Greece
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- GR
- ISO alpha-3
- GRC
- ISO numeric
- 300
- FIPS 10-4
- GR
- GeoNames ID
- 390903
Key facts
- Capital
- Athens
- Area
- 131,940 km²
- Population
- 10,727,668
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Calling code
- +30
- Top-level domain
- .gr
- Official languages
- el-GR,en,fr
Continent
- Name
- Europe
- Code
- EU
- In this dataset
- 54 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 39
- Longitude
- 22
- Min latitude
- 34.81500885600008
- Min longitude
- 19.626475457000083
- Max latitude
- 41.750475973000064
- Max longitude
- 28.239756707000083
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/GR?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 131940,
"capital": "Athens",
"continent_code": "EU",
"currency_code": "EUR",
"iso3_code": "GRC",
"iso_code": "GR",
"name": "Greece",
"population": 10727668
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/GR/regions/v1/cities?country=GR/v1/postal-codes?country=GR/v1/timezones?country=GR
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- اليونان
- Chinese
- 希腊
- English
- Greece
- French
- Grèce
- German
- Griechenland
- Hindi
- यूनान
- Italian
- Grecia
- Japanese
- ギリシャ
- Korean
- 그리스
- Portuguese
- Grécia
- Russian
- Греция
- Spanish
- Grecia
- Total language variants
- 152
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Europe/Athens | UTC+02:00 | UTC+03:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ### ##
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Attica
- Central Macedonia
- Thessaly
- Western Greece
- Crete
- Central Greece
- Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
- Peloponnese
- South Aegean
- Epirus
- Western Macedonia
- Ionian Islands
- North Aegean
- Mount Athos
14 of 14 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Athens | 664,046 |
| Thessaloníki | 317,778 |
| Pátra | 168,034 |
| Piraeus | 163,688 |
| Lárisa | 146,926 |
| Peristéri | 139,981 |
| Irákleion | 137,154 |
| Kallithéa | 100,641 |
| Acharnés | 99,346 |
| Kalamariá | 91,518 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 15,558
- First-level regions
- 14
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 152
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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