LUXURY HOLIDAYS IN Greece

Greece consists of a mountainous, peninsular mainland jutting out into the sea at the southern end of the Balkans, ending at the Peloponnese peninsula.  Due to its highly indented coastline and numerous islands, Greece has the twelfth longest coastline in the world with 13,676 km (8,498 mi); its land boundary is 1,160 km (721 mi). Greece features a vast number of islands, between 1200 and 6000, depending on the definition, 227 of which are inhabited. Crete is the largest and most populous island; Euboea, separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, is the second largest, followed by Rhodes and Lesbos.