Greek Facts

Location: Southeastern Europe at the meeting point of three continents – Europe, Asia and Africa.
Neighbors: Albania, FYRoM, Bulgaria, Turkey. Greece borders Bulgaria and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Fyrom) to the north, Albania to the northwest and Turkey to the northeast. The western borders are formed by the Ionian Sea, the southern by the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern borders by the Aegean Sea.
Total Area: 131.957 km2
Coastline: 13,676 km length
Seas: Aegean Sea (east of the mainland), Ionian Sea (to the west), Cretan Sea and Mediterranean Sea (to the south)
Islands: 6000 islands and islets, of which 227 inhabited islands. Most populated: Crete (622,913), Evia (191,206), Rhodes (115,490)
Highest point: Mount Olympos, 2.917 meters above sea level

Population: 10,569,703 (July 2021 est.)
Population as a percentage of the General EU population: 2,1 % (2016)
Capital: Athens, Population of Athens: 3.153 million
Official Language: Greek. Everyone in the film business speaks English.

Political system: Presidential parliamentary democracy
Prime Minister: Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2019)
Member of the European Union: since 1st January 1981
NATO member: since 1952
Schengen member:  since January 2000

Currency: Euro. Part of the Eurozone since 1st January 2001
VAT: 24%
Workforce: 3.6 million people
GDP: 184,490 billion €