Greece, located in Southeast Europe, is formally known as the Hellenic Republic. Greece, which is situated at the southernmost point of the Balkan peninsula, borders North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, Albania to the northwest, and Turkey to the east. The continent is bordered to the east by the Aegean Sea, to the west by the Ionian Sea, and to the south by the Mediterranean Sea and the Sea of Crete. Greece boasts thousands of islands along its longest coastline in the Mediterranean. The nation, home to around 10.4 million people, is divided into nine conventional geographic areas. The largest city and capital of the country is Athens.