STRANGE FACTS FOR GREECE

Did you know that.....

 

•        On average, about 16.5 million tourists come every year in Greece. This means that visitors outnumber the local population ... of about 10 million.

•        About 7 % of all the marble produced in the world comes from Greece.

•        Greece is the third country in the world in olive production. Some olive trees planted in 13^th century still produce fruit.

•        Greece is the first country in the world to trade ... sponges.

•        80 % of its territory is mountainous. The country doesn’t have any navigable river, because of this particular geomorphology.

•        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.

•        The islands of Greece reaching 2,000 in number, but only 170 of them are inhabited.

•        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.

•        Athens has been continuously inhabited for 7,000 years. This makes it one of the oldest cities in Europe.

•        On average, we enjoy 250 days of sunshine per year. This corresponds to 3,000 hours of warm sun annually.

•        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.

•        Greece has more museums than any other country in the world - which of course is not particularly surprising.

•        No part of Greece is further from the sea than 137 km. The coastline of the country is the tenth longest in the world.