- Official name of the country: Elliniki Dimokratia (Hellenic Republic)
- Demonym - Greek (Officially: Hellenic)
- Area: 131.940 sq. km (50,944 sq mi) (land 99%, sea 1%)
- Nearly 80 percent of Greece is mountainous.
- Coastline: 13,676 km
- Population: 11,305,118 (46% men, 54% women)
- Language: Greek (Ellinika)
- Highest mountain: Mt Olympus, 2917 m (9570 ft).
- Capital: Athens
- Religion: 98% Greek Orthodox, 1,3 Muslim, 0,7 Other
- Approximately 16.5 million tourists visit Greece each year, more than the country’s entire population.
- Greece has more than 2,000 islands.
- Greece’s largest island is Crete.
- Athens is also the birthplace of Western philosophy, democracy, political science, the Olympic Games, Western literature, major mathematical principles, historiography, and Western theories of tragedy and comedy.
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