Map of Greece

Greece is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 39.0° N, 22.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Turkey — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Greece is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Greece shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Greece covers about 131,990 km² (50,962 sq mi). That makes it the 95th-largest country in the world by area and the 14th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 31 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,400,720, the 92nd-largest in the world and the 15th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 1.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Greece has an average population density of about 79 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 15th by population and 14th by area.

The seat of government is Athens, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is Greek. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Greece carries the ISO country codes GR and GRC, dials on the international calling code +30 and uses the .gr internet domain.

Greece shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Turkey (capital Ankara, about 85,664,944 people), Bulgaria (capital Sofia, about 6,437,360 people), Albania (capital Tirana, about 2,363,314 people) and North Macedonia (capital Skopje, about 1,822,612 people).

By area, Greece is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 39.0° N, 22.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Greece within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Athens. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Greece lies about 4,329 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Greece keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official language is Greek, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +30 and websites commonly use the .gr internet domain.

In short, Greece is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Athens. Greece has a population of about 10,400,720 and covers around 131,990 km² (50,962 sq mi), ranking it 92nd in the world by population and 95th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Greece.

The flag of Greece is composed of nine equal horizontal bands of blue alternating with white. A blue square bearing a white cross is superimposed in the canton.

The flag of Greece is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.