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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.
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.
In 1998 Mitsotaki created Greece's first international development NGO, ActionAid Hellas (AAH). She has chaired AAH from 2007 to 2017. Mitsotaki was a member of the board of ActionAid International (AAI) from 2003 to 2015. [6] She served on AAI board committees Governance and Board Development Committee, and the Finance and Funding Committee.
They are subdivisions of the country's 13 regions, and are further divided into municipalities. They were introduced as part of the Kallikratis administrative reform on 1 January 2011 and are comparable in area and, on the mainland , coterminous with the "pre-Kallikratis" prefectures of Greece .
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 most visited region of Greece is Central ...
ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose stated primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide. [ 1 ] ActionAid is a federation of 45 country offices that works with communities, often via local partner organisations, on a range of development issues.
Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish language, was traditionally spoken by the Sephardic community in Greece, particularly in the city of Thessaloniki, where, at their peak percentage, they made up 56% of the population. [8] However, many of Greece's Jews were murdered in World War II, and a large number emigrated to Israel after 1948.
The traditional geographic regions of Greece (Greek: γεωγραφικά διαμερίσματα, lit. 'geographic departments') are the country's main historical-geographic regions, and were also official administrative regional subdivisions of Greece until the 1987 administrative reform. [ 1 ]