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 305,000 inhabitants, then comes Heraklion with a metropolitan population of 211,370 that's almost the same as the municipal population of Patras.
The table below lists the largest cities in Greece, by population size, using the official census results of 1991,[1] 2001,[2] 2011[3] and 2021.[4]
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