Greece is a country located at the junction of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It has a long coastline of thousands of islands in the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Ioan seas. This country shares its land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north. The mainland is mountainous and the country has a rich cultural heritage from Classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and Ottoman Turkish rule.
The majority of the population which numbers, 10, 408, 155, is made up of a majority ethnic Greek, with other minorities including Turks, Albanians, and Macedonians. Athens is the capital and largest city in Greece measuring 926 square miles out of the country's total area of 50,949 square miles.
Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilisation, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy. Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theatre, the Olympic Games.
From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organised into various independent city states that spanned the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Philip II of Macedon united mos of present-day Greece in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering most of the known world from the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern India. Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century BC, becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire. The Greek Orthodox Church, which emerged in the first century AD, helped shape the modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox world.
The official language of Greece is Greek. And its main religion is Christianity with 90% of the population identifying with the Greek Orthodox Church. Three percent are of other Christian persuasion, wth 4% no religion, 2% Islam and, 1% other.
Greece is a unitary parliamentary republic with a president, prime minister and parliament speaker. Its economy is mainly driven by petroleum exports which accounts for 29% of its total exports. Other products exported include: aluminum, medicament, fruits and nuts-fresh and dried, vegetables, and fish-fresh or frozen.
Its GDP stands at 217 billion USD.
The majority of the population which numbers, 10, 408, 155, is made up of a majority ethnic Greek, with other minorities including Turks, Albanians, and Macedonians. Athens is the capital and largest city in Greece measuring 926 square miles out of the country's total area of 50,949 square miles.
Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilisation, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy. Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theatre, the Olympic Games.
From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organised into various independent city states that spanned the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Philip II of Macedon united mos of present-day Greece in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering most of the known world from the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern India. Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century BC, becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire. The Greek Orthodox Church, which emerged in the first century AD, helped shape the modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox world.
The official language of Greece is Greek. And its main religion is Christianity with 90% of the population identifying with the Greek Orthodox Church. Three percent are of other Christian persuasion, wth 4% no religion, 2% Islam and, 1% other.
Greece is a unitary parliamentary republic with a president, prime minister and parliament speaker. Its economy is mainly driven by petroleum exports which accounts for 29% of its total exports. Other products exported include: aluminum, medicament, fruits and nuts-fresh and dried, vegetables, and fish-fresh or frozen.
Its GDP stands at 217 billion USD.