Subdivisions of Greece
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Administrative divisions

See also: Administrative divisions of Greece
  • Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

  • Peripheries of Greece
    Peripheries of Greece
    The current official regional administrative divisions of Greece were instituted in 1987. Although best translated into English as "regions", the transcription peripheries is sometimes used, perhaps to distinguish them from the traditional regions which they replaced. The English word 'periphery'...

     / 13, pεριφέρειες / NUTS 2
  • Peripheral units of Greece
    Peripheral units of Greece
    The 74 regional units are administrative units of Greece. They are subdivisions of the country's 13 regions, further subdivided into municipalities. They were introduced as part of the "Kallikratis" administrative reform on 1 January 2011 and are comparable in size and often coterminous with the...

     / 74 / Περιφερειακή ενότητα / NUTS 3
  • Prefectures of Greece
    Prefectures of Greece
    During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...

     (first existing 1833, last abolished 2010, by 2010 there existed 51) / , called departments in ISO 3166-2:GR
    ISO 3166-2:GR
    ISO 3166-2:GR is the entry for Greece in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Greece, ISO 3166-2 codes are...

  • Provinces of Greece
    Provinces of Greece
    The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially finance services and education, as well as for electoral purposes...

     147, last abolished 2006, / , "eparchy
    Eparchy
    Eparchy is an anglicized Greek word , authentically Latinized as eparchia and loosely translating as 'rule over something,' like province, prefecture, or territory, to have the jurisdiction over, it has specific meanings both in politics, history and in the hierarchy of the Eastern Christian...

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  • Municipalities of Greece
  • LAU 2 Municipal districts/Community districts (Demotiko diamerisma/Koinotiko diamerisma) 6130
  • Super-prefectures of Greece
    Super-prefectures of Greece
    The super-prefectures of Greece were a second-degree organization of local self-government and an administrative division between the regions and the prefectures. They were each headed by an elected but largely ceremonial super-prefect, with most of the prefectural duties performed by the prefects...

     / there were 3


Other

  • Parliamentary constituencies of Greece
  • Regions of Greece
    Regions of Greece
    The traditional geographic divisions of Greece were also the official administrative subdivisions of Greece until the 1987 administrative reform )...

     / 9 regions, six with land on the mainland and three only including islands / , geografika diamerísmata, lit. geographic departments
  • NUTS of Greece
    NUTS of Greece
    In the NUTS codes of Greece , the three levels are:-NUTS codes:* GR1 VOREIA ELLADA** GR11 Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki*** GR111 Evros Prefecture*** GR112 Xanthi Prefecture...

    • NUTS1 Groups of development regions
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