Vassiliki Thanou, president of Greece’s supreme court, has sworn in as head of a caretaker government that will lead the heavily indebted nation until election, which is expected to take place on 20 September. President Prokopis Pavlopoulos​ appointed Ms Thanou, 65, as the country’s first female prime minister. Giorgos Houliarakis, an academic who was part of Greece’s negotiating team during the talks with its creditors, becomes finance minister, and the veteran diplomat Petros Moliviatis becomes foreign minister.

Outgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had resigned from the office after members of his radical-left Syriza party had rebelled against his government over the issue of austerity measures demanded by the nation