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Four fifths of Greece consist of mountains or hills, making the country one of the most mountainous in Europe. Western Greece has a number of lakes and wetlands and it is dominated by the Pindus mountain range. Pindus has a maximum elevation of 2,636 meters (8,648 ft). Mount Olympus is the tallest mountain in the country. Mytikas in Olympus range has a height of 2,919 meters (9,570 ft) at its tallest peak. Approximately 27.9% of the Greece is covered by forests. Though small, Greece has the 9th longest coastline in the world. It has more than 15,000 kilometers (9,300 mi) of coastline and a land boundary of 1,160 kilometers (721 mi). Hardly anyone lives further than 60 km from the sea. There are around 3,000 Islands, including Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Euboea, the Dodecanese and the Cycladic groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian Sea islands.
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Sky in the Saronic Gulf colored red by the forest fires of August 2007
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Landscape on Poros
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Small beach on Poros
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Dramatic sky in the Saronic Gulf
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View over the Saronic Gulf from Poros
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Saronic Gulf colored by nearby forest fires
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Landscape on Hydra
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The Saronic Gulf at dusk
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View over mountains on Hydra