![]() ![]() In 1981, Greece joined the European Union, and then it became the 12th member of the European Economic and Monetary Union in 2001. Nearly half of the population lives in the two major cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, after a significant urbanization trend that was observed in the 20th and 21st centuries. They are the only officially recognized minority in Greece and received legal status through the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. ![]() The majority of the Muslim minority is concentrated in the area of northern Greece called Thrace. Muslims comprise 1.3% of the population and the remaining 0.7% includes Catholics, Jews, Old Calendar Orthodox, Jehovah Witnesses, Protestants, and other religions. Over 95% of Greeks are Orthodox Christians. According to the most recent official consensus in 2011, the population was 10,816,286 ( with the vast majority being of Greek descent (98%) and the remainder belonging to other ethnicities.
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