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Regions of Greece

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.

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Regions of Greece
Περιφέρειες της Ελλάδας (Greek)
CategoryUnitary state
LocationHellenic Republic
Number13 Regions
1 Autonomous Region
Populations200,642 (Ionian Islands) – 3,784,565 (Attica)
Areas2,307 km2 (891 sq mi) (Ionian Islands) – 18,810 km2 (7,260 sq mi) (Central Macedonia)
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The current regions were established in July 1986 (the presidential decree officially establishing them was signed in 1987), by decision of the interior minister, Menios Koutsogiorgas, as second-level administrative entities, complementing the prefectures (Law 1622/1986).[1] Before 1986, there was a traditional division into broad historical–geographical regions (γεωγραφικά διαμερίσματα), which, however, was often arbitrary; not all of the pre-1986 traditional historical-geographic regions had official administrative bodies. Although the post-1986 regions were mostly based on the earlier divisions, they are usually smaller and, in a few cases, do not overlap with the traditional definitions: for instance, the region of Western Greece, which had no previous analogue, comprises territory belonging to the Peloponnese peninsula and the traditional region of Central Greece.

As part of a decentralization process inspired by Interior Minister Alekos Papadopoulos, they were accorded more powers in the 1997 Kapodistrias reform of local and regional government. They were transformed into fully separate entities by the 2010 Kallikratis Plan (Law 3852/2010), which entered into effect on 1 January 2011. In the 2011 changes, the government-appointed general secretary (γενικός γραμματέας) was replaced with a popularly elected regional governor (περιφερειάρχης) and a regional council (περιφερειακό συμβούλιο) with five-year terms. Many powers of the prefectures, which were also abolished or reformed into regional units, were transferred to the region level. The regional organs of the central government were in turn replaced by seven decentralized administrations, which group from one to three regions under a government-appointed general secretary.

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  1. Attica / Αττική
  2. Central Greece / Στερεά Ελλάδα
  3. Central Macedonia / Κεντρική Μακεδονία
  4. Crete / Κρήτη
  5. Eastern Macedonia and Thrace / Ανατολική Μακεδονία και Θράκη
  6. Epirus / Ήπειρος
  7. Ionian Islands / Ιόνια νησιά
  8. North Aegean / Βόρειο Αιγαίο
  9. Peloponnese / Πελοπόννησος
  10. South Aegean / Νότιο Αιγαίο
  11. Thessaly / Θεσσαλία
  12. Western Greece / Δυτική Ελλάδα
  13. Western Macedonia / Δυτική Μακεδονία
  14. Mount Athos / Άγιον Όρος
Map showing modern regions of Greece

Bordering the region of Central Macedonia there is one autonomous region, Mount Athos (Agion Oros, or "Holy Mountain"), an autonomous monastic community under Greek sovereignty. It is located on the easternmost of the three large peninsulas jutting into the Aegean from the Chalkidiki peninsula.

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RegionSeatArea
(km2)
Governor (1 January 202431 December 2028)Population
(2024)[2]
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(residents/km2)
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(million €)[3]
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()
1AtticaAthens 3,808 Nikos Hardalias [el]
(ND)
3,784,565 993.85 97,030 25,638
2Central GreeceLamia 15,549 Fanis Spanos
(ND)
505,073 32.48 11,475 22,719
3Central MacedoniaThessaloniki 18,811 Apostolos Tzitzikostas
(ND)
1,778,896 94.57 28,418 15,975
4CreteHeraklion 8,336 Stavros Arnaoutakis
(PASOK–KINAL)
622,491 74.68 10,331 16,596
5Eastern Macedonia and ThraceKomotini 14,157 Christodoulos Topsidis [el]
(Independent)
561,834 39.69 8,117 14,447
6EpirusIoannina 9,203 Alexandros Kahrimanis [el]
(ND)
321,108 34.89 4,432 13,802
7Ionian IslandsCorfu 2,307 Giannis Trepeklis [el]
(Independent)
200,642 86.97 3,343 16,662
8North AegeanMytilene 3,836 Kostas Moutzouris [el]
(Independent)
201,007 52.40 2,704 13,452
9PeloponneseTripoli 15,490 Dimitris Ptochos [el]
(ND)
531,598 34.32 9,729 18,301
10South AegeanErmoupoli 5,286 George Hatzimarkos [el]
(ND)
327,246 61.91 6,737 20,587
11ThessalyLarissa 14,037 Dimitris Kouretas [el]
(PASOK–KINAL)
678,747 48.35 10,661 15,707
12Western GreecePatras 11,350 Nektarios Farmakis [el]
(ND)
640,243 56.41 9,093 14,202
13Western MacedoniaKozani 9,451 Giorgos Amanatidis [el]
(ND)
247,270 26.16 4,552 18,409
(14)Mount AthosKaryes 336 Alkiviadis Stefanis 1,746 5.20
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