Cyclades
The Cyclades are a group of Greek Islands, located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. The archipelago contains some 2,200 islands, islets and rocks; but only 33 islands are inhabited.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Mykonos and Naxos.
Mykonos
Mykonos is a popular tourist destination in the Greek islands of the Cyclades group, situated in the middle of the Aegean Sea. Mykonos is located south of Tinos, east of Syros and north of Paros and Naxos.
Naxos
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Naxos is the largest in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea and was the centre of ancient Cycladic culture. The most fertile of the Cyclades islands, Naxos earns much of its income from agriculture.
Delos
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Delos, is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago. Though only 3.43 km2 in area, it is one of the most important mythological, historical, and archaeological sites in Greece.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Santorini and Paros.
Santorini
Santorini is an archipelago of 5 volcanic islands in the Cyclades group of the Greek islands in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast of mainland Greece.
Paros
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Paros is a major island of the Cyclades group. It is one of the most popular holiday destinations for visitors to the Greek islands. Paros is considered as one of the most beautiful islands of the Cyclades.
Milos
Milos is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the Cyclades group. The island is famous for the Venus de Milo, a statue of Aphrodite, now in the Louvre.
Andros
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Andros is a large, mountainous island in the Cyclades, with beautiful beaches, monasteries and abundant water sources. It has active farming communities and villages, and three main towns/resorts: Gavrio, Chora Andros, and Batsi.
Tinos
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Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It forms part of the Cyclades archipelago. The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos. It has a land area of 194.464 square kilometres and a 2021 census population of 8,934 inhabitants.
Syros
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Syros is in the Cyclades group of the Greek Islands, off the normal tourist track. Known as "the grand dame of the Cyclades", Syros provides an authentic Greek island culture experience.
Ios
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Ios is a small island of the Cyclades group. It is a part of the Cyclades Islands in the south of Greece. Ios is a short ferry ride from Santorini, making an extended holiday or even a day trip a viable option.
Kea
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Kea is an island in Greece. Generally quiet and rustic, its proximity to Athens makes it a popular destination for holidaying Greeks.
Amorgos
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Amorgos is the easternmost island of the Cyclades island group and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group in Greece. Along with 16 neighbouring islets, the largest of which is Nikouria Island, it comprises the municipality of Amorgos, which has a land area of 126.346 square kilometres and at the 2021 census had a population of 1,961.
Serifos
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Serifos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, located in the western Cyclades, south of Kythnos and northwest of Sifnos. It is part of the Milos regional unit.
Sifnos
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Sifnos is a small island within the Western Cyclades, of about 35 sq mi with a permanent population of about 2,200, but which increases greatly during summer.
Folegandros
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Folegandros, or Pholegandros, is a small island in the Cyclades. Folegandros is a barren island with a rocky coastline and almost sheer cliffs. Main settlements are the port of Karavostasi, the capital of the island, the "Chora", built on the edge of a cliff overlooking the northern coast and the windswept village of “Ano Meria”.
Anafi
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Anafi is a quiet, unspoiled island of the Cyclades group east of Santorini. It had 271 residents in 2011. Mass tourism hasn't hit Anafi yet unlike its volcanic sister Santorini so don't expect vibrant nightlife if you go there.
Kythnos
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Kythnos is one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. The island is of volcanic origin, very dry, and thinly populated.
Sikinos
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Sikinos is a Greek island and municipality in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios and Folegandros. Sikinos is part of the Thira regional unit.
Antiparos
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Antiparos (Greek: Αντίπαρος; Ancient Greek: Ὠλίαρος, romanized: Oliaros; Latin: Oliarus; is a small island in the southern Aegean, at the heart of the Cyclades, which is less than one nautical mile from Paros, the port to which it is connected with a local…
Kimolos
Kimolos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It lies on the southwest of the island group of Cyclades, near the bigger island of Milos. Kimolos is the administrative center of the municipality of Kimolos, which also includes the uninhabited islands of Polyaigos, Agios Efstathios and Agios Georgios.
Thirassia
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Therasia, also known as Thirasía, is an island in the volcanic island group of Santorini in the Greek Cyclades. It lies north-west of Nea Kameni, a small island formed in recent centuries by volcanic activity and thus marking the centre of the island group.
Koufonisi
Ano Koufonisi, usually referred just as Koufonisi, is a major attraction in the small Cyclades known for its beautiful beaches and cliffs. There is also another Koufonisi, Kato Koufonisi nearby.
