Greece: Travel Guide: Thrace: Evros

The Evros Prefecture (Greek: Νομός Έβρου Nomos Evrou) is the northernmost of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern and northeastern part of the region of Thrace, and borders Turkey at the Evros river. Evros borders Bulgaria to the north and the northwest. The Rhodope prefecture borders it to the west. Evros is the northernmost prefecture in Greece. Its capital town is Alexandroupoli.

Evros is one of the largest prefectures of Greece and is the largest in Thrace, covering over 45%, of Western Thrace, one of the three regions of Northern Greece (the other two are Macedonia and Thessaly) covering over half of the entire region in Greece. Its length is about 150 km from north to south (with Samothrace and water 200 km, the length from the Gulf of Corinth to Larissa); almost as long as the Larissa and the Aetolia-Acarnania prefectures, up making up one of the longest such lengths in Greece. Its width ranges from 70 to 100 km from east to west and is almost the same as the Larissa prefecture, while the prefecture includes the small island of Samothrace. Its second river is the Arda.

The Rhodope mountains lie to the west and to the southwest, the foothills and the hills to the centre and northern parts, and a plain and farmland taking in the Evros valley to the east, with the Aegean to the south. Samothrace is mountainous.