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List of municipalities and communities in Greece (1997–2010) List of municipalities of Greece (2011) Prefectures of Greece (first existed in 1833, last abolished in 2010, by 2010 there were 51) / Greek: νομοί, sing. νομός, called departments in ISO 3166-2:GR; Provinces of Greece 147, last abolished in 2006 / Greek: επαρχία ...
In 1831, the first governor of independent Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias administratively reorganized the Peloponnese into seven departments and the islands into six. These departments were then subdivided into provinces and, in turn, into towns and villages. Opponents of these reforms later assassinated Kapodistrias.
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 .
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. [4]
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.
Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands: Κέρκυρα και Διαπόντιοι Νήσοι (Δήμος Κεντρικής Κέρκυρας και Διαπόντιων Νήσων) 259.5 68,558 264 Corfu (city) Ionian Islands: Achilleio Corfu Ereikoussa Faiakes Mathraki Othonoi Palaiokastritsa Parelioi: North Corfu: Βόρεια Κέρκυρα
For the current list, see List of municipalities of Greece (2011). This is an alphabetical list of municipalities and communities in Greece from 1997 to 2010, under the Kapodistrias Plan. For an ordered list of cities with population over 10,000 see List of cities in Greece.
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.