Gerakas, Greece
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@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ --- schema: foundry-doc-v1 title: "Gerakas Regional Market" slug: gr-attica-gerakas language: en language_protocol: PROSE-TOPIC category: markets index_group: market-profiles type: reference content_type: topic quality: stub status: active audience: customer-woodfine bcsc_class: current-fact short_description: "European Regional Market — Athens metropolitan reference point, 12.3 km; 1 Regional-tier co-location cluster." paired_with: markets/gr-attica-gerakas.es.md wikipedia_sourced: true last_edited: 2026-08-25 editor: editorial --- Gerakas, an eastern suburb of Athens in the East Attica regional unit, holds European Regional Market standing under the co-location screening framework's composition gate. The framework's nearest major metropolitan reference point for the market is Athens, 12.3 kilometres away — the shortest such distance among Greece's seven current entries. Gerakas carries one Regional-tier co-location cluster. ## Overview According to Wikipedia (accessed 2026-08-25), Gerakas recorded 33,856 residents at the 2021 census across roughly 6.6 square kilometres, and has formed part of the Pallini municipality since a 2011 administrative merger. <!-- wikipedia-sourced: population/description --> The area shifted rapidly from farmland to dense suburban housing after infrastructure built for the 2004 Athens Olympics, and is recorded in antiquity as the birthplace of the philosopher Epicurus. ## Regional Market Standing | Field | Value | |---|---| | Metropolitan reference point | Athens | | Distance | 12.3 km | | Co-location clusters | 1 Regional-tier | | Catchment population | 3,547,734 | | Catchment method | Strongest member cluster (single-cluster fallback) | Gerakas has one Regional-tier co-location cluster. The catchment population figure reflects the scale of the broader Athens metropolitan catchment underlying that cluster, not a population unique to Gerakas itself — a consequence of the framework's disclosed single-cluster fallback method, not an error. Cluster-level detail — the specific retail and civic anchors composing the cluster — is pending the underlying GIS dataset and is not included in this stub. See [[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe]] for the full Top 400 set and [[co-location-methodology|Co-location Methodology]] for how markets qualify. ## See Also - [[atlas-greece|Greece Regional Market Index]] - [[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe]] - [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets Intelligence System]] - [[co-location-methodology|Co-location Methodology]] ## References - [Gerakas, Greece](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerakas,_Greece) — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-08-25 *Wikipedia content reproduced under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).*