The Dodecanese are a group of islands in the south east Aegean. The name Dodecanese means 12 islands but in fact there are more of 163 islands, most of them really tiny. The total population of the prefecture of Dodecanese reaches 190,071 inhabitants and has an area of 2579.275 square kilometres. There are airports in many of the Dodecanese islands like in Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Leros, Karpathos and Kasos.