page_title: Outline of Greece
section_title: Natural geographic features of Greece
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of Greece / Geography of Greece / Environment of Greece / Natural geographic features of Greece
caption_attribution_description: Thessaloniki waterfront - Greece
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Greece:
  Greece – sovereign country located on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe. Greece borders Albania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the Eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of islands.
  Greece lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia and Africa. It is heir to the heritages of ancient Greece, the Roman and Byzantine Empires, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule. Greece is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama including both tragedy and comedy.
  Greece is a developed country, a member of the European Union since 1981, a member of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union since 2001, NATO since 1952, the OECD since 1961, the WEU since 1995 and ESA since 2005.
context_section_description: Caves in Greece
  Islands of Greece
  Lakes of Greece
  Mountains of Greece
  Volcanoes in Greece
  Rivers of Greece
  List of World Heritage Sites in Greece
caption: View of Thessaloniki
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