Greece Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Islands === {{Main|List of islands of Greece}} [[File:Ionian sea islands, pic6.JPG|thumb|The Greek mainland and several small islands seen from [[Nydri]], [[Lefkada]]]] Greece features a [[List of islands of Greece|vast number of islands]]—between 1,200 and 6,000, depending on the definition,<ref>{{cite book |author1=Marker, Sherry |author2=Bowman, John |author3=Kerasiotis, Peter |author4=Sarna, Heidi |title= Frommer's Greek Islands |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|year=2010 |page=12 |isbn= 978-0-470-52664-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvlP7D9C_7gC&pg=PA12}}</ref> 227 of which are inhabited—and is considered a [[List of transcontinental countries#Non-contiguous|non-contiguous transcontinental country]]. Crete is the largest and most populous island; [[Euboea]], separated from the mainland by the 60 m-wide [[Euripus Strait]], is the second largest, followed by [[Lesbos]] and [[Rhodes]]. The Greek islands are traditionally grouped into the following clusters: the [[Argo-Saronic Islands]] in the Saronic gulf near Athens; the Cyclades, a large but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea; the [[North Aegean islands]], a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey; the Dodecanese, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and Turkey; the [[Sporades]], a small tight group off the coast of northeast Euboea; and the Ionian Islands, located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page