Greece is a country in eastern Southern
Europe on the Balkan peninsula, with extensive
coastlines and islands in the Aegean, Ionian,
and Mediterranean Seas. It shares borders
in the north with Albania, the FYROM, Bulgaria,
and Turkey. It has an ancient culture that
has had a significant influence on the arts,
language, philosophy, politics, and sports
of western society, including the genres
of comedy and drama, western alphabets,
Platonic ideals and the Socratic method,
democracies and republics, and the Olympics.
Furthermore it's a geographically appealing
place to visit, with a mountainous mainland
and idyllic island beaches.