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Santorini island caldera, Greece
Panoramic view of the Santorini caldera, taken from the town of Oia. Santorini today is what remained after a tremendous volcanic eruption that destroyed the earliest settlements on the formerly single island, the eruption created the caldera.
Image: Leonard G.
 

About Greece

Greece Coat of Arms Satellite view is showing Greece, a Mediterranean country in southeastern Europe composed of 2 main peninsulas and some thousands of islands in the Aegean (west) and Ionian seas (east of mainland Greece).

With an area of 132 000 km² Greece is slightly larger than half the size of the United Kingdom, or slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Alabama.

Greece has a population is about 10.8 million people. Spoken languages are Greek (official) and Turkish (predominantly spoken by a minority of Turks in Western Thrace).

The Greek Islands:
About 6,000 islands and islets in the Mediterranean Sea belong to Greece, 227 of them are inhabited.
The markers on the map point to the largest Greek islands, a click on a marker reveals a short description of each island.

Kavala
Kavala is the second largest city in northern Greece and the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia, a historical region of Greece.
Image: P. Vasiliadis
 
Some points of interest are: the Acropolis of Athens with the Parthenon, Ancient Agora (venue), Temple of Hephaestus, and nearby Acropolis Museum, Meteora official website (suspended in the air Greek Orthodox monasteries), Samariá Gorge (gorge on the island of Crete), Knossos (archaeological site on Crete), Spinalonga (island, and until 1957 a leper colony), Heraklion Archaeological Museum (Minoan art), Akrotiri (Minoan Bronze Age settlement on Santorini Island), Santorini caldera, Achilleion (palace on Corfu, built by Empress of Austria (Sisi)), Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki), Delphi (sanctuary of the oracle).

Border countries are: Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Republic of Macedonia, Greece shares maritime borders with Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, and Libya.

Largest city and the national capital is Athens (Αθήνα), center of the cultural and political life in Greece.
Spoken language is Greek (official).

The Map shows Greece with prefecture capitals, cities, islands, expressways, main roads and streets and the location of Athens International Airport, Macedonia International Airport (IATA code: SKG) in Thessaloniki, and "Eleftherios Venizelos" (IATA code: ATH), and Heraklion International Airport, "Nikos Kazantzakis" on the island of Crete (IATA code: HER).

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Local Time Greece:
Monday-March-18  04:30  
Standard Time Zone (EET): UTC/GMT +2 hours
Daylight Saving Time in use from end of March until end of October: time zone offset: UTC/GMT +3 hours
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Google Earth: Searchable map and satellite view of the Hellenic Republic (Greece).
 

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More about Greece:

Landmarks:
Annotated map/satellite view of Acropolis of Athens

Mount Olympus

Cities:
Searchable map/satellite view of Athens

Country:
Political Map of Greece
Administrative Map of Greece

Greece Country Profile

Cyprus:
Cyprus Country Profile
Map of Cyprus

Continent:
Map of the Mediterranean
Political Map of the Mediterranean Region.
Map of the Balkan Peninsula
Political Map of the Balkans.
Map of Central and Eastern Europe
Map of Europe

 
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