Greece facts

• Official name of the country: Elliniki Dimokratia (Hellenic Republic)
• Demonym - Greek (Officially: Hellenic)
• Area: 131.940 sq. km (50,944 sq mi) (land 99%, sea 1%)
• Nearly 80 percent of Greece is mountainous.
• Coastline: 13,676 km
• Population: 11,305,118 (46% men, 54% women)
• Language: Greek (Ellinika)
• Highest mountain: Mt Olympus, 2917 m (9570 ft).
• Capital: Athens
• Religion: 98% Greek Orthodox, 1,3 Muslim, 0,7 Other
• Approximately 16.5 million tourists visit Greece each year, more than the country’s entire population. 
• Greece has more than 2,000 islands. 
• Greece’s largest island is Crete.
• Athens is also the birthplace of Western philosophy, democracy, political science, the Olympic Games, Western literature, major mathematical principles, historiography, and Western theories of tragedy and comedy.