Country guide

Greece

Capital, flag, borders and quick geography facts for Greece.

Outline map shape of Greece
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Flag of Greece

Key facts

Capital
Athens
Region
Europe
Area
131,990 km²
Population
10,400,720

Neighboring countries

Greece has 4 land neighbors in the country data.

  • Albania
  • Bulgaria
  • Turkey
  • North Macedonia

Learn Greece

Athens is Greece's capital. Athens is widely credited as the birthplace of democracy, after the statesman Cleisthenes introduced reforms known as demokratia around 507 BCE.

Greece covers 131,990 square kilometers, bordering Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and North Macedonia, with Turkey as its largest neighbor. Thousands of islands and islets are scattered across the Aegean and Ionian Seas, of which only a couple hundred are permanently inhabited.

The Vikos Gorge in Greece is listed by Guinness World Records as the world's deepest gorge relative to its width.

Trivia

  • Greece's Meteora monasteries were built on towering sandstone "columns of the sky."
  • Greece is scattered with thousands of islands and islets across the Aegean and Ionian Seas, of which only a couple hundred are permanently inhabited.
  • The Vikos Gorge in Greece is listed by Guinness World Records as the world's deepest gorge relative to its width.
  • Athens is widely credited as the birthplace of democracy, after the statesman Cleisthenes introduced reforms known as demokratia around 507 BCE.
  • The Greek alphabet, developed by the 8th century BCE, is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically represent vowels as well as consonants.

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