Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and
the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey

39 00 N, 22 00 E

Europe

total: 131,940 sq km
land: 130,800 sq km
water: 1,140 sq km

slightly smaller than Alabama

total: 1,210 km
border countries: Albania 282 km, Bulgaria 494 km, Turkey 206 km, The
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 228 km

13,676 km

continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
territorial sea: 6 nm

temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers

mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as
peninsulas or chains of islands

lowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m
highest point: Mount Olympus 2,917 m

bauxite, lignite, magnesite, petroleum, marble,
hydropower

arable land: 19%
permanent crops: 8%
permanent pastures: 41%
forests and woodland: 20%
other: 12% (1993 est.)

13,140 sq km (1993 est.)

severe earthquakes

air pollution; water pollution

party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air
Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic
Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered
Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea,
Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship
Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants,
Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Climate Change-Kyoto
Protocol

strategic location dominating the Aegean Sea and
southern approach to Turkish Straits; a peninsular country, possessing
an archipelago of about 2,000 islands