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Greece is a mainland, a peninsula and a sea full of islands, and a region is usually a good guess at which of the three a place is on. There are thirteen of them, and they are the tier that a Greek road sign, a licence plate or a weather map starts from.
The thirteen peripheries that the 2011 Kallikratis reform drew, plus Mount Athos, which belongs to none of them. The Holy Mountain is a self-governing monastic state under Greek sovereignty, and it is the small shape on the end of the easternmost prong of Chalkidiki, so it has a tap area wider than its outline.
Three of the regions are mostly islands. The South Aegean is the Cyclades and the Dodecanese, which is why it comes out as dozens of separate pieces across five degrees of longitude; the North Aegean is the big islands along the Turkish coast, from Lesbos to Ikaria; and the Ionian Islands run down the west side, from Corfu to Zakynthos. Crete is the only one that is a single island.
The groups are ours: each is a union of whole decentralised administrations, the seven state bodies that sit above the regions, so none of them parts one. That puts Epirus with Western Macedonia in the north, Thessaly and Attica in the centre, and Crete with the Aegean. The regions are the regional units dissolved, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Mount Athos has been self-governed by its twenty monasteries since the Byzantine era, and the Greek constitution names it an autonomous part of the state. It is a quiz answer because it is a shape on every map of the country, and the one most likely to be missed because it is so small.
The South Aegean is the Cyclades and the Dodecanese under one region. Rhodes is the biggest island in it, and the whole region has less land than Epirus.
Western Greece takes in the north west of the Peloponnese as well as the mainland across the Gulf of Patras, so the biggest city in it, Patras, sits on the peninsula.
Thirteen, 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 fourteenth answer.
No. The 54 prefectures were replaced in 2011 by 74 regional units, and the regions are the tier above those. Most of the regional units have the name of a prefecture they replaced.
Because it is a decentralised administration of its own, and the groups are made of whole ones. Attica and Thessaly with Central Greece are the two that make up the centre.
The tier below this one is Greece Regional Units. For another country at this level, see Italy Regions.
