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 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          
 
 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)
 
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