Greece

Greece is a country in southern Europe. Covering an area of ​​131,957 km2 for just under eleven million inhabitants, the country shares land borders with Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey and maritime borders with Cyprus, Albania , Italy, Libya, Egypt and Turkey (the latter is the source of Greek-Turkish litigation in the Aegean Sea). The Ionian Sea to the west and the Aegean Sea to the east, parts of the Mediterranean Sea, frame the country, one-fifth of the territory of which is made up of more than 9,000 islands and islets, of which nearly 200 are inhabited. In addition, 80% of its territory is made up of mountains, the highest of which is Mount Olympus, whose summit rises to 2,917 meters. Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilization, homeland of the arts (theater, architecture), politics (Athens is the cradle of democracy), philosophy (Stoicism, Epicureanism, Aristotelianism) and sciences (mathematics, physics, medicine). Ancient Greece bequeathed to Europe a colossal cultural and linguistic heritage.