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Largest Islands of Greece

Can you name the 16 largest islands that are part of Greece?
Quiz by RudiOhrenstein
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Last updated: November 4, 2019
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First submittedOctober 10, 2014
Times taken34,675
Average score43.8%
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km²
Island
8,336
Crete
3,670
Euboea
1,633
Lesbos
1,401
Rhodes
842
Chíos
781
Kefalonia
593
Corfu
478
Lemnos
km²
Island
478
Samos
430
Naxos
406
Zakynthos
380
Andros
380
Thassos
303
Lefkada
300
Karpathos
290
Kos
42 Comments
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Level 94
Dec 16, 2015
Curious as to the cutoff point? Kythira is so close to Kos in size, seems like it would've been included, and then the cutoff could have been 100 sqmi.
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Level 76
Dec 31, 2015
Maybe because Jetpunk's default quiz size is 15 answers?
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Level 70
Apr 14, 2016
Actually when you make a quiz you choose how many questions you want. I suppose 15 is an easy multiple, most quizzes are 10/15/20 etc it makes a good cut off point.
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Level 65
Apr 14, 2016
There are not 15 answers! This quiz has 16.
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Level 59
Feb 27, 2024
Obviously, this had been changed in between the original post and your answer.
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Level 32
Jul 5, 2021
@Malbaby 15 is the default when you make a quiz.
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Level 37
Mar 3, 2016
Love this quiz :P I've been to Lemnos and kos and only missed karpathos
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Level 67
Apr 4, 2016
Please accept evia for euboea (the most counter-intuitive name version for any Greek speaker). The Greek name "εύβοια" is never displayed as euboea in local signs or so.
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Level ∞
Jan 5, 2019
Evia will work now
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Level 35
Apr 14, 2016
13/16
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Level 46
Apr 15, 2016
Made me count
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Level 51
Apr 15, 2016
Could you please accept Limnos? I kept typing it in, and it was not accepted. When I checked it afterwards, my Google map actually spells it that way.
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Level 74
Apr 18, 2016
I had transliteration problems... I know them all, but only the Greek names ("lesvos", "evia", etc.)
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Level 58
Mar 15, 2017
@ct

I agree with ct - could not for the life of me find a way to spell that. Evia is definitely the way it's pronounced and written

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Level 44
Jun 24, 2018
Here, it is spelled "Cephalonia" but here, (https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/biggest-mediterranean-islands-quiz) it is spelled "Kefalonia". Which one is correct?
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Level 75
Jan 11, 2019
Cephalonia is a more "archaic" spelling coming from french where "K" is transliterated as "C" and "Φ" as "ph" whereas Kefalonia is the modern simplified english version.
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Level 21
Sep 15, 2018
More people know about lesbos than rhodes?
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Level 77
Nov 7, 2018
It has been in the news for several years now so, it makes sense that more people today have heard of Lesvos than Rhodes.

Of course I've heard of both.

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Level 75
Jan 11, 2019
Lesbians duh
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Level 19
Jan 7, 2019
I got two, heh... And I only got Rhodes because my state was (maybe) named after it!
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Level 72
Mar 13, 2020
It wasn't it (I actually closed some tabs about that very subject yesterday, with some nice old maps) means red island, from the old dutch roode eylant. (in current dutch rode eiland or (rood eiland)). It was referring just to Aquidneck island, not the mainland.

|Edit: Been diving into the maps again, the oldest one I can find is Novi Belgii.. from 1655.

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Level 81
Jan 7, 2019
My high score is 6. I've only been to one Greek island and it's not on this list.
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Level 73
Jan 7, 2019
Could you please give the areas in square kilometers and not square miles, like it says in the table? That would really help.
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Level 84
Mar 13, 2024
Would it actually help? There are answers you didn't get which you would have if given square kilometers instead?
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Level 74
Jan 7, 2019
You probably should accept Levkas for Lefkada
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Level 75
Jan 11, 2019
Really surprised that enough people took this quiz in order for it to award points. Most people have no knowledge of Greece aside from the Parthenon and the debt crisis. Perhaps they thought it was going to be Crete and a couple others. The percentages suggest I'm probably right.
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Level 20
Jan 24, 2019
Missed euboea
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Level 77
Sep 26, 2019
Actually area is shown in square miles
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Level 77
Nov 4, 2019
Still shown in square miles but header says km
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Level ∞
Nov 4, 2019
Fixed
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Level 72
Mar 13, 2020
weird how the order of known ones hardly has any resamblance to the order of their size. I missed rhodes (always slips my mind) but I know the 5 most guessed, none of the other looked really familiar, lemnos and andros do slightly but could be from something else.

Perhaps lemnos from something with mythology and andros just because it is like an often used suffix. Or maybe for lemnos I am influenced by lemniscate, or maybe the elvenbread I can never remember but feel like it might be similar.

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Level 60
Apr 23, 2020
Only got Crete :(
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Level 59
Oct 5, 2020
I knew most of these from playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Pretty fun quiz
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Level 75
Dec 1, 2020
Why does hardly anyone know Euboea?
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Level 48
Oct 31, 2024
its large but not very popular, everyone knows Crete, Rhodes is highly known for historical relevance and lesbos has been popular in modern day media
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Level 62
May 11, 2021
Pretty fun quiz.
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Level 59
Jul 17, 2021
10/16. Fun quiz!
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Level 68
Mar 2, 2023
Description says 15, but there are 16 islands in the quiz
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Level 48
Oct 30, 2023
Please, accept Euboia as well.
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Level 23
Feb 29, 2024
Great quiz! As a Turkish man 16/16!
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Level 76
Mar 6, 2024
The instructions ask for the 15 largest islands, but the answers are for the 16 largest islands!
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Level 53
Mar 29, 2024
The quizmaker must be greek because luckily, you can spell with a lot of ways all the islands. Μπράβο Rudi Ohrenstein.