Full of memories and promises. Thassos is an island of Macedonia , located in the northern Aegean Sea and a few kilometers from Kavala , being the northernmost Greek island. It is also known as the emerald of the Aegean . The length of its coasts reaches 115 km and its land surface extends to 378.84 square meters. km. A distance of 12 nautical miles separates it from Kavala and only 6 miles from Keramoti and Kavala Airport . Administratively, Thassos belongs to the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace , and, together with the islets that surround it, constitutes the municipality of the same name and the regional unit of the same name . The seat of the island is Limenas, which is often confused with Limenaria, the island’s second town. The island is verdant and timber is one of the main incomes of the Thasians, as well as marble mining , tourism , oil , olives , honey , etc. Olives, pines, plane trees, firs, lindens, cedars, cranberries and other tame and wild trees cover the small plains up to the mountain tops. It has a population of 13,104, according to the 2021 census.