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 | | The mainland portion of Greece comprises the regions of Thrace and Macedonia in the N; Epirus, Thessaly (Thessalía), and Central Greece in the central section; and, in the S, the Peloponnesus (Pelopónnisos), a peninsula, which is connected to the rest of the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth. |
 | | The 13 regions, with their populations according to the 1991 census, are Northern Aegean (198,241), Southern Aegean (257,522), Attica (3,522,769), Crete (536,980), Epirus (339,210), Central Greece (578,876), Western Greece (702,027), Ionian Islands (191,003), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (570,261), Central Macedonia (1,737,623), Western Macedonia (292,751), Peloponnesus (605,663), and Thessaly (731,230). |
 | | Municipalities, or demes (cities that have more than 100,000 inhabitants), are administered by a mayor and a city council, and communities that have 300 to 10,000 inhabitants by a president and a community council. |
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