Athens
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, 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.
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When Greece put a tax on swimming pools in 2008, only 324 Athenians admitted to owning one, but a Google Earth search revealed the real number was 16,974.
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In 2006 an Athens court ruled that pagan worship was allowed; before that, essentially only Orthodox Christianity and one or two other faiths were permitted.
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At the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, the 1200m swimming event took competitors 1200 metres out to sea and left them to swim back to shore.
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Coordinates: 37.9842, 23.7281