Geography of Greece Greece is a country with an interesting and diverse geography in many senses. The location of Greece itself, as well as the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere combine to form the cumulative geography of the country. These geographical categories interact with each other to form Greece as it is. The location, its longitude and latitude, influence the country's climate or its atmosphere. Likewise, the country's relationship with water, the hydrosphere, also affects the climate. This is just one example of how the different categories and characteristics of the geography of a place can influence it.I. LOCATION The country of Greece, also known as the Hellenic Republic, is called Hellas or Ellada by the natives. This Mediterranean country in southeastern Europe is approximately 50,942 square miles and contains approximately 9,000 miles of coastline that includes the country's islands. Although the total number of islands is not concrete due to discrepancies over whether each piece of land surrounded by water qualifies as an island, the number of inhabited islands is 227. Greece has many interesting geographical features, such as its landscape overall mountainous region that makes up 80% of the country, and its highest point, and perhaps most famous geographic feature, is Mount Olympus which reaches 9,570 feet (2,917 meters). The country of Greece varies in absolute position with its northernmost point located at N 41° 44' 33'' and its southernmost point at N 34° 32' 33'' on the island of Cyprus. Cyprus also holds the country's easternmost point at E 34° 38' 3” while its westernmost point is at E 20° 20' 30”. Greece borders the countries of Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Türkiye. Likewise...... half of the paper......storms-in-50-years.htmlMcCoy, J. (2003). Geographic Data: The World Geographic Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). Detroit: Thomson-Gale. Munro, D. M. (1995). The Oxford dictionary of the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reclus, E., Ravenstein, E. G., & Keane, A. H. (2007). An illustrated world gazetteer: The earth and its inhabitants: Asia. New Delhi: Logos Press. Author unknown. Country observation [Map]. (n.d.). Extracted from the Country Watch database. Author unknown. Greece: quick facts. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2014, from http://gogreece.about.com/cs/practicalinfo/a/fastfactsgreece.htm Author unknown. Geography of Greece. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2014, from http://www.worldatlas.com/geography/greecegeography.htm Author unknown. Tectonic synthesis of Greece. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2014, from http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/greece/tectonic_summary.php