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| | infoXenios: G.N.T.O. - Greece - Tourism - Travel - Vacation |
 | | The Greek peninsula, Europe's southeastern tip, occupies an area of 131,944 square kilometres, and consists of mainland Greece (Attica, Peloponnese, Sterea Ellada, Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia [Central, Western, and Eastern], Thrace) and the islands of the Aegean and Ionian seas. |
 | | In contrast there are numerous islands in the Aegean sea, some isolated like Crete in the South, and some in groups like the islands of the Northeast Aegean, the Sporades, the Cyclades, and the Dodecanese. |
 | | The Sporades lie off the eastern shores of mainland Greece and Euboea (Evia) and retain their genuine island characteristics and unchanged local traditions. |
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