About Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres (15.04 square miles). Athens joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2016.
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Things to see nearby
- Athens metropolitan area
- Omonia metro station
- Omonoia Square
- Achaemenid destruction of Athens
- Omonoia, Athens
- STASY
- AthensโPiraeus Electric Railways
- National Theatre of Greece
- Kotzia Square
- Sofokleous Street
- National Bank of Greece
- German Archaeological Institute at Athens
- Council of State (Greece)
- Athinas Street