Greece
Greece
Capital: Athens
Geography: a country in southern Europe on the tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the north, and with Turkey to the east. The waters of the Aegean Sea border Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Sea to the west and south. Regarded by many as the cradle of Western civilization and being the birthplace of democracy and the Olympic Games, Greece has a very long and remarkably rich history during which its culture has proven especially influential in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Greece consists of a large mainland at the southern end of the Balkans; the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth); and numerous islands (around 3.000), including Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Euboea and the Dodecanese and the Cycladic groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian Sea islands. Greece has more than 15,000 kilometres (9.300 mi) of coastline and a land boundary of 1.160 kilometres (721 mi). Approximately 8% of the nation's territory is covered by forests.
Population: 10.66 million people
Language: New Greek. People also speak English, German, Italian, French
Religion: Christian
Time: the same as in Belarus
Currency: euro
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