I'm going on a trip to Greece

So now I’m Greece. I have checked out the museums and they were great. What I noticed about Greece is the number of people that were actually in Athens. I know that Athens is the biggest city in Greece but how do the other areas measure up?

Whenever I like doing a little background research I always us Wikipedia.com for a short brief on any topic. Simply typed in Greece, scrolled down and saw what I was looking for. There was a whole table on the population of Greece right down to every periphery or “state”. The largest periphery was Attica where the capital city is Athens had a total population of 3,761,810 people. The smallest periphery, Mount Athos, had a total population of 2, 262 people. That is how many people went to my high school! Below is the full table of all the peripheries with capital cities and populations, courtesy of Wikipedia.com. Wikipedia’s total estimated population for Greece in 2009 is 11,257,285. The 2001 census had a population of 10,964,020 people.

I wanted to make sure this was correct. So I headed to a library that had books in ENGLISH! I found a reference book called Cities of the World. In the Greece section under population the total population they had was 10.1 million. This was pretty off of the total population I got for Wikipedia’s census population, but I looked at the publication date on the book and it was published in 1993. I think a few more people were born within that time.

I wanted to see how Wikipedia’s census population compared to other resources. I went to kwintissential.co.uk and found that the Wikipedia article matched that census population as in the kwintissential article. This goes to show that Wikipedia isn’t completely unreliable! Yes! Below are my image captures to show the population.

Cia.gov