Geography of Greece
Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.[5] It is bordered to the north by Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria; to the east by Turkey, and is surrounded to the east by the Aegean Sea, to the south by the Cretan and the Libyan seas, and to the west by the Ionian Sea which separates Greece from Italy.
Continent
131,957 km2 (50,949 sq mi)
99.13%
0.87%
13,676 km (8,498 mi)
689.76 km (428.60 mi)
Mount Olympus
2,918 metres (9,573 ft)
Haliacmon
297 kilometres (185 mi)
Lake Trichonida
98.6 km2 (38.07 sq mi)
80% mountainous, plains (east and north-east)
earthquakes, floods, droughts and wildfires
air pollution, water pollution
505,572 km2 (195,202 sq mi)[4]
The country consists of a mountainous, peninsular mainland jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea at the southernmost tip of the Balkans, and two smaller peninsulas projecting from it:
the Chalkidiki and the Peloponnese, which is joined to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth. Greece also has many islands, of various sizes, the largest being Crete, Euboea, Lesvos, Rhodes, Chios, Kefalonia, and Corfu; groups of smaller islands include the Dodecanese and the Cyclades. According to the CIA World Factbook, Greece has 13,676 kilometres (8,498 mi) of coastline, the largest in the Mediterranean Basin.[6]
Greece's latitude ranges from 35°N to 42°N and its longitude from 19°E to 28°E. As a result of this and its physical geography, the country has considerable climatic variation.
This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook. CIA.