- In Greece all citizens 18 or older are required by law to vote
- Approximately 98% of the people in Greece are ethnic Greeks
- An old Greek legend says that when God created the world, he sifted all the soil onto the earth through a strainer. After every country had good soil, he tossed the stones left in the strainer over his shoulder and created Greece
- Inhabited for more than 7,000 years, Athens is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, political science, Western literature, historiography, major mathematical principles, and Western theories of tragedy and comedy
- Greek men must serve from one year to 18 months in any branch of the armed forces
- As many as 100,000 birds from northern Europe and Asia spend their winters in Greece’s wetlands
- Greek ships make up 70% of the European Union’s total merchant fleet
- In Greece it is considered an insult to show the palm of the hand with the fingers extended – wave with a closed hand
