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GREECE. 



t Not including the Chatham Islands, Norfolk Island, and the islands of Auckland, Lord Howe, Caroline, Starbuck, Mai- 

 den, and Fanning. The natives of Australia, estimated at 55,000, and the Maoris of New Zealand, numbering 44,000, are no 

 included. 



$ Not including Tristan da Cunha. New Amsterdam, and St. Paul, nor the annexed Niger districts, the occupied dis- 

 tnct^m the Eed Sea coast, and the protectorates established on the southeast coast, extending from Port Elizabeth to 



GREECE, a kingdom in southeastern Europe. 

 The legislative authority resides in a single 

 Chamber. The deputies are elected by uni- 

 versal suffrage for four years. Voting is by 

 ballot. Deputies are paid. The reigning King 

 is Georgios I, son of the King of Denmark, 

 born Dec. 24, 1845, and elected King of the 

 Hellenes in 1863, after the expulsion of Otto. 



Area and Population. The extent of the king- 

 dom, including 5,170 square miles in Thessaiy, 

 ceded by Turkey in 1881, is 25,111 squa: 

 miles; the number of inhabitants, accordin 

 to the latest enumeration, 1,979,453. The po{ 

 ulation increased between 1870 and 1879 



the rate of 1-87 per cent, per annum 



The 



number of births in 1882 was 43,157; of deaths, 



