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Greece: map and facts
Greece is in Southern Europe. It has about 10.4 million people (2025), the 93rd largest population. It covers 131,960 km², the 95th largest by area. That is about 79 people per km². Its highest point is Mount Olympus, at 2,918 m. The longest river on its map is the Maritsa, 490 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 10,413,962 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 131,960 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Athens
- Highest point: Mount Olympus, 2,918 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 36.9% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Greece, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Maritsa: 490 km
- Struma: 415 km
- Haliacmon: 297 km
- Arda: 290 km
- Vjosa: 280 km
- Mesta: 230 km
- Acheloos: 217 km
- Pineios: 216 km
- Loudias: 50 km
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mount Olympus: 2,918 m (its highest point)
- Psiloritis: 2,456 m
Mountain ranges: Pindus Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Balkan Peninsula, Cyclades and Ionian Islands.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): savanna 24%, farmland 20.1%, grassland 19.5%, wooded savanna 14.6%, evergreen conifer forest 8.8%, deciduous broadleaf forest 4.4%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 69.4%, hills 24.3%, plains 6.2%.
Forests covered 36.9% of its land in 2024, up from 28.8% in 1990 (World Bank).
Neighbours
Greece shares land borders with Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Turkey on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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