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A Greek region narrows a round down to a corner of the country, and the regional unit is the tier that names a place. There are 74 of them, plus Mount Athos, from the four that make up Crete to the thirteen that scatter across the Cyclades and the Dodecanese. Most of them are named after the prefecture they replaced, and the prefecture's name is what a road sign still says.
The Perifereiakés Enótites that the 2011 Kallikratis reform drew, which replaced the 54 prefectures: 74 regional units and Mount Athos, which belongs to none of them. The reform cut the old prefecture of Athens and Piraeus into eight units, so the capital is five small shapes (the north, west, central and south sectors of Athens, and Piraeus) with the Islands, East Attica and West Attica around them. The Athenian ones are too small to tap at the scale of the country; the smallest of each cluster has its tap area widened beyond its shape, and the rest are there when you zoom in.
On the islands the units follow the archipelagos. Some are a single island, such as Corfu, Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Naxos, and some are several: Kea-Kythnos, Karpathos-Kasos and the Sporades are each a unit made of islands that share a name. The Islands unit in Attica is the odd one, because it is Aegina, Hydra, Kythira and the rest, which are not next to each other at all.
The groups are the regions, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. The South Aegean has the most units, 13, and Western Greece the fewest, three. Mount Athos goes with Central Macedonia, where Eurostat files it. Each region answers under the same name in Greece Regions.
Piraeus is the port of Athens, and the smallest regional unit on the map by a wide margin. It is the one that most needs a tap area.
Larisa is the largest regional unit by land, a plain in the middle of Thessaly that runs from the Vale of Tempe to the foothills of the Pindus.
The Islands unit of Attica is Aegina, Hydra, Poros, Spetses, Kythira and Antikythera. Kythira is far to the south of the others, so this is the answer that has to be learned as a list of dots rather than as a shape.
74, since the Kallikratis reform of 2011. Mount Athos is a self-governing monastic state and is not part of any of them, but it is on the map as a 75th answer.
The 54 prefectures were abolished in 2011. Most regional units kept the prefecture's name and the same land, and the biggest change is Attica, which was one prefecture and is now eight units.
Kea-Kythnos and Karpathos-Kasos each combine two island groups that were separate municipalities, and the unit takes both names.
The tier above this one is Greece Regions. For another country at this level, see Austria Districts.
