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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.

In Greek region of Macedonia 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.

Breakdown of prefectures per periphery

List of peripheries by number of prefectures they contain

• 7: Central Macedonia
• 5: Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Central Greece, Peloponnese
• 4: West Macedonia, Ionian Islands, Epirus, Thessaly, Attica, Crete
• 3: West Greece, North Aegean
• 2: South Aegean

List of landlocked peripheries

• West Macedonia

List of peripheries consisting solely of islands

• Ionian Islands
• North Aegean
• South Aegean
• Crete

List of primarily mainland peripheries that also include islands

• Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (Samothrace, Thasos)
• Thessaly (Skopelos, Skiathos, Alonnisos)
• Central Greece (Euboea, Skyros)
• Attica (Salamis, Aegina, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, Kythera)

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)

• Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (Turkey, Bulgaria)
• Central Macedonia (Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia)
• West Macedonia (Republic of Macedonia, Albania)
• Epirus (Albania)

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

• Ionian Islands (Albania)
• Epirus (Albania)
• Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (Turkey)
• North Aegean (Turkey)
• South Aegean (Turkey)

List of geographically extremal peripheries

• Easternmost periphery: South Aegean (prefecture of Dodecanese, island of Kastellorizo)
• Northernmost periphery: Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (prefecture of Evros)
• Westernmost periphery: Ionian Islands (prefecture of Corfu, island of Othonoi)
• Southernmost periphery: Crete (prefecture of Chania, island of Gavdos)

List of peripheries that share a component of their name

• Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Central Macedonia, and West Macedonia share the name of Macedonia
• West Greece and Central Greece share the name of Greece
• North Aegean and South Aegean share the name of Aegean
• West Greece and West Macedonia share the name of West
• Central Greece and Central Macedonia share the name of Central

List of peripheries that have a common noun with a prefecture

• Attica shares its names with the prefectures of West Attica and East Attica

List of peripheries that border a single other periphery

• Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (borders Central Macedonia)

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

(peripheries bordered ordered in an anti-clockwise manner)

• Thessaly (borders Central Macedonia, West Macedonia, Epirus, West Greece, and Central Greece)

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

• Attica
• Central Greece (with the exception of the province of Domokos of the prefecture of Phthiotis; contrariwise, the prefecture of Phthiotis also originally included within its limits, at its very northeast, a small area containing the town of Amaliapolis, that after the annexation of Thessaly in 1881 became part of the prefecture of Magnesia of the current periphery of Thessaly)
• Peloponnese
• West Greece
• South Aegean (the prefecture of Kyklades only)

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See also: List of subnational entities

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