Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A major coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over three million, it is the eighth largest urban area in the European Union. The Municipality of Athens, which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 km2 (15.04 sq mi).
Image: The Acropolis from Mount Lycabettus on October 5, 2019 (cropped)
Image: La façade du Zappéion (Athènes) (30177808993)
Image: 2018 07 25 Monastiraki Square, Athens
Image: The Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens (Metropolis of Athens) in April 2019
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring thousands of islands. The country comprises nine traditional geographic regions, and has a population of nearly 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras.
The entrance of the Treasury of Atreus (13th century BC) in Mycenae
The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, icon of classical Greece
The Antikythera mechanism (c. 100 BC) is considered to be the first known mechanical analog computer (National Archaeological Museum, Athens).
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, built in 161 AD
