the province of Domokos
    Domokos

    Domokos is a municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Population 5,692 ....
    , which was part of Thessaly
    Thessaly

    Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
     (under Ottoman rule until 1881). The area currently constituting the Domokos
    Domokos

    Domokos is a municipality in Phthiotis, Greece. Population 5,692 ....
     province of the prefecture of Fthiotis only became a part of the Greek state in general, and of Fthiotis in particular, after the annexation of Thessaly to Greece in 1881.
  7. Arcadia and the Cyclades are the only prefectures to have their borders unchanged since independence.
  8. The capital of Argolis
    Argolis

    Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnesos. Most arable land lies in the central part....
    , Nafplion
    Nafplion

    Nafplion or Nauplion is a seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf....
     was the first capital of the modern Greek state (1828-1834), before the moving of the capital to 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....
     by King Otto
    Otto of Greece

    Otto of Bavaria was made the first modern king of First Kingdom of Greece in 1832 under the London Conference of 1832, whereby Greece became a new independent monarchy under the protection of the Great Powers ....
    .


See also

  • List of the prefectures of Greece by area
    List of the prefectures of Greece by area

    This is a list of the prefectures of Greece, in order of descending area. Although Mount Athos is not a prefecture, it is included here merely to complete the area of Greece, which is 131,957.413 km?....
  • List of the prefectures of Greece by population density
    List of the prefectures of Greece by population density

    This is a list of the prefectures of Greece, in order of descending population density according to the 2001 census "real" population figures and List of the prefectures of Greece by area....
  • List of the prefectures of Greece by population
    List of the prefectures of Greece by population

    This is a list of the prefectures of Greece, in order of descending population .See also:*List of the prefectures of Greece by area*List of the prefectures of Greece by population density...


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