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Greece

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Greece

 

• Location:
  

  Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey

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• Map references:
  

  Europe

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• Area:
  
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• total area:
  

  131,940 sq km

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• land area:
  

  130,800 sq km

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• comparative area:
  

  slightly smaller than Alabama

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• Land boundaries:
  

  total 1,210 km, Albania 282 km, Bulgaria 494 km, Turkey 206 km, FYROM 228 km

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• Coastline:
  

  13,676 km

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• Maritime claims:
  
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• continental shelf:
  

  200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

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• territorial sea:
  

  6 nm

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• International disputes:
  

  complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Turkey in Aegean Sea; Cyprus question; dispute with The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over name, symbols, and certain constitutional provisions; Greece is involved in a bilateral dispute with Albania over border demarcation, the treatment of Albania's ethnic Greek minority, and migrant Albanian workers in Greece

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• Climate:
  

  temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers

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• Terrain:
  

  mostly mountains with ranges extending into sea as peninsulas or chains of islands

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• Natural resources:
  

  bauxite, lignite, magnesite, petroleum, marble

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• Land use:
  
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• arable land:
  

  23%

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• permanent crops:
  

  8%

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• meadows and pastures:
  

  40%

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• forest and woodland:
  

  20%

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• other:
  

  9%

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• Irrigated land:
  

  11,900 sq km (1989 est.)

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• Environment:
  
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• current issues:
  

  air pollution; water pollution

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• natural hazards:
  

  severe earthquakes

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• international agreements:
  

  party to - Air Pollution, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Desertification, Law of the Sea

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• Note:
  

  strategic location dominating the Aegean Sea and southern approach to Turkish Straits; a peninsular country, possessing an archipelago of about 2,000 islands

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