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Greece is a country in Southern Europe. According to the 2011 census, Greece's population is around 11 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city.
1)Greece is mainland located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. Greece is surrounded on the north by Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia and Albania; to the west by the Ionian Sea; to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the east by the Aegean Sea and Turkey.
2)The country consists of nine geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands (including the Dodecanese and Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands.
3)Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km and a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited). Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest.
4)Greece is a founding member of the United Nations, a member of the European Union since 1981. Greece's economy is also the largest in the Balkans, where Greece is an important regional investor.
Greece is a parliamentary republic. The nominal head of state is the President of the Republic, who is elected by the Parliament for a five-year term.
5)It is a developed country with high standards of living. Its economy mainly comprises the service sector and industry while agriculture makes up 3.0% of the national economic output. Important Greek industries include tourism and merchant shipping and the country is also a considerable agricultural producer. In the last years Greece live a big crisis.
6)An important percentage of Greece's national income comes from tourism. The vast majority of visitors in Greece in 2007 came from the European continent, while the most visitors from a single nationality were those from the United Kingdom and Germany. In 2010, it was voted that the northern and second-largest city of Thessaloniki is the
1)Greece is mainland located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. Greece is surrounded on the north by Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia and Albania; to the west by the Ionian Sea; to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the east by the Aegean Sea and Turkey.
2)The country consists of nine geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands (including the Dodecanese and Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands.
3)Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km and a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited). Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest.
4)Greece is a founding member of the United Nations, a member of the European Union since 1981. Greece's economy is also the largest in the Balkans, where Greece is an important regional investor.
Greece is a parliamentary republic. The nominal head of state is the President of the Republic, who is elected by the Parliament for a five-year term.
5)It is a developed country with high standards of living. Its economy mainly comprises the service sector and industry while agriculture makes up 3.0% of the national economic output. Important Greek industries include tourism and merchant shipping and the country is also a considerable agricultural producer. In the last years Greece live a big crisis.
6)An important percentage of Greece's national income comes from tourism. The vast majority of visitors in Greece in 2007 came from the European continent, while the most visitors from a single nationality were those from the United Kingdom and Germany. In 2010, it was voted that the northern and second-largest city of Thessaloniki is the