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Greece > General information

Country codes

ISO3:	GRC	ISO2:	GR
UN:	300	GAUL:	97
UNDP:	GRE	FAOSTAT:	84

Key statistics

Country area: 13196 (1000 Ha)
Source: FAOSTAT. Official data, 2009.

Land area: 12890 (1000 Ha)
Source: FAOSTAT. Estimated, 2009.

Agricultural area: 8199 (1000 Ha)
Source: FAOSTAT. Estimated, 2009.

Population: 11161 (1000)
Source: FAOSTAT. Estimated, 2009.

GDP: 329924 (millions of US dollars)
Source: World Bank. Estimated, 2009.

Human development index: 0.855
Source: UNDP - HDRO. Calculated, 2010.

Maps

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Thematic profiles and systems:

FAO Projects in the country - from the Field Programme Management Information System (FPMIS). The content is coordinated by the Technical Cooperation Department of FAO.

Country Profiles and International Human Development Indicators - Human Development Report Office (HDRO) – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

News:

09/11/2011 - Nibbles: Tarwi, Pests, Planthoppers, Subsidies, Cereal breeding, EU legislation, [Source: Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog]

27/07/2011 - Pakistan floods - a year later [Source: FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific]

31/07/2010 - I’m just wild about saffron [Source: Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog]

12/05/2010 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS-The Fourth Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2010) [Source: News from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

14/10/2009 - NKOS 2009: presentations available online [Source: News from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

26/01/2009 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment 3rd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'09) Milan, Italy, September 30 - October 2, 2009 [Source: News from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

05/11/2007 - New publication: 'Proposed Architecture and Workflow for Managing and Sharing Distributed Information on Organizations Using a Central Registry File' [Source: GFAR News]

19/09/2007 - New regulations for Mediterranean fishing take force [Source: FAO Fisheries News RSS Feed]

Events:

29/09/2011 - 03/10/2011 - International Conference on Integrated Information (ICININFO-2011) [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

12/06/2011 - 16/06/2011 - Third International Workshop On Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM 2011) [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

29/05/2011 - 02/06/2011 - 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

24/05/2011 - 27/05/2011 - QQML2011-3rd International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

03/10/2010 - 08/10/2010 - DL.org Autumn School on Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

16/09/2010 - 18/09/2010 - Young Researchers Summer School on 'Innovative Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment' [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

19/09/2008 - 19/09/2008 - Workshop on Learning Technology Standards for Agriculture and Rural Development (AgroLT 2008), September 19, 2008 [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

24/04/2008 - 15/06/2008 - Agricultural Learning Repositories E-Conference (May 2008) [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

11/10/2007 - 12/10/2007 - Special Session on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics : 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'07), Greece [Source: Events from Agricultural Information Management Standards Web site]

Land border countries:

Albania | Bulgaria | The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | Turkey

Geographic and Economic groups:

European Union | Europe | southern Europe

Group members of European Union

Group members of Europe

Group members of southern Europe