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Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeastern Europe. It occupies the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, with a population of around 10 million. With nine regions and thousands of islands, it has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean. The Ionian Sea is west of the mainland, Albania northwest, and North Macedonia and Bulgaria north. Turkey is east both by land and the Aegean Sea. The capital, Athens, is the largest Greek city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
These are English demonyms for people from Greece. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
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Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
Includes only parts of some modern states: much of Britain south of Scotland, and areas west of the Rhine or south of the Danube in Germany.
The aquila was a legion's eagle standard, not a national flag. No original legionary eagle is known to survive.
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Read the historical overview →An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.
Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.
BEYOND THE MAP
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Greece. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.
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| Athens capital | 664,046 |
| Thessaloníki | 317,778 |
| Pátra | 168,034 |
| Piraeus | 163,688 |
| Lárisa | 146,926 |
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers
Northern hemisphere.
Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: climate zone, currencies, famous, past leaders.
