... at the southeastern tip of Europe, occupying the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsula and numerous islands. It shares borders with Albania and Former Republic of Yugoslav Macedonia on the North-west side, Bulgaria on the North side, and Turkey on the North-east side. Greece's south side is open to the Mediterranean Sea; its east side is open to the Aegean Sea and its west side open to the Ionian Sea. This unique location makes Greece the crossroads of several civilizations and an important east-west and north-south transport and communications hub. This is also why Greece is well known for its great fleet of ships. The total area of Greece is 131,940 squared kilometers which are divided into 130,800 squared kilometers of land and 1,140 squared kilometers of water. In comparison, Greece is slightly smaller than the American State of Alabama. Around eighty percent of the land in Greece is mountainous ...

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