Has around 6,000 islands and islets, of which only about 227 are inhabited.
๐ฌ๐ท
Greece
Hellenic Republic ยท ฮฮปฮปฮฌฮดฮฑ
Europe
ยท Southern Europe
0Population
131.99Kkmยฒ of land
$19.58KGDP / person
AthensCapital
- ISO codes
- GR ยท GRC
- Density
- 81 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Greek
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +30
- Internet domain
- .gr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 39.4930ยฐ N, 21.7260ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Greek
- UN region
- Southern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $209.85B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Greece stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
85th
of 242 ยท 0.14% of world population
Land area
98th
of 242 ยท 0.09% of world land
GDP per person
71st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
119th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Greece
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 10,716,322 people, the 85th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.14 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 131,990 kmยฒ, making it the 98th largest country here - about 4.3 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 81 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Athens, at 37.99ยฐ N, 23.73ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,242,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey and North Macedonia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Athens.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Greek.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Athens
--:--:--
UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Athens
Attiki
37.9853ยฐ N, 23.7314ยฐ E
3.24M
2
Thessaloniki
Kentriki Makedonia
40.6981ยฐ N, 22.8831ยฐ E
828K
๐ Peaks
Mount Olympus
2,917 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Santorini
Beach
The rim of a volcanic caldera that blew apart around 1600 BCE in one of the largest eruptions in human history.
Meteora Monasteries
Spiritual
Monasteries on sandstone pillars, once reachable only by rope ladders that the monks pulled up behind them.
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Greece.