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.