world as I saw it: Greece

This book is considered one of the leading books in travel literature in the modern era, as it represents an educational tourism to Greece, as it is located in the south of the Balkan Peninsula, followed by most of the islands of the Aegean Sea, and at the southern end of this sea lies the island of Crete, the largest and most important of the Greek islands, and the River Lower Marza is a natural border between it and Turkey, and the Aegean Sea separates it from Asia Minor. Most of its population lives in the coastal regions and fertile valleys. The surface of Greece is mountainous in general, and its coasts are characterized by many curves, especially in the Morea Peninsula, which in its general shape resembles a hand with outstretched fingers. The long Gulf of Corinth almost separates the Morea Peninsula from the rest of Greece, and there is a narrow isthmus into which the Corinth Canal was cut, connecting the Gulf of Corinth to the Sea. Aegean. In its climate and vegetation, Greece follows the Mediterranean region, and the warmest regions and the most abundant rain are located in the west. Due to the extension of the western mountains from north to south, rainfall is less in the rest of Greece, and the climate of the interior parts of Greece is colder in the winter and has less rain than the climate of the coastal regions. Especially the western ones.