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title: "Greece vs Netherlands — area, population, currency"
description: "Greece is 131,957 km² with 10,413,962 people; Netherlands is 41,543 km² with 18,087,633. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/greece-vs-netherlands/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Greece vs Netherlands

**Greece vs Netherlands: Greece is larger; Netherlands has more people**

131,957 km² vs 41,543 km² · 10,413,962 vs 18,087,633

Greece is 3.2 times larger than Netherlands — 131,957 against 41,543 km². Netherlands is 1.7 times more populous than Greece — 18,087,633 against 10,413,962 people.

## Side by side

|  | Greece | Netherlands |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Athens | Amsterdam |
| Area | 131,957 km² | 41,543 km² |
| Population | 10,413,962 (2025) | 18,087,633 (2025) |
| Density | 78.9 /km² | 435.4 /km² |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | Greek | Dutch |
| Time zones | UTC+02:00 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +30 | +31 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | Europe |
| ISO codes | GR / GRC | NL / NLD |

## Population density

Netherlands is 5.5 times more densely populated than Greece — 435 against 79 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Greece

Somewhere between 1,200 and 6,000 islands depending on how you count a rock, of which about 227 are inhabited. Greece has roughly 13,700 km of coastline, the longest in the Mediterranean and eleventh longest in the world. No part of the mainland is more than about 137 km from the sea, and Mount Olympus reaches 2,917 m.

## Netherlands

About a quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level and roughly a fifth of its present land area has been reclaimed from sea, lake and marsh. Flevoland, a province of some 1,400 km², was drained from the Zuiderzee in the 20th century and is the largest artificial island in the world. The lowest point, in Zuidplaspolder, is about 6.8 m below sea level.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is Greece bigger than Netherlands?

Greece is larger — 131,957 km² against 41,543 km².

### Which has more people, Greece or Netherlands?

Netherlands, with 18,087,633 against 10,413,962.

### What is the time difference between Greece and Netherlands?

Greece is UTC+02:00 and Netherlands is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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- [Netherlands](https://atoneplace.net/country/netherlands/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]