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GREECE,

Population,

The "kingdom off Greece, inclusive of the Ionian Islands, .-aianexed in 1864, has the following area and population, according to the census of 1861 : —

Administrative Divisions

Area Square miles

Population, 1661

NOMARCHIES :

Attica and Boeotia ., .

' 116,024

Eubcea . - . . ..'

72,368

Phthiotis and Phocis . ...

102,291

Acarnania and iEtolia ....

109,392

Argolis and Corinth

18,900

138,249

Achaia and Elis .....

118,719

Arcadia ......

96,546

Messenia ......

(117,181

Laconia . . . . .

.112,910

Cyclades .. . .. <. .. ..*5

. 118,130

IoNIvLN Isii^NDS :—

Corfu .

•227

7©,T24

Cephalonia . . ....

311

73,571

Zante .. .

161

'39,693

Santa Maura

a 56

20,797

Ithaca . . . . .

44

11,940

Cerigo . . . .

116

14,564

Paxo • .

7 Total . . . .......

26

5.009

19,941

1,332,508

The above table shows an average density of population of GG per square mile, or considerably less than that of European Turkey. Previous to the year 1864, there were only 58 inhabitants to the square mile, but the annexation of the Ionian Islands, with a dense population — 226 per square mile — served to raise the figure, con- tributing far more to the population than to the area of the kingdom.

The census.- of 1861 exhibited the existence, both in Greeoe and in the Ionian Islands, of a considerably larger male than female population, the former outnumbering the latter by 54,035 in- dividuals. According to the census tables, the professions and pursuits of the grown-up. .male population were, in Greece proper : —

4.27 per cent, persons of independent means ; 13-87 ,, „ tradesmen and shopkeepers ;

49-37 8 43

18-66 .5-40

cultivators and shepherds ; mercantile men ; professional men and students.;

domestic servants.