Interesting facts about Greece

Greece is an old and beautiful country on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The population of Greece is more than 11 million people.
Approximately 16.5 million people visit Greece per year.

Greece in the world takes third place in the world. It is also interesting that the Greeks have been grown with olive trees since ancient times. Some of them were planted in the 13th century and are still a crop.
80% of the total area occupies mountains.
The most excise mountain range of Greece is Olympus (2917 m). The two highest peaks of Olymps - Mittikas and Stephanie (2911 m).
Mount Olympus was of particular importance in ancient Greek mythology. It was believed that the gods lived in Olympus, whose main thing Zeus was.
More than 12 million people in the world talk about greenery. Approximately 95% live in their homeland, 3% in Cyprus and Italy, the rest in Albania, Turkey, the United States and other countries. For example, the Greeks also live in Armenia, there is a village in Stepanavan in the Stepanavan region, where many Greeks still live. This is called Yaghda.
Thousands of words in each language appeared from Greek. One of the languages equipped with a Greek word is English.
The largest island in Greece Crete is 3189 square meters. km.
Athens is one from the Greek capital, the oldest cities in Europe. It is also considered the birthplace of democracy, philosophy, Olympic Games, political science, oriental literature, historiography, basic mathematical principles, tragedy and comedy.
The Olympic Games called in ancient Greece, during which all the wars ceased. One of the Armenian kings Varasdat was the champion of the old Olympic Games.