Crete, With an area of 8,331 square kilometres, Crete is the biggest island in Greece and the fifth biggest in the Mediterranean (after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus and Corsica). Administratively it is divided into four countries and, according to the latest population census (1991), it has 540,000 inhabitants (see the table below). Of these, 200,000 live in the island’s five biggest urban centres (Chania, Rethimno, Iraklio, Aghios Nikolaos and Ierapetra) and the remainder live in the 2,090 boroughs, communities and settlements which are scattered over every corner of the island. Every summer, however, another 2,500,000 visitors from all over the world are added to the island’s permanent inhabitants, i.e. five times more than the permanent inhabitants! As you can see, this is the main factor affecting Crete’s social geography. The locals say characteristically that every summer, the island “sinks” under its many visitors! Because of the need to service all these tourists, 40% of the working population of Crete works directly or indirectly in the tourist sector, a sector which has an annual turnover of 1.5 billion dollars!

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