List of islands of Greece
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 following are the 50 largest Greek islands listed by surface area.
The 30 islands in the Sporades are listed below, with the four major islands in bold. The largest Sporades island is Skyros.
Argo-Saronic Islands
This list includes Argo-Saronic islands, which are located in the Saronic Gulf. The largest Argo-Saronic island is Salamis. The names of the main islands are in bold. Uninhabited islands are indicated, including those that may have been inhabited in the past:
Cretan islands
The two lists below show the islands, islets, and rocks that surround the island of Crete that are in the Aegean Sea or Libyan Sea. Islands on the south coast of Crete are considered in the Libyan Sea.
Cyclades islands
The Cyclades islands comprise around 220 islands and islets. The main islands are indicated in bold below.
Dodecanese islands
There are 164 total Dodecanese Islands of which 26 are inhabited. There are 12 main islands, listed in bold below:
North Aegean islands
There are also two North Aegean islands in the Thracian Sea:
Islands in the Ionian Sea are listed below. The seven largest and most popular islands are listed in bold.
The following islands are close to the mainland and not part of a sea:
