Greece is located at the southeast end of Europe, and is the southern most country of the Balkan Peninsula. It is usually referred to as a southern European country. The peninsula is surrounded by three bodies of water, the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea.
98% of the 10.6 million population of Greece, speak Greek, which is the country's official language. The largest minority language is Macedonian, spoken by 1.8% of the population. Albanian is spoken in the center and the south and Turkish is spoken by Muslim communities around the Aegean, Arumanian, and Bulgarian. None of these minority languages have an official status.