Editing Euboea (section)

==Geography and climate==
[[File:Euboea topo.png|thumb|left|upright=1.25|Topography of Euboea and parts of the Greek mainland.]]
[[File:Landscape Eretria Euboea Greece.jpg|thumb|Landscape near Eretria]]
[[File:20090510 Kanthli mountain Evia Greece 1.jpg|thumb|View of [[Kantili|Kantili mountain]].]]

Euboea was believed to have originally formed part of the mainland, and to have been separated from it by an [[earthquake]]. This is fairly probable, because it lies in the neighbourhood of a [[plate tectonics|fault line]], and both [[Thucydides]] and [[Strabo]] write that the northern part of the island had been shaken at different periods.{{sfn|Tozer|1911|p=866}} In the neighbourhood of [[Chalcis]], both to the north and the south, the bays are so confined as to make plausible the story of [[Agamemnon]]'s fleet having been detained there by contrary winds. At Chalcis itself, where the strait is narrowest at only 40&nbsp;m, it is called the [[Euripus Strait]]. The extraordinary changes of tide that take place in this passage have been a subject of note since classical times, and it was so feared by sailors that the principal line of traffic from the north of the Aegean to Athens used to bypass Chalcis and the Euboic Sea.{{sfn|Tozer|1911|p=866}} At one moment the current runs like a river in one direction, and shortly afterwards with equal velocity in the other. A bridge was first constructed here in the twenty-first year of the [[Peloponnesian War]] (410 BC).{{sfn|Tozer|1911|p=866}}

Geography and nature divide the island itself into three distinct parts: the fertile and forested north (which suffered major damage in the August 2021 forest fires); the forested mountainous centre, with agriculture limited to the coastal valleys; and the barren south.<ref name="ODB">{{cite encyclopedia | last1 = Gregory | first1 = Timothy E. | last2 = Ševčenko | first2 = Nancy Patterson | title = Euboea | pages = 736–737 | editor-last=Kazhdan | editor-first=Alexander | editor-link=Alexander Kazhdan | year=1991 | encyclopedia = [[The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]] | location = Oxford and New York | publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504652-6 }}</ref>

The main mountains include [[Dirfi]] ({{convert|1743|m||abbr=on|disp=}}), [[Kantili]] ({{convert|1246|m||abbr=on|disp=}}), Pyxaria ({{convert|1341|m||abbr=on|disp=}}) in the northeast and [[Ochi Mountains|Ochi]] ({{convert|1394|m||abbr=on|disp=}}) in the south. The neighboring gulfs are the [[Pagasetic Gulf]] in the north, [[Malian Gulf]], [[North Euboean Gulf]] in the west, the [[Gulf of Euboea|Euboic Sea]] and the [[Petalion Gulf]]. The [[Petalioi]] archipelago lies to the southwest, while the [[Monilia (Greece)|Monilia]] islands lie to the west.

With a total land area of {{convert|3684|km²||abbr=on}}, the island had a population of 198,130 at the 2001 census.

Most of the island features a hot-summer [[Mediterranean climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification]]: ''Csa'') with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.