Facts About Greece
Name of the country: Elliniki Dimokratia (Ellas, Ellada)
People: Ellines (Hellenes) Women: Ellenides Men: Ellines
Size: 131.940 sq. km (land 99%, sea 1%)
Coastline: 13,676 km
Population: just under 11000000 (46% men, 54% women)
Language: Greek (Ellinika)
Coordinates: 39 00N 22 00E
Borders to: Albania, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
Bulgaria, Turkey
Highest mountain: Mt Olympus, 2917 m
Capital: Athens
Natural resources: petroleum, marble, hydropower, magnetite,
lignite, bauxite (and gold)
Natural hazards: earthquakes
Currency: EURO €
Religion: 98% Greek Orthodox, 1,3 Muslim, 0,7 Other
Literacy: 95%
Population growth: 0,14 %
Life expectancy: 82,21 (women), 76,98 (men)
Work branches: 8,3 % agriculture, 27,3 % industry, 64,4 %
services
Unemployment: 8,3% (2007)
Industries: agriculture: food, wine, tobacco, dairy products,
olives, tomatoes, potatoes, meat, corn, wheat, barley, sugar
beets Tourism, textiles, Chemicals, Metal, Mining, petroleum.
Government: parliamentary republic, until 1974 monarchy
Administrative divisions:51 prefectures (nomoi, singular -
nomos)and 1 autonomous region*; Ayion Oros* (Mt. Athos), Aitolia
kai Akarnania, Achaia, Argolis, Arkadia, Arta, Attici,
Dodekanisos, Drama, Evritania, Evros, Evvoia,
Florina, Fokis, Fthiotida, Grevena, Ilia, Imathia, Ioannina,
Irakleion, Karditsa, Kastoria, Kavala, Cephalonia, Kerkyra
(Corfu), Halcidiki, Chania, Chios, Cyclades, Kilkis, Korinth,
Kozani, Lakonia, Larissa, Lasithi, Lesvos,
Lefcas, Magnisia, Messinia, Pella, Pieria, Preveza, Rethymnon,
Rodhopi, Samos, Serrai, Thesprotia, Thessaloniki, Trikala,
Voiotia, Xanthi, Zakynthos
National Holiday: 25 March (1821 Day when the war of
independence broke out.)
Chief of State: Karolos Papoulias
Prime Minister: Georgios Papandreou, Socialist party (PASOK) since
October-06-2009
Elections: every 4 years
Parliament: 300 seats, the MP's are voted by the people for four
years.
Last election (4 October 2009): PASOK 43.92% 160 seats NEA DEMOKRATIA
33.48 % (91 seats) , KKE 7.54% (21 seats), LA.O.S 5.63% (15), SY.RI.ZA
4.60%
(13). source www.ypes.gr.
Budget:(2007) Gross Domestic Product 314,6 billion $ Gross
National Product 310,8 billion $ world rank 29 Gross National
Income per capita 30,600 $ world rank 24,
National external debt: $301,9 billion $. Annual inflation 2.8%
Electricity: 91,24% hydro, 8,26% fossil fuel, 0,5% other
Ports and harbours: Alexandroupolis, Eleusis, Irakleion, Kavala,
Kerkyra (Corfu), Chalkis, Igoumenitsa, Lavrion, Patras, Pireus,
Thessaloniki, Volos
International organizations: Australia Group, BIS, BSEC, CCC,
CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECE,
EIB, EU, FAO, G- 6, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA,
IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat,
Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, NAM (guest), NATO, NEA,
NSG,
OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR,
UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNMIBH, UNOMIG, UPU, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO,
WToO, WTrO, ZC
Trade partners: Germany, Italy, UK, France, Netherlands, US.
National Service: Obligatory, 1 year.
Military branches: Hellenic Army, Hellenic Navy, Hellenic
Air Force, National Guard, Police.
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