Greece has an area of 50,949 square miles and is located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. The area of Greece is approximately the same as England or the U.S. state of Alabama. Greece is located in Southern Europe between Albania and Turkey. The country is bordered to the west by the Ionian Sea, and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the east by the Aegean Sea. Its only land borders are to the North. The people of Greece usually experience mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers.
Greece has three main elements: the sea, mountains, and the lowland. Arms and inlets of the sea go in so deeply that only a small, wedge-shaped portion of the interior mainland is more than fi