STRANGE FACTS FOR GREECE
Did you know that.....
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On
average, about 16.5 million tourists come every year in Greece. This means that
visitors outnumber the local population ... of about 10 million.
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About
7 % of all the marble produced in the world comes from Greece.
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Greece
is the third country in the world in olive production. Some olive trees planted
in 13th century still produce fruit.
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Greece
is the first country in the world to trade ... sponges.
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80
% of its territory is mountainous. The country doesn’t have any navigable river,
because of this particular geomorphology.
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Twelve
million people in the world speak Greek. Greek language spoken here about 3,000
years, which makes it one of the oldest languages in the world.
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The
islands of Greece reaching 2,000 in number, but only 170 of them are inhabited.
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The
population of Athens in 1834 was 10,000. Once chosen as the capital of the new
Greek state’s population grew at 3 plus million, or approximately 40 % of the
Greek population.
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Athens
has been continuously inhabited for 7,000 years. This makes it one of the
oldest cities in Europe.
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On
average, we enjoy 250 days of sunshine per year. This corresponds to 3,000
hours of warm sun annually.
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Ships
with Greek flag represent 70 % of the total merchant fleet in Europe. Domestic
law requires 75 % of the crew of the ship to have Greek citizenship.
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Greece
has more museums than any other country in the world - which of course is not
particularly surprising.
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No
part of Greece is further from the sea than 137 km. The coastline of the
country is the tenth longest in the world.