List of islands of Greece

Greece has many islands,^{[Note 1]} with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200^[1] to 6,000,^[2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166^[3] and 227.^[2]

The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea. The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.

The Greek islands are traditionally grouped into the following clusters: the Argo-Saronic Islands in the Saronic Gulf near Athens; the Cyclades, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea; the North Aegean islands, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey; the Dodecanese, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey; the Sporades, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea; and the Ionian Islands, chiefly located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea. Crete with its surrounding islets and Euboea are traditionally excluded from this grouping.

This article excludes the Peloponnese, which has technically been an island since the construction of the Corinth Canal in 1893, but is rarely considered to be an island due to its artificial origins.

A NASA image of Crete

A NASA image of Rhodes

Ithaca is to the upper right of the larger Kefalonia island in this picture. The small island in the top-right corner is the uninhabited Atokos island.

The following are the 50 largest Greek islands listed by surface area.

	Island	Greek name	Area (km²)	Area (miles²)	Cluster
1	Crete	Κρήτη	8,336	3,219	Cretan
2	Evia	Εύβοια	3,670	1,417	Euboean
3	Lesbos	Λέσβος	1,633	631	North Aegean Islands
4	Rhodes	Ρόδος	1,401	541	Dodecanese
5	Chíos	Χίος	842.3	325	North Aegean Islands
6	Kefalonia	Κεφαλονιά	781	302	Ionian Islands
7	Corfu	Κέρκυρα	592.9	229	Ionian Islands
8	Lemnos	Λήμνος	477.6	184	North Aegean Islands
9	Samos	Σάμος	477.4	184	North Aegean Islands
10	Naxos	Νάξος	429.8	166	Cyclades
11	Zakynthos	Ζάκυνθος	406	157	Ionian Islands
12	Thassos	Θάσος	380.1	147	North Aegean Islands
13	Andros	Άνδρος	380.0	147	Cyclades
14	Lefkada	Λευκάδα	303	117	Ionian Islands
15	Karpathos	Κάρπαθος	300	116	Dodecanese
16	Kos	Κως	290.3	112	Dodecanese
17	Kythira	Κύθηρα	279.6	108	Ionian Islands
18	Icaria	Ικαρία	255	98	North Aegean Islands
19	Skyros	Σκύρος	209	81	Sporades
20	Paros	Πάρος	195	75	Cyclades
21	Tinos	Τήνος	194	75	Cyclades
22	Samothrace	Σαμοθράκη	178	69	North Aegean Islands
23	Milos	Μήλος	151	58	Cyclades
24	Kea	Κέα	132	51	Cyclades
25	Amorgos	Αμοργός	121	47	Cyclades
26	Kalymnos	Κάλυμνος	110	42	Dodecanese
27	Ios	Ίος	108	42	Cyclades
28	Kythnos	Κύθνος	99.4	38	Cyclades
29	Astypalaia	Αστυπάλαια	96.4	37	Dodecanese
30	Ithaca	Ιθάκη	96.2	37	Ionian Islands
31	Salamis	Σαλαμίνα	96.2	37	Argo-Saronic
32	Skopelos	Σκόπελος	96.2	37	Sporades
33	Mykonos	Μύκονος	85.5	33	Cyclades
34	Syros	Σύρος	83.6	32	Cyclades
35	Aegina	Αίγινα	82.6	32	Argo-Saronic
36	Santorini	Σαντορίνη	76.2	29	Cyclades
37	Serifos	Σέριφος	75.2	29	Cyclades
38	Sifnos	Σίφνος	73.9	29	Cyclades
39	Kasos	Κάσος	69.5	27	Dodecanese
40	Alonnisos	Αλόννησος	64.1	25	Sporades
41	Tilos	Τήλος	61.5	24	Dodecanese
42	Symi	Σύμη	57.8	22	Dodecanese
43	Leros	Λέρος	54	21	Dodecanese
44	Hydra	Ύδρα	49.6	19	Argo-Saronic
45	Skiathos	Σκιάθος	47.3	18	Sporades
46	Agios Efstratios	Άγιος Ευστράτιος	43.3	17	North Aegean Islands
47	Sikinos	Σίκινος	41.6	16	Cyclades
48	Nisyros	Νίσυρος	41.2	16	Dodecanese
49	Psara	Ψαρά	40.4	16	North Aegean Islands
50	Anafi	Ανάφη	38.6	15	Cyclades

Island	Population
Crete	636,504
Evia	191,206
Rhodes	125,113
Lesbos	83,755
Corfu	102,071
Chios	50,361
Zakynthos	41,180
Salamis	37,220
Kos	37,089
Kefalonia	36,064
Samos	32,642
Lefkada	21,900
Syros	21,507
Naxos	20,578
Lemnos	16,411
Kalymnos	17,752
Santorini	15,480
Thasos	13,104
Paros	14,520
Aegina	12,911
Mykonos	10,704
Tinos	8,934
Andros	8,826
Icaria	8,843
Leros	7,992
Skiathos	5,802
Aitoliko	4,935
Karpathos	6,567
Milos	5,302
Skopelos	4,518
Kythira	3,644
Ithaca	2,862
Patmos	3,283
Skyros	3,052
Samothrace	2,596
Sifnos	2,777
Alonnisos	3,138
Symi	2,603
Kea	2,335
Paxos	2,466
Poros	3,261
Spetses	3,748

Argo-Saronic Islands

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The port city of Hydra on Hydra Island

This list includes Argo-Saronic islands ^[4] , which are located in the Saronic Gulf. The largest Argo-Saronic island is Salamis. The main islands are in bold. Uninhabited islands are indicated, including those that may have been inhabited in the past: