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title: "Greece vs Turkey — area, population, currency"
description: "Greece is 131,957 km² with 10,413,962 people; Turkey is 783,562 km² with 85,878,556. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/greece-vs-turkey/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Greece vs Turkey

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

131,957 km² vs 783,562 km² · 10,413,962 vs 85,878,556

Turkey is 5.9 times larger than Greece — 783,562 against 131,957 km². Turkey is 8.2 times more populous than Greece — 85,878,556 against 10,413,962 people.

## Side by side

|  | Greece | Turkey |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Athens | Ankara |
| Area | 131,957 km² | 783,562 km² |
| Population | 10,413,962 (2025) | 85,878,556 (2025) |
| Density | 78.9 /km² | 109.6 /km² |
| Currency | Euro (EUR) | Turkish lira (TRY) |
| Official languages | Greek | Turkish |
| Time zones | UTC+02:00 | UTC+03:00 |
| Calling code | +30 | +90 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Europe | Asia |
| ISO codes | GR / GRC | TR / TUR |

## Population density

Turkey is 1.4 times more densely populated than Greece — 110 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.

## Practical differences

- Different currencies: the Euro and the Turkish lira.
- Different continents — Europe and Asia.

## 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.

## Turkey

Istanbul is the only large city built on two continents, split by the Bosphorus. Cappadocia's fairy chimneys are eroded volcanic tuff, and the underground city at Derinkuyu goes down about 85 m over eighteen levels. Pamukkale's white terraces are travertine deposited by hot calcium-rich springs.

> 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 Turkey?

Turkey is larger — 783,562 km² against 131,957 km².

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

Turkey, with 85,878,556 against 10,413,962.

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

Greece is UTC+02:00 and Turkey is UTC+03:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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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]