{"population":10482487,"blurb":{"text":"Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country of 10 million people on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. With nine regions and thousands of islands, it has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean. The Ionian Sea is west of the mainland, Albania northwest, and North Macedonia and Bulgaria north. Turkey is east both by land and the Aegean Sea. The capital, Athens, is the largest Greek city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece"},"vexillology":{"text":"The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the Blue-and-White or the Cyan-and-White, is officially recognised by Greece as one of its national symbols and has 9 horizontal stripes of alternating blue and white. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolises Christianity. The blazon of the flag is azure, four bars argent; on a canton of the field a Greek cross throughout of the second. The shade of blue used in the flag has varied throughout its history, from light blue to dark blue, the latter being increasingly used since the late 1960s. It was officially adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus on 13 January 1822.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Greece"},"flagDesign":{"text":"In 1978, the sea flag was adopted as the sole national flag, with a 2:3 ratio.\n\nThe use of the Greek flag is regulated by Law 851.\n\nThe Government of Greece has never specified exactly which shade of blue should be used for the flag, and as such flags with many varying shades exist.\n\nThe National Flag of Greece is cyan and white, it is made up of nine (9) stripes equal in width, of which five (5) are cyan and four (4) are white so that the upper and lower stripes are cyan and the others in between are white.\n\nBecause of the use of the word \"cyan\" (Greek: κυανός, kyanós), which can also mean \"blue\" in Greek, the exact shade of blue remains ambiguous. Although it implies the use of a light shade of blue, such as on the flag of the United Nations, the colours of the Greek flag tend to be a relatively dark blue, especially since the Regime of the Colonels (though during the reign of Otto I a very light shade of cyan was commonly used). Consequently, the shade of blue is largely left to the flagmakers to decide.\n\nIn a 2010 document, the specific shade of blue used in the coat of arms of Greece was given as Pantone 280 U/C/M or CMYK 100/70/0/20. Though web colors specifications are not…","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Greece"},"photos":["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Academy_of_Athens_by_ArmAg_%282%29.jpg/500px-Academy_of_Athens_by_ArmAg_%282%29.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Alexander_and_Bucephalus_-_Battle_of_Issus_mosaic_-_Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale_-_Naples_BW.jpg/500px-Alexander_and_Bucephalus_-_Battle_of_Issus_mosaic_-_Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale_-_Naples_BW.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Athen_Odeon_Herodes_Atticus_BW_2017-10-09_13-12-44.jpg/500px-Athen_Odeon_Herodes_Atticus_BW_2017-10-09_13-12-44.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Blue-dome-Santorini.JPG/500px-Blue-dome-Santorini.JPG"]}