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During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures (Greek: νομοί, sing. νομός, romanized: nomoi, sing. nomós) were the country's main administrative unit.
The regions of Greece (Greek: περιφέρειες, romanized: periféreies) are the country's thirteen second-level administrative entities, counting decentralized administrations of Greece as first-level. Regions are divided into regional units, known as prefectures until 2011.
Following the implementation on 1 September 2019 of the Kleisthenis I Programme, the administrative divisions of Greece consist of two main levels: the regions and the municipalities. In addition, a number of decentralized administrations overseeing the regions exist as part of the Ministry of the Interior, but are not part of local government.
World map showing boundaries of many high and low-level administrative divisions. ... Greece: Regional 7 ... 43 prefectures (ken) 792 Cities (shi)
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece , by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [ 1 ] 2001, [ 2 ] 2011 [ 3 ] and 2021.
Greece was the 9th most visited country in the world in 2022, hosting 28 million visitors, [265] an increase from 18 million tourists in 2007. [ 266 ] Most visitors come from the European continent, [ 267 ] while the most from a single nationality are from the United Kingdom, followed by Germany.
The regions consist of 74 regional units, [1] which mostly correspond to the old prefectures. Regional units are then divided into municipalities. Regional units are then divided into municipalities. The new municipalities may be subdivided into municipal units (δημοτικές ενότητες, dimotikés enótites ), consisting of the pre ...
Prefects of Greece (1 C, 4 P) C. Cyclades (22 C, 47 P) D. ... Pages in category "Prefectures of Greece" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.