The Peloponnese is a peninsula in southern Greece, forming almost the whole country south of the Gulf of Corinth. It is also a region of Greece, consisting of 5 prefectures. Peloponnese peninsula region only partially covers.
The Peloponnese covers an area of approximately 21,549 km ². It forms the southern part of mainland Greece, although in theory building is an island after Corinth Canal in 1893. It has two land connections with the rest of Greece, a natural form of the Isthmus
of Corinth and an artificial one, represented by the Rio-Antirio Bridge (completed 2004).
