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title: "Greece — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Greece: capital Athens, area 131,957 km², population 10,413,962 (2025), currency Euro. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/greece/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Greece

**Greece: Capital Athens**

131,957 km² · 10,413,962 people (2025) · Euro

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.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Athens
- **Area:** 131,957 km² — 50,949 sq mi
- **Population:** 10,413,962 (2025)
- **Density:** 78.9 people per km²
- **Currency:** Euro (EUR, €)
- **Official language:** Greek
- **Time zone:** UTC+02:00
- **Calling code:** +30
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** GR · GRC
- **Continent:** Europe

## How it compares

- **By area:** 96 of 200
- **By population:** 94 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nepal | 147,181 | 29,618,118 |
| Tajikistan | 144,100 | 10,786,734 |
| Greece ← | 131,957 | 10,413,962 |
| Nicaragua | 130,370 | 7,007,502 |
| North Korea | 120,538 | 26,571,036 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Greece?

Athens

### What currency does Greece use?

The Euro (EUR).

### How big is Greece?

131,957 km², or 50,949 square miles — 96 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Greece drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Nepal](https://atoneplace.net/country/nepal/)
- [Tajikistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/tajikistan/)
- [Nicaragua](https://atoneplace.net/country/nicaragua/)
- [North Korea](https://atoneplace.net/country/north-korea/)
- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
- [Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country/germany/)
- [United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-kingdom/)
- [France](https://atoneplace.net/country/france/)
- [Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country/italy/)
- [Spain](https://atoneplace.net/country/spain/)
- [Ukraine](https://atoneplace.net/country/ukraine/)
- [Poland](https://atoneplace.net/country/poland/)

## 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]