Tourist information - Chios
Villages built on plains or rocks and others near the coast, full of smells and sounds of the fresh wind and the deep blue sea of the Aegean, hugging around the island. Chios is a hospitable island; and its residents polite and peaceful, ready to welcome with love and kindness the new visitors.
Chios is one of the islands of the north -east Aegean, very close to Asia Minor and opposite the Erithrea peninsula, separated from it by the Chios Canal. The country of Chios extends to 842 square kilometers and has a population of about 54.000 people.
It consists of three islands: Chios, Inousses and Psara.
The town of Chios - Chora, the capital collect about the half of the population. The region consists of 10 Municipalities (Chios, Homeroupolis, Kardamila, Kampochora, Mastichochoria, Amanis, Psara, Inousses, ionia, Agiou Mina) most of which were formed after the joining of small communities.