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1. My Country Greece
…… surrounded by sea of many different
shades of blue

2. • Continent Europe
• Region Southeastern Europe (Balkan Peninsula)
• Coordinates 39 N 22 E
• Area Ranked 96th
131,940 km2 (50,940 sq mi)
99.1% land
0.9% water
• Borders Total land borders:1,228 km (763 miles)
Albania:282 km (175 mi)
Bulgaria:494 km (307 mi)
Turkey:206 km (128 mi)
Rep. Macedonia:228 km (142 mi)
• Highest point Mount Olympus: 2,919 m
• Lowest point Mediterranean Sea: 0 m
• Longest river Haliacmon: 322 km (200 mi)
• Largest lakeTrichonida: 98.6 km2 (38.1 sq mi)

3. • Greece is a country located in Southern Europe, on the
southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. Greece is
surrounded on the north by Bulgaria, the Republic of
Macedonia and Albania; to the west by the Ionian Sea;
to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and to the east
by the Aegean Sea and Turkey. The country ranges
approximately in latitude from 35 00′N to 42 00′N and in
longitude from 19 00′E to 28 30′E. As a result, it has
considerable climatic variation, as discussed below. The
country consists of a large mainland; the Peloponnese,
a peninsula connected to the southern tip of the
mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth; and a large number
of islands, including Crete, Rhodes, Corfu, the
Dodecanese and the Cyclades. According to the CIA
World Factbook, Greece has 13,676 kilometres
(8,498 mi) of coastline 1

4. • 80% of Greece is mountainous, and the country is one of the most
mountainous countries of Europe. The Pindus, a chain of mountains lies
across the center of the country in a northwest-to-southeast direction, with
a maximum elevation of 2637 m. Extensions of the same mountain range
stretch across the Peloponnese and underwater across the Aegean,
forming many of the Aegean Islands including Crete, and joining with the
Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey.
• Mount Olympus is the highest point of Greece and the fourth highest in
relative topographical prominence in Europe, rising to 2,919 m above sea
level. The Rhodope Mountains form the border between Greece and
Bulgaria; that area is covered with vast and thick forests.
• Plains also are found in eastern Thessaly, in central Macedonia and in
Thrace. Western Greece contains lakes and wetlands.

5. The sea in my country

6. • Greece is located in Southern Europe, bordering the
Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between
Albania and Turkey. It is in a strategic location
dominating the Aegean Sea and the southern entrance
to the Turkish Straits. It is a peninsular country,
possessing an archipelago of about 3,000 islands.
• Greece's coastline measures 15 021 km.

7. Islands
• Greece has a very large number of islands and
islets, most of them in the Aegean Sea. No exact
figures exist for their total number. Depending
on the minimum size to take into account,
estimates vary between approximately 1,200
and 6,000. A figure frequently cited in travel
guides is 1,425 islands, of which 166 are said to
be inhabited. The Greek Tourism Organization
speaks of 6,000, with 227 of them inhabited.
Only 78 of them have more than 100 inhabitants.

8. • The largest Greek island by area is Crete, located at the southern edge of
the Aegean Sea. The second largest island is Eubea, which is separated
from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as
part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek
Islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the
area of Rhodes, or smaller.
• The Greek islands are traditionally grouped into the following clusters: The
Argo-Saronic Islands in the Saronic gulf near Athens, the Cyclades, a large
but dense collection occupying the central part of the Aegean Sea, the
North Aegean islands, a loose grouping off the west coast of Turkey, the
Dodecanese, another loose collection in the southeast between Crete and
Turkey, the Sporades, a small tight group off the coast of Euboea, and the
Ionian Islands, located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea (one of
these islands, Kythira, is off the southern tip of the Peloponnese Peninsula
and part of the Attica region, but still considered part of the Ionian
Islands, mainly because of historical reasons). There are also many
islands, islets and rocks that surround the coast of Crete.

9. Some nice photos of our islands

11. Ionian Islands
• The Ionian Islands are a group of seven islands.
The six northern island are off the west coast of
Greece, in the Ionian Sea. The last
island, Kythira, is off the southern tip of the
Peloponnesus, the southern part of the Greek
mainland.

12. Aegean Islands
• Dodecanese, Sporades, Saronic
Islands, and Cyclades: The islands of the
Aegean Sea, situated between mainland Greece
to the west and north and Anatolia to the east;
the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south.