Cyclades
- Type: archipelago with 120,000 residents
- Description: Greek island group in the Aegean Sea
- Also known as: “Kykládes”, “Kykládhes”, “Nomós Kikládhon”, and “Nomos Kykladon”
- Neighbors: Aegean Sea
- Location: South Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cyclades” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kuklade”
- Afrikaans: “Kuklades”
- Afrikaans: “Siklade”
- Arabic: “سيكلادس”
- Arabic: “كيكلاديس”
- Armenian: “Կիկլադներ”
- Asturian: “Cíclades”
- Azerbaijani: “Kiklad adaları”
- Basque: “Ziklada uharteak”
- Basque: “Zikladeak”
- Belarusian: “Кіклады”
- Belarusian: “Кікляды”
- Bosnian: “Kikladi”
- Breton: “Kikladez”
- Bulgarian: “Циклади”
- Bulgarian: “Цикладите”
- Bulgarian: “Цикладски острови”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de les Cíclades”
- Catalan: “Cíclades”
- Catalan: “Illes Cíclades”
- Catalan: “Kiklades”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de les Cíclades”
- Cebuano: “Cyclades”
- Cebuano: “Nomós Kykládon”
- Chinese: “基克拉泽斯”
- Chinese: “基克拉泽斯群岛”
- Chinese: “基克拉澤斯”
- Chinese: “基克拉澤斯群島”
- Chinese: “昔加拉第群岛”
- Chinese: “锡克拉底斯群岛”
- Corsican: “Cicladi”
- Croatian: “Cikladi”
- Croatian: “Kikladski otoci”
- Czech: “Kykladské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Kyklady”
- Czech: “Kyklády”
- Danish: “Kykladerne”
- Dutch: “Cycladen”
- Dutch: “Kykladen”
- Esperanto: “Ciklades”
- Esperanto: “Ciklado”
- Esperanto: “Cikladoj”
- Esperanto: “Kiklades”
- Esperanto: “Kikladoj”
- Estonian: “Küklaadid”
- Faroese: “Cyclades”
- Faroese: “Kyklades”
- Faroese: “Kykladuoyggjar”
- Faroese: “Kykladurnar”
- Faroese: “Κυκλάδες”
- Finnish: “Kykladit”
- French: “Cyclades”
- Galician: “Cícladas - Κυκλάδες”
- Galician: “Cícladas”
- Galician: “Cíclades”
- Georgian: “კიკლადები”
- German: “Cykladen”
- German: “GR-82”
- German: “Kiklades”
- German: “Kykladen”
- German: “Kyklades”
- German: “Zykladen”
- Greek: “Κυκλάδες”
- Greek: “Νομός Κυκλάδων”
- Hebrew: “האיים הקיקלאדיים”
- Hebrew: “האיים הקיקלדיים”
- Hebrew: “האיים הקיקלדים”
- Hebrew: “הקיקלאדיים”
- Hindi: “सिक्लेडिस”
- Hungarian: “Kükládok”
- Ido: “Arkipelago Kikladi”
- Indonesian: “Kyklades”
- Irish: “Ciocláidéis”
- Italian: “Cicladi”
- Italian: “Cyclades”
- Italian: “Isole Cicladi”
- Japanese: “キクラデス”
- Japanese: “キクラデス県”
- Japanese: “キクラデス諸島”
- Japanese: “キュクラデス諸島”
- Kazakh: “Киклад аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Кикладдар”
- Korean: “퀴클라데스 제도”
- Korean: “키클라데스 제도”
- Korean: “키클라데스 현”
- Korean: “키클라데스”
- Kurdish: “Giravên Kîklad”
- Kurdish: “Giravên Kîkladê”
- Latin: “Cycladae”
- Latin: “Cyclades”
- Latvian: “Kiklādu salas”
- Lithuanian: “Kikladai”
- Lithuanian: “Kiklados”
- Lithuanian: “Kikladų salos”
- Macedonian: “Киклади”
- Malay: “Kyklades”
- Northern Frisian: “Kyklaaden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kykladene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kykladane”
- Norwegian: “Kykladene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ciclades”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cyclades”
- Persian: “سیکلدیز”
- Persian: “کیکلادها”
- Polish: “Cyklady”
- Portuguese: “Cícladas”
- Portuguese: “Ciclades”
- Portuguese: “Cíclades”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Cíclades”
- Romanian: “Ciclade”
- Romanian: “Cicladele”
- Romanian: “Cyclades”
- Romanian: “Insulele Ciclade”
- Russian: “Кикладские острова”
- Russian: “Киклады”
- Russian: “Цикладские острова”
- Serbian: “Kikladi”
- Serbian: “Κυκλάδες”
- Serbian: “Киклади”
- Serbian: “Кикладска острва”
- Serbian: “Кикладски архипелаг”
- Serbian: “Префектура Киклади”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cikladi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kikladi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kikladi”
- Sicilian: “Cicladi”
- Slovak: “Kyklady”
- Slovenian: “GR-82”
- Slovenian: “Kikladi”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de las Cicladas”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de las Cícladas”
- Spanish: “Cicladas”
- Spanish: “Cícladas”
- Spanish: “Islas Cicladas”
- Spanish: “Islas Cícladas”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de las Cicladas”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de las Cícladas”
- Swedish: “Cykladerna”
- Swedish: “Kikladhes”
- Swedish: “Kikládhes”
- Swedish: “Kykladerna”
- Swedish: “Kykladiska öarna”
- Tagalog: “Cyclades”
- Tamil: “சைக்கிளடெசு”
- Tamil: “சைக்லேட்ஸ்”
- Thai: “Cyclades”
- Thai: “คีคลาเดส”
- Thai: “ซิคละดีส”
- Thai: “ไซคลาดีส”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะซิคละดีส”
- Turkish: “Cyclades”
- Turkish: “Kiklad Adaları”
- Turkish: “Kyklad Adaları”
- Turkish: “Kyklad”
- Ukrainian: “Кіклади”
- Ukrainian: “Кікладський архіпелаг”
- Ukrainian: “Кікладські острови”
- Urdu: “سیکلادیز”
- Uzbek: “Kiklad orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Cyclades”
- Vietnamese: “Kyklades”
- Vietnamese: “Kykládes”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Cyclades”
- Vlaams: “Cycloadn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kyklades”
- Welsh: “Cyclades”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Cyclades”
- Western Armenian: “Քիքլատես”
- Western Frisian: “Sykladen”
- Wu Chinese: “基克拉泽斯”
- Yue Chinese: “基克拉澤斯”
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