Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Athens
- Region
- Europe, Southern Europe
- Population
- 10,413,962 (2025)
- Area
- 131,940 km²
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Languages
- Modern Greek (1453-), English, French
- Calling code
- +30
- Internet domain
- .gr
- ISO codes
- GR, GRC, 300
- Time zone
- UTC+2:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ### ## (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Greece covers about 131,940 square kilometres. By area it ranks 98th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Nepal and a little larger than Nicaragua. It shares a land border with 4 neighbours: Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Türkiye. Its centre lies at about 39° north, 22° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 10.4 million people live in Greece (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 94th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.13 percent of the world's people. On average there are 79 people to each square kilometre. About 79 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 82 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Modern Greek (1453-), English, French. A person from Greece is called Greek.
Money and economy
The currency is the euro (code EUR, symbol €). It is also the main currency of Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland and 28 more. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 281 billion (2025), which is about US$ 26,948 for each person (2025).
Time
Greece uses one time zone, UTC+2:00 (Europe/Athens). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Athens | 664,046 |
| Thessaloníki | 317,778 |
| Pátra | 168,034 |
| Piraeus | 163,688 |
| Lárisa | 146,926 |
| Peristéri | 139,981 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southern Europe
Andorra, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Spain. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.