!!!Greece: Geography
||Location|Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey
||Geographic Coordinates|39 00 N, 22 00 E[{GoogleMap location='39.0,22.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''131,957 sq km\\''land: ''130,647 sq km\\''water: ''1,310 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''1,110 km\\''border countries: ''Albania 212 km, Bulgaria 472 km, Macedonia 234 km, Turkey 192 km
||Coastline|13,676 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Mediterranean Sea 0 m\\''highest point: ''Mount Olympus 2,917 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Mount Olympus (Greece) 2919 m; Myticas 2917 m; Skolio 2911 m; Smolikas 2637 m; Grámmos 2523 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Mount Olympus 2917 m; Óros Smólikas 2637 m; Voras 2524 m; Óros Týmfi 2497 m; Parnassus 2457 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Europe/Greece/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands
||Natural Hazards|severe earthquakes volcanism: Santorini (elev. 367 m) has been deemed a Decade Volcano by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, worthy of study due to its explosive history and close proximity to human populations; although there have been very few eruptions in recent centuries, Methana and Nisyros in the Aegean are classified as historically active
||Natural Resource|lignite, petroleum, iron ore, bauxite, lead, zinc, nickel, magnesite, marble, salt, hydropower potential
||Land Use|''arable land: ''18.95%\\''permanent crops: ''8.73%\\''other: ''72.32% (2011)
||Climate|temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers
||Irrigated Land|15,550 sq km (2007)
||Renewable Water Resources|74.25 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|air pollution; water pollution
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds
||Large Cities|Athens; Thessaloniki; Piraieus; Patrai; Peristerion\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Europe/Greece/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|strategic location dominating the Aegean Sea and southern approach to Turkish Straits; a peninsular country, possessing an archipelago of about 2,000 islands