| Regional units of Greece Περιφερειακές ενότητες της Ελλάδας (Greek) | |
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| Category | Unitary state |
| Location | Hellenic Republic |
| Number | 74 regional units |
| Areas | 2,307 km2 (891 sq mi) (Ionian Islands) – 18,810 km2 (7,260 sq mi) (Central Macedonia) |
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| Subdivisions of Greece |
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| Autonomous region |
| Obsolete terms |
| 51 prefectural administrations Prefectural department, 2 hyper-prefectures 148 provinces Municipal/Communal/Local department |
The 74regional units of Greece[a] are the country's third-leveladministrative units (countingdecentralized administrations as first-level). They are subdivisions of the country's 13regions, and are further divided intomunicipalities.
They were introduced as part of theKallikratis administrative reform on 1 January 2011 and are comparable in area and, on themainland, coterminous with the "pre-Kallikratis"prefectures of Greece.[1]