Greece
Greece (officially Hellenic Republic) is a country in Southern Europe, with its capital at Athens, and is home to roughly 10.4M people.
Greek is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Greek.
- »Greece has thousands of islands, of which only a couple of hundred are inhabited.
- »No part of the country is more than about 140 km from the sea.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 82% of the area, plus four further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Greece touches four neighbours: Albania to the northwest, Bulgaria to the northeast, North Macedonia to the north and Turkey to the east. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Athens was a town of a few thousand when it became capital in 1834, chosen for its classical prestige rather than its size, and rebuilt around the ancient core.
129,879 km² (50,147 sq mi), 95th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Nicaragua.
Population 10,405,134, 94th of 198 on file. That averages 80 per km² (207 per sq mi).
The nine stripes are usually read as the nine syllables of 'Eleftheria i Thanatos', freedom or death. The cross stands for the Orthodox Church.