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Geography

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

Area:
total area: 131,940 sq km
land area: 130,800 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Alabama

Land boundaries: total 1,210 km, Albania 282 km, Bulgaria 494 km, Turkey 206 km, TheFormer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 228 km

Coastline: 13,676 km


People

Population: 10,647,511 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 18% (female 904,374; male 947,494)
15-64 years: 67% (female 3,601,029; male 3,565,931)
65 years and over: 15% (female 919,044; male 709,639)

Population growth rate: 0.72% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 10.56 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 9.31 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 5.99 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 8.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.92 years
male: 75.39 years
female: 80.59 years

Total fertility rate: 1.46 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Greek 98%, other 2%

Religions: Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%

Languages: Greek (official), English, French

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
total population: 95%
male: 98%
female: 93%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Hellenic Republic
conventional short form: Greece

Type: presidential parliamentary government; monarchy rejected by referendum8 December 1974

Capital: Athens

Independence: 1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)

Constitution: 11 June 1975


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $93.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 0.4%

National product per capita: $8,870

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.9%

Unemployment rate: 10.1%

Electricity:
capacity: 8,970,000 kW
production: 35.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,257 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).