Greece

Country and people
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Name: Hellas, Hellenic Republic (Greece)
Language: Greek
Form of government: Republic
Area: 131, 957 square kilometers
Head of State President Karolos Papoulias
Head of Government Kostas Karamanlis
Motto: Freedom or Death
( Ε λ ε υ θ ε � ί α ή Θ ά ν α τ ο ς Elefther a th natos )
Capital: Athens
Population: 11.057.000
Currency: Euro
National anthem Ymnos is tin Eleftherian
(`` Ode to Freedom ´)
National holiday March 25th (1821, beginning of the Greek Revolution)
-28. October (1940, Ochi day)
Religion: Greek Orthodox
Time zone: UTC 2
Internet:. gr
Telephone code: 30

The country
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Greece is located on the eastern Mediterranean in southeastern Europe.
It is divided into mainland Greece with the capital Athens, the peninsula of the Peloponnese and the Ionian and G ic islands.
The neighboring states are Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria in the north and Turkey in the east. In the west, Greece is bordered by the Ionian Sea, in the south by the Libyan Sea and, in the broadest sense, Africa.

The country has a total area of ​​131,990 km, of which about a quarter of the area is on approximately 9,840 islands. Due to this diversity of islands, Greece has a coastline of more than 15,000 km, which is very remarkable in relation to its land mass.

Greece is a very mountainous country, almost 78% of the country are mountains.
The central mountains and mountain regions are the Olymp-Ossa-Pelion mountain range, the Pindus mountains and the Rhodope mountains on the Greek mainland.

The Taygetos Mountains rise up on the Peloponnese peninsula, the Ida and Psiloritis Mountains on Crete. The highest point in the country is the Mytikas (2917 m) in the Olympus region.

Climate
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Greece has a Mediterranean climate with dry, hot summers and mild, predominantly humid winters, although in northern Greece it is also in the plains in winter Snowfall can come (Athens, Thessaloniki)
The coastal areas are milder in winter, in the interior of the country there can be night frosts.
The annual rainfall varies between 400 and 1000 mm.

In the area of ​​the islands, mainly the g is, violent autumn / winter storms can occur, in summer the Meltemi dominates here, a strong north wind, sometimes at gale force.



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