A little bit about the two countries!

I thought that a brief comparison between the two countries will help build a picture of the cultures in Jordan and Greece. CIA finds it useful, they even put together a website called CIA World Factbook. The website contains information about countries in the world. I took the liberty off choosing some categories about Jordan and Greece. I hope this will give an insight and build a picture of the two countries and current status of Jordanian and Greek people:

	Jordan	Greece
Geography
Area	total: 92,300 sq km (World Rank: No.119)	total: 131,940 sq km (World Rank: No.104)
Coastline (Sea)	26 km	13,676 km
People
Population	6,053,193 (July 2007 est.)	10,706,290 (July 2007 est.)
Population growth rate	2.412% (2007 est.)	0.163% (2007 est.)
Religion	Sunni Muslim 92%, Christian 6% (Majority Greek Orthodox), other 2% (several small Shi'a Muslim and Druze populations) (2001 est.)	Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
Languages	Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and middle classes	Greek 99% (official), other 1% (includes English and French)
Government
Government type	constitutional monarchy	parliamentary republic
Independence	Independence Day, 25 May (1946)	1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
Economy
GDP - per capita (PPP)	$4,700 (2007 est.)	$30,500 (2007 est.)
Unemployment rate	13.5% official rate; unofficial rate is approximately 30% (2007 est.)	8.4% (2007 est.)
Debt – external	$7.483 billion (31 December 2007 est.)	$371.5 billion (30 June 2007)
Currency	Jordanian Dinar (JOD = 0.709USD)	Euro (EUR)
Military
Manpower fit for military service	males age 17-49: 1,348,076 females age 17-49: 1,158,011 (2005 est.)	males age 18-49: 2,018,557 females age 18-49: 2,000,650 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP	8.6% (2006)	4.3% (2005 est.)