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Country
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Greece | 
Croatia |
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Leader
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President: Karolos Papoulias
|
President: Ivo Josipovic Prime minister : Zoran Milanovic
|
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Population
|
10,767,827
| 4,480,043
|
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Life Expectancy
|
80.050 years
| 75.990 years
|
|
Capital City
|
Athens
| Zagreb
|
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Largest city
|
| Athens (population: 729,137) | Zagreb - Centar (population: 800,000) |
|
Human Development Index
|
0.947
| 0.862
|
| GDP per capita |
$26,600 US
| $18,400 US
|
|
Literacy Rate
|
96%
| 98.1%
|
|
Corruption Perception Index
|
4.7
| 4.4
|
|
Percentage of Women in Parliament
|
14.7%
| 20.9%
|
| Wealthiest Citizens |
Spiro Latsis & family ($3.8bn US)
| NA
|
| Unemployment Rate |
17.300%
| 17.700%
|
|
Death Penalty
|
Abolished
| Abolished
|
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Political System
|
parliamentary republic
| presidential/parliamentary democracy
|
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Independence date
|
1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
| 25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)
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| Religions |
Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
| Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001 census)
|
| Languages |
Greek 99% (official), other 1% (includes English and French)
| Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census)
|
| Exports |
food and beverages, manufactured goods, petroleum products, chemicals, textiles
| transport equipment, machinery, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels
|
| External Debt |
$583,300,000,000 $
| $66,300,000,000 US
|
| Exchange Rate |
euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.6734 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004)
| kuna (HRK) per US dollar - 4.98 (2008 est.), 5.3735 (2007), 5.8625 (2006), 5.9473 (2005), 6.0358 (2004)
|
| Military Budget as percentage of GDP |
4.300%
| 2.390%
|
| Beijing Olympics Medal Count |
4
| 5
|
| Location |
Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey
| Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia
|
| Area |
131,957 km sq
| 56,594 km sq
|
| Coastline |
13,676 km
| 5,835 km
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| Climate |
temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers
| Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast
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