Greece Travel HD Videos

May 30, 2015

Greece Travel HD Videos

National name: Elliniki Dimokratia

Languages: Greek 99% (official), English, French

Ethnicity/race: Greek 93%, other 7%; note: numbers represent citizenship, since Greece does not collect data on ethnicity

Religions: Greek Orthodox 98%, Islam 1.3%, other .7%

Literacy rate: 97.3% (2011 est.)

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013) est.): $267.1 billion; per capita $23,600. Real growth rate: –3.8%. Inflation: -0.8%. Unemployment: 27.9%. Arable land: 18.95%. Agriculture: wheat, corn, barley, sugar beets, olives, tomatoes, wine, tobacco, potatoes; beef, dairy products. Labor force: 4.918 million; agriculture 12.4%, industry 22.4%, services 65.1% (2005 est.). Industries:tourism, food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal products; mining, petroleum. Natural resources: lignite, petroleum, iron ore, bauxite, lead, zinc, nickel, magnesite, marble, salt, hydropower potential. Exports: $30.39 billion (2013 est.): food and beverages, manufactured goods, petroleum products, chemicals, textiles. Imports: $50.58 billion (2013 est.): machinery, transport equipment, fuels, chemicals. Major trading partners: Germany, Italy, China, Bulgaria, Turkey, France, Netherlands, Russia, Iraq (2013).

Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 5.461 million (2012); mobile cellular: 13.354 million (2012). Broadcast media: Broadcast media dominated by the private sector; roughly 150 private TV channels, about ten of which broadcast nation-wide; 1 government owned terrestrial TV channel with national coverage; 3 privately owned satellite channels; multi-channel satellite and cable TV services available; upwards of 1,500 radio stations, all of them privately owned; government owned broadcaster has 2 national radio stations (2014). Internet hosts: 3.201 million (2012). Internet users: 4.971 million (2009).

Transportation: Railways: total: 2,548 km (2009). Highways: total: 116,960 km (including 1,091 km of expressways); unpaved: 75,603 km (2010). Waterways: 6 km; note: Corinth Canal (6 km) crosses the Isthmus of Corinth; shortens sea voyage by 325 km (2012). Ports and harbors: Agioitheodoroi, Aspropyrgos, Pachi, Piraeus, Thessaloniki. Airports: 77 (2013).