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Greece
Main prefix :
SV
Callsigns series :
J4A-J4Z, SVA-SZZ
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Europe
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20
Metropole :
Greece
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Nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white; there is a blue square in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Greek Orthodoxy, the established religion of the country.
Greece
Capital:
Athens
Administrative divisions:
13 regions (perifereies , singular - perifereia ) and 1 autonomous monastic state* (aftonomi monastiki politeia ); Agion Oros* (Mount Athos), Anatoliki Makedonia kai Thraki (East Macedonia and Thrace), Attiki (Attica), Dytiki Ellada (Western Greece), Dytiki Makedonia (Western Macedonia), Ionia Nisia (Ionian Islands), Ipeiros (Epirus), Kentriki Makedonia (Central Macedonia), Kriti (Crete), Notio Aigaio (South Aegean), Peloponnisos (Peloponnese), Sterea Ellada (Central Greece), Thessalia (Thessaly), and Voreio Aigaio (North Aegean).
Population:
10,645,343 (July 2002 est.)
Languages:
Greek 99% (official), English, French
Geographic coordinates:
39° 00' N, 22° 00' E
Area total:
131,940 sq. km
Land area:
130,800 sq. km
Water area:
1,140 sq. km
Total land boundaries:
1,228 km
Borders with neighbor countries:
Albania 282 km, Bulgaria 494 km, Turkey 206 km, Macedonia 246 km
Coastline:
13,676 km
Elevation extremes:
Mediterranean Sea 0 m - Mount Olympus 2,917 m
Internet country code:
.gr
Currency:
euro (EUR)
Name - conventional long form:
Hellenic Republic
Name - conventional short form:
Greece
Name - local long form:
Elliniki Dhimokratia
Name - local short form:
Ellas or Ellada
Former name:
Kingdom of Greece
Independence:
1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
Constitution:
11 June 1975, amended March 1986 and April 2001
Government type:
parliamentary republic, monarchy rejected by referendum 8 December 1974
National holiday:
Independence Day, 25 March (1821)