Editing Greece (section)

=== 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 |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=10 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610022305/https://books.google.com/books?id=wvlP7D9C_7gC&pg=PA12 |url-status=live }}</ref> 227 of which are inhabited. Crete is the largest and most populous island; [[Euboea]], separated from the mainland by the 60&nbsp;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.