Greece

Greece is a country located in South East Europe in the southernmost tip of Balkan Peninsula touching the Eastern Mediterranean. Bordered by Bulgaria and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), to the Northwest; by Albania to the Northeast; by Turkey to the East; by the Aegean Sea, to the West by the Ionian and to the South by the Mediterranean Sea. Greece has a long and rich history with tremendous cultural impact on three continents.

Greece consists of a large mainland part, the southern tip of the Balkans, which connects with the former continental Peloponnese with the Isthmus of Corinth. After the construction of the Corinth Canal the Peloponnese became an island. Greece is enclosed by the Ionian, the Aegean, the Libyan Sea and the Lykio Sea. Greece has 13.676 miles length of coastline, which is considered extremely large, result of the rich landscape territorial dismemberment and the rich terrain of the region. Also there are countless islands, which are more than 2500 and are primarily the result of the collision of the African plate with the European.

Greece features a vast number of islands, between 1,200 and 6,000, depending on the definition, 227 of which are inhabited. Crete is the largest and most populous island; Euboea, separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, is the second largest, followed by Rhodes and Lesbos.

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 northeast Euboea, and the Ionian Islands, located to the west of the mainland in the Ionian Sea.

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