List of cities and towns in Greece

Two thirds of the Greek people live in urban areas. Greece's largest metropolitan centers and most influential urban areas are those of Athens and Thessaloniki, with metropolitan populations of approximately four million and one million inhabitants respectively. The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece, by population size, using the official census results of 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021.

Census-designated places


The lowest level of census-designated places in Greece are called oikismoi (settlements) and are the smallest continuous built-up areas with a toponym designated for the census. Although some urban CDPs form individual cities and towns (labeled in bold) the majority of them do not. They are either what make up the central districts, or suburbs (italicized), contained within the wider urban and metropolitan areas of Athens-Piraeus and Thessaloniki.

The list below presents every settlement (CDP) that is urban, with a population of more than 10,000 de jure (permanent) residents, using data collected from the 2021 census.

Explanation of the superscript numbers: 2 a suburb of the Thessaloniki urban area, in Thessaloniki's agglomeration/conurbation 3 a suburb that belongs to Piraeus regional unit (Greater Piraeus). 4 a suburb of Athens' metropolitan area 5 a suburb of Thessaloniki's metropolitan area 6 a municipal unit of the Volos urban area, in Volos' agglomeration/conurbation 7 a municipal unit of the Heraklion urban area, in Heraklion's agglomeration/conurbation. 8 the core municipal community of Patras municipality which has a population of 215,922 inhabitants 9 a municipal unit of the Ioannina urban area, in Ioannina's agglomeration/conurbation 10 a municipal unit of the Chalcis urban area, in Chalkis' agglomeration/conurbation * The settlement (CDP) of Athens is the central district of the Athens-Piraeus urban area. * The settlement (CDP) of Thessaloniki is the central district of the Thessaloniki urban area.