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! === Cities === {{See also|List of cities and towns in Greece}} Almost two-thirds of the Greek people live in urban areas. Greece's largest and most influential metropolitan centres are those of [[Athens]] (population 3,744,059 according to [[Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece|2021 census]]) and [[Thessaloniki]] (population 1,092,919 in [[Thessaloniki metropolitan area|2021]]) that latter commonly referred to as the {{transliteration|el|symprotévousa}} ({{lang|el|συμ[[wikt:πρωτεύουσα|πρωτεύουσα]]}}, {{literally|co-capital}}).<ref name="Greek Experience">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x9TG0Q0xKJYC&q=Thessaloniki%20co-capital&pg=PA19|title=Regional analysis and policy: the Greek experience|author1=Harry Coccossis |author2=Yannis Psycharis |year=2008|publisher=Springer |access-date=19 August 2011|isbn=9783790820867}}</ref> Other prominent cities with urban populations above 100,000 inhabitants include [[Patras]], [[Heraklion]], [[Larissa]], [[Volos]], [[Rhodes (city)|Rhodes]], [[Ioannina]], [[Agrinio]], [[Chania]], and [[Chalcis]].<ref name="cities">{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gr/Athena2001/Athena2001.ASP?wcu=$cmd=0$id=5200712142356520314915 |title=Athena 2001 Census |publisher=[[National Statistical Service of Greece]] |access-date=14 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117231653/http://www.statistics.gr/Athena2001/Athena2001.ASP?wcu=%24cmd%3D0%24id%3D5200712142356520314915 |archive-date=17 January 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The table below lists the largest cities in Greece, by population contained in their respective contiguous built up urban areas, which are either made up of many municipalities, evident in the cases of Athens and Thessaloniki, or are contained within a larger single municipality, case evident in most of the smaller cities of the country. The results come from the preliminary figures of the population census that took place in Greece in May 2011. {{Largest cities of Greece}} 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