page_title: Geography of Greece
section_title: Extremities of Greece
hierarchical_section_title: Geography of Greece / Physical geography / Extremities of Greece
caption_attribution_description: English: A map showing Greece's cities and main towns.
context_page_description: Greece is a country of the Balkans, in Southeastern Europe, bordered to the north by Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria; to the east by Turkey, and is surrounded to the east by the Aegean Sea, to the south by the Cretan and the Libyan Seas, and to the west by the Ionian Sea which separates Greece from Italy.
  The country consists of a mountainous, peninsular mainland jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea at the southernmost tip of the Balkans, and two smaller peninsulas projecting from it:
  the Chalkidiki and the Peloponnese, which is joined to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth. Greece also has many islands, of various sizes, the largest being Crete, Euboea, Lesvos, Rhodes, Chios, Kefalonia, and Corfu; groups of smaller islands include the Dodecanese and the Cyclades. According to the CIA World Factbook, Greece has 13,676 kilometres of coastline, the largest in the Mediterranean Basin.
  Greece's latitude ranges from 35°N to 42°N and its longitude from 19°E to 28°E. As a result of this and its physical geography, the country has considerable climatic variation.
context_section_description: The extreme points of Greece are 
  North: Ormenio village (41°45′41″ N, 26°13′15″ E)
  South: Gavdos island (34°48′11″ N, 24°07′25″ E)
  East: Strongyli island (36°06′17″ N, 29°38′39″ E)
  West: Othonoi island (39°51′11″ N, 19°22′41″ E)
caption: Greece's cities, main towns, main rivers, islands and selected archaeological sites.
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