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Greece Population:
11,000,000

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Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in southern Europe on the tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, the F.Y. Republic of Macedonia, and Albania to the north; and with Turkey to the east. The waters of the Aegean Sea border Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Sea to the west and south. Regarded by many as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, Greece has a long and rich history during which its culture has proven especially influential in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

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Living in Greece

According to a January 2003 study, Greece had a population of 11,000,000 (stable non immigrant). Of those, 58.8% lived in urban areas, whereas only 28.4% lived in rural areas. The population of the two largest cities in Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, reached almost 5 million in Athens while in Thessaloniki it was slightly over the 1 million. Although the overall population continues to grow, Greece may be facing a serious demographic problem. In 2002 the number of deaths surpassed the number of births for the first time in Greece's modern history.

Over one million immigrants live in Greece today, of which 65% have come from Albania. Large-scale Albanian migration to Greece since the fall of Communism in Albania has become a source of controversy in Greece, exacerbated by the lack of a coherent government policy on immigration. A minority of Albanians are regularly implicated in highly publicised criminal activities and, as a result, Albanians in general are often stigmatised and can face discrimination and exploitation in Greece. Nonetheless, most Greeks nowadays recognise their contribution to the Greek economy. Several prominent Greek sportsmen immigrated to Greece as ethnic Greeks from Albania and Georgia in the 1990s, including legendary weightlifters Pyrros Dimas and Kakhi Kakhiashvili. Smaller numbers of immigrants came from Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania. The exact number remains unknown, since the majority live illegally in Greece.

Greece has traditionally had various, if not numerous, linguistic and cultural minorities. A non-comprehensive list of these would include Pomaks, various Roma groups, Turkic-speakers. A number of religious minorities exist, with Muslims forming the largest group.

Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as peripheries, which subdivide further into the 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos):

Attica:
Attica
Central Greece:
Boeotia
Euboea
Evrytania
Phocis
Phthiotis
Central Macedonia
Chalcidice
Imathia
Kilkis
Pella
Pieria
Serres
Thessaloniki
Crete
Chania
Heraklion
Lasithi
Rethymno
East Macedonia and Thrace
Drama
Evros
Kavala
Rhodope
Xanthi
Epirus
Arta
Ioannina
Preveza
Thesprotia
Ionian Islands
Corfu
Kefalonia
Lefkada
Zakynthos
North Aegean
Chios
Lesbos
Samos
Peloponnese
Arcadia
Argolis
Corinthia
Laconia
Messinia
South Aegean
Cyclades
Dodecanese
Thessaly
Karditsa
Larissa
Magnesia
Trikala
West Greece
Achaea
Aetolia-Acarnania
Elis
West Macedonia
Florina
Grevena
Kastoria
Kozani

Beyond these one autonomous region exists: Mount Athos (Agio Oros - Holy Mountain), a monastic state under Greek sovereignty.

The 51 nomoi subdivide into 147 eparchies (singular eparchia), which contain 1,033 municipalities and communities: 900 urban municipalities (demoi) and 133 rural communities (koinotetes). Before 1999, Greece's local government structure featured 5,775 local authorities: 457 demoi and 5,318 koinotetes, subdivided into 12,817 localities (oikosmoi).

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