It may be considered very similar in area to Alabama, but it occupies a water area many times more than that of Alabama"s with 1,140 sq. miles. The land area occupied by Greece is approximately 130,800 sq. miles, including the Greek mainland and all the Greek islands, large and small. The total area of Greece"s land and water area is 131,940 sq. miles.

             The population of Greece compared to the population of America"s is extremely minute with a total population of about 10,662,138, based on a July, 1998 estimate. To give you an estimate of about how many people live in all of the cities, Athens, the capital, contains about 1/10 the population of the whole country of Greece with 882,737 people within its boundaries. A population percentage comparison of Greece is that about 30% of Greece"s total population live in Athens. The metropolitan area of Thessaloniki takes up about 7% of Greece"s population. The physical regions and areas that house the most people are situated around the coastlines and interior plains. The areas that house the least amount of people are on the Aegean Islands and in the mountainous regions. The growth rate of Greece is only 0.43% and the percent of males and females in Greece are as follows: Males- (49%) 5,224,448. Females- (51%) 5,437,690. Greece is among one of the countries with the most homogeneous populations in the Balkans and Europe with 98% Greek and 2% others. "Homogeneous" means of the same or a similar kind or nature.

             Few languages are spoken in Greece. The majority of Greeks speak their official native language - Greek. While very few people speak languages other than Greek, some English and French is also spoken. Because Greek is the official language spoken and the majority of the Greek population speak Greek, that doesn"t mean that English and French aren"t understood, because they are widely understood. The Greek definition for their literacy rate is that all males and females 15 years and over can read and write.