{"id":814,"date":"2025-12-19T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/?page_id=814"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:04:45","slug":"regional-administration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/about-greece\/government-and-politics\/regional-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Constitution stipulates that the administration of the State is organized according with the principle of the decentralization. Since 1986, the country has been divided into Regions which constitute the decentralized administrative units of the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presently, there are thirteen regions throughout the country:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Eastern Macedonia and Thrace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Central Macedonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) Western Macedonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) Epirus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5) Thessaly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6) Ionian Islands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7) Western Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8) Central Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9) Attica<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10) Peloponnese <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11) Northern Aegean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12) Southern Aegean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13) Crete<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Services provided by regional authorities throughout the 13 regions are listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.gr\/en\/regions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gov.gr online portal <\/a><span class=\"wp-rich-text-font-awesome-icon wp-font-awesome-icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"fas\" data-icon=\"arrow-up-right-from-square\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-arrow-up-right-from-square \" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M320 0c-17.7 0-32 14.3-32 32s14.3 32 32 32h82.7L201.4 265.4c-12.5 12.5-12.5 32.8 0 45.3s32.8 12.5 45.3 0L448 109.3V192c0 17.7 14.3 32 32 32s32-14.3 32-32V32c0-17.7-14.3-32-32-32H320zM80 32C35.8 32 0 67.8 0 112V432c0 44.2 35.8 80 80 80H400c44.2 0 80-35.8 80-80V320c0-17.7-14.3-32-32-32s-32 14.3-32 32V432c0 8.8-7.2 16-16 16H80c-8.8 0-16-7.2-16-16V112c0-8.8 7.2-16 16-16H192c17.7 0 32-14.3 32-32s-14.3-32-32-32H80z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span> <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":800,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-related-children-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-814","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}