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Corfu (/ k ɔːr ˈ f (j) uː / kor-FEW, - FOO, US also / ˈ k ɔːr f (j) uː / KOR-few, -foo) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kérkyra, pronounced ⓘ) [a] is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands; [1] including its small satellite islands, it forms the margin of Greece's northwestern frontier. [2]
Corfu (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Κερκύρας) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of the Ionian Islands. The capital of the regional unit is the town of Corfu. The regional unit consists of the islands of Corfu, Paxoi, Othonoi, Ereikoussa, Mathraki and several smaller islands, all in the ...
Athens Thessaloniki Patras Larissa Heraklion Volos Ioannina Serres Trikala Kavala Chania Mytilene Corfu (city) Rhodes (city) Agrinio Veria. The lowest level of census-designated places in Greece are called oikismoi (settlements) and are the smallest continuous built-up areas with a toponym designated for the census. Although some urban CDPs ...
The Hellenic Cricket Federation is based in Corfu and it is the only Greek sport federation that is based outside Athens. [13] The most Greek cricket clubs are based in Corfu and they star in the Greek Championship. Notable cricket clubs of Corfu are Kerkyraikos G.S. (KGS), founded in 1893, GSK Vyron, founded in 1925 and AO Phaeax founded in 1976.
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 two biggest islands of the Mediterranean: Sicily (right) and Sardinia (top left), which are both part of Italy. The Mediterranean Sea basin is supposed to host more than 10,000 islands, [1] with 2,217 islands larger than 0.01 km 2. [2]
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The most populous of the major islands is Corfu with a population of 104,371, followed by Zakynthos (40,759), Kefalonia (35,801), Lefkada (23,693) and Ithaca (3,231). [6] The foreign-born population was in 2001 19,360 or 9.3%, the majority of which was concentrated in Corfu and Zakynthos. Most of them originate from Albania (13,536). [7]