Country Chooser Country InformationGreece Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, D, E, F,
TV Systems:
System:PAL B (was SECAM) / PAL G
DVD-Region: 2
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey
Area:
total: 131,940 sq km
land: 130,800 sq km
water: 1,140 sq km
Climate:
temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers
Terrain:
mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
Economy
GDP: $236.8 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 3.7% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $22,200 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 3.5% (2005 est.)
Currency:
note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001)
People
Population: 10,688,058 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 0.18% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
Languages:
Greek 99% (official), English, French
Government
Capital:
name: Athens
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
Note: Information on Greece was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Greece, please visit one of the links below.
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