Athens (grc)

Athens

Athens ranks 35th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Amsterdam, Mumbai, and San Francisco. Memorable people born in Athens include Pericles, Phidias, and Demosthenes. Memorable people who died in Athens include Socrates, Epicurus, and Pericles. Athens has been the birth place of many politicians and writers and the death place of many politicians and philosophers. Athens is located in Greece.

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A major 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 three million, it is the eighth largest urban area in the European Union. The Municipality of Athens, which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 km2 (15.04 sq mi). Read more on Wikipedia