GEOGRAPHY

Greece is located in the Mediterranean surrounded by three seas: the Aegean on the east, the Ionian on the west, and the Mediterranean on the south. The north is the only area that has a land frontier. The total land mass of Greece is only 131,975 sq. km. (50,926 sq. miles) and one fifth of that land area, 25,166 sq. km. (9,717 sq. miles), is accounted for by the islands. There are three broad physical regions that Greece is divided into: the mainland, the Peloponnesos, and the islands. The entire nation of Greece is subdivided into ten main geographic regions: Thrace, Macedonia, the Ionian Islands, Epirus, Thessaly, Central Greece with Euboea, greater Athens, Peloponnesos, the Aegean Islands, and Crete.