Greece
country
Athens
capital city
Greek, English, French
language(s)
EUR
currency
131,940 km²
area
10,668,354
population
80.86 people/km²
population density
Greece
Regions of Greece
- Arcadia
- Chalcidice
- Laconia
- Messenia
- Nomós Achaḯas
- Nomós Aitolías kai Akarnanías
- Nomós Argolídos
- Nomós Attikís
- Nomós Chaniás
- Nomós Chíou
- Nomós Dodekanísou
- Nomós Drámas
- Nomós Evrytanías
- Nomós Evvoías
- Nomós Florínis
- Nomós Grevenón
- Nomós Ileías
- Nomós Imathías
- Nomós Ioannínon
- Nomós Irakleíou
- Nomós Kardhítsas
- Nomós Kastoriás
- Nomós Kaválas
- Nomós Kefallinías
- Nomós Kerkýras
- Nomós Kilkís
- Nomós Korinthías
- Nomós Kozánis
- Nomós Kykládon
- Nomós Larísis
- Nomós Lasithíou
- Nomós Lefkádas
- Nomós Lésvou
- Nomós Magnisías
- Nomós Pierías
- Nomós Prevézis
- Nomós Péllis
- Nomós Rethýmnis
- Nomós Rodópis
- Nomós Serrón
- Nomós Sámou
- Nomós Thessaloníkis
- Nomós Trikálon
- Nomós Voiotías
- Nomós Xánthis
- Nomós Zakýnthou
- Nomós Ártis
- Nomós Évrou
- Phocis
- Phthiotis
- Piraiós Nomós
- Thesprotia
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Greece description
Greece [ɡɹiːs] (Greek: Ελλάδα, transliterated: Elláda [e̞ˈlaða], historically Ἑλλάς, Ellás, IPA: [e̞ˈlas]), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, [e̞liniˈkʲi ðimo̞kɾaˈtia]), is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the Eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of islands. Greece lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia and Africa. It is heir to the heritages of ancient Greece, the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule. Greece is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama including both tragedy and comedy. Greece is a developed country, a member of the European Union since 1981, a member of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union since 2001, NATO since 1952, the OECD since 1961, the WEU since 1995 and ESA since 2005. Athens is the capital; Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion, Volos, Ioannina, Larissa and Kavala are some of the country's other major cities. Greece consists of a mountainous mainland jutting out into the sea at the southern end of the Balkans, the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth), and numerous islands (around 2,000), including Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Chios, the Dodecanese and the Cycladic groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian Sea islands. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world with 14,880 km (9,246 mi); its land boundary is 1,160 km (721 mi).
