Greece as you can see on the map of Greece consists of a large mainland, the southernmost point of the Balkans, which united with former mainland Peloponnese, from the Isthmus of Corinth, after the Peloponnese after construction of the Corinth Canal is in fact the island. The country is surrounded by the Ionian Sea, the Aegean Sea and Lybean sea.
The Aegean contains numerous islands, among them Evia, Lesbos, Rhodes, Paros, Naxos and the island complexes in the Cyclades and Dodecanese, while 180 kilometers south coast of Crete dominates, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean.
South of Crete is the island Gavdos, the southernmost island in Greece and also in Europe. The main islands in the Ionian is Corfu, Kefalonia, Lefkada , Ithaca the island of Odysseus and Zakynthos. Greece has 15,021 kilometres of coastline, which is considered extremely high, due to the rich and horizontal territorial division and the strong relief in the region, and the host of numerous islands, which are more than 1500, and is mainly the result of a collision of the African Tectonic plate with the European. It is along the border of around 1,181 kilometers.
Approximately 80% of the territory of Greece is mountainous or hilly. Much of it is dry and rocky, while only 28% of the territory is Agricultural. See bellow a Greece map to see the borders of Greece.
