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PERIPHERIES OF GREECE

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The peripheries (περιφέρειες) are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries (nine on the mainland and four island groups), which are further subdivided into 54 prefectures.

  1. Attica
  2. Central Greece
  3. Central Macedonia
  4. Crete
  5. East Macedonia and Thrace
  6. Epirus
  7. Ionian Islands
  8. North Aegean
  9. Peloponnese
  10. South Aegean
  11. Thessaly
  12. West Greece
  13. West Macedonia

Map showing Peripheries of Greece

In addition to these there is one autonomous region, Mount Athos (Ayion Oros, or "Holy Mountain"), a monastic state under Greek sovereignty. It is located on the easternmost of the three large peninsulas jutting into the Aegean from Central Macedonia periphery.

Contents

Breakdown of prefectures per periphery

List of peripheries by number of prefectures they contain

List of landlocked peripheries

List of peripheries consisting solely of islands

List of primarily mainland peripheries that also include islands

List of exclaves

  • The periphery of West Greece consists of two geographically distinct exclaves, the northern one comprising the prefecture of Aetolia-Akarnania in geographical West Central Greece and the southern one comprising the prefectures of Achaea and Elis in geographical Northwest Peloponnese. They are separated by the Patraic Gulf and, in terms of transportation, adjoined by the Rio-Antirrio bridge.
  • Troizina is an exclave of the periphery of Attica (the prefecture of Piraeus in particular) on the northern coast of geographical Argolis, bordering the periphery of Peloponnese (the prefecture of Argolis in particular) on the south

List of peripheries bordering foreign countries

(traversing the border of Greece in an east-to-west direction)

List of peripheries whose territorial sea abuts that of a foreign country

List of geographically extremal peripheries

List of peripheries that share a component of their name

List of peripheries that have a common noun with a prefecture

List of peripheries that border a single other periphery

List of peripheries that border the most (five, 5) other peripheries

(peripheries bordered ordered in an anti-clockwise manner)

List of peripheries whose territory is part of the Greek state since independence


See also: List of subnational entities