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Regions of the Greek islands. 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 ...
The island's official name, Megisti (Μεγίστη) means "biggest" or "greatest", but at only 11.98 km 2 (4.626 sq mi) in area, it is the smallest of the Dodecanese.The name refers to the fact that it is the largest of the small archipelago. [4]
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.
Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.
"coastline lengths and areas of islands in the croatian part of the adriatic sea determined from the topographic maps at the scale of 1:25.000". geoadria. 9 (1): 5– 32 "population & housing census, 15th march 2001" (pdf) (in greek). national statistical service of greece. 2001. issn 1106-5761.
This is a list of Aegean Islands, which includes the English, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, and Italian names for these islands in the Aegean Sea arranged by island group.
The Dodecanese (UK: / ˌ d oʊ d ɪ k ə ˈ n iː z /, US: / d oʊ ˌ d ɛ k ə ˈ n iː z /; Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa [ðoðeˈkanisa], lit. ' twelve islands '; Turkish: On İki Ada) are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited.
It is the largest island of a small, circular archipelago formed by the Santorini caldera. It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km 2 (28 sq mi) and a 2021 census population of 15,480.