page_title: List of islands of Greece
section_title: Of the Aegean Sea
hierarchical_section_title: List of islands of Greece / Cretan islands / Of the Aegean Sea
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Pondikonisi, Felsinsel in der Gemeinde Kissamos, Präfektur Chania, Kreta, Griechenland
context_page_description: Greece has many islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227.
  The largest Greek island by area is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea. The second largest island is Euboea, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek Islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.
  The Greek islands are traditionally grouped into the following clusters: the Argo-Saronic Islands in the Saronic gulf near Athens; the Cyclades, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea; the North Aegean islands, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey; the Dodecanese, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey; the Sporades, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea; and the Ionian Islands, chiefly located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea.
context_section_description: Afendis Christos
  Agia Varvara (island)
  Agioi Apostoloi
  Agioi Pandes
  Agioi Theodoroi
  Agios Nikolaos
  Anavatis
  Antimilos
  Arnaouti
  Aspros Volakas
  Avgo
  Crete
  Daskaleia
  Dia
  Diapori
  Dionysades
  Dragonada
  Elasa
  Ftena Trachylia
  Gianysada
  Glaronisi
  Gramvousa, Agria
  Gramvousa, Imeri
  Grandes
  Kalydon (Spinalonga)
  Karavi
  Karga
  Katergo
  Kavallos
  Kefali
  Kolokythas
  Koursaroi
  Kyriamadi
  Lazaretta
  Leon
  Mavros
  Mavros Volakas
  Megatzedes
  Mochlos
  Nikolos
  Palaiosouda
  Paximada
  Paximadaki
  Peristeri
  Peristerovrachoi
  Petalida
  Petalouda
  Pontikaki
  Pontikonisi
  Praso Kissamou
  Prosfora
  Pseira
  Sideros
  Souda
  Valenti
  Vryonisi
caption: The islet of Pontikonisi (mouse island) which has the shape of a mouse.
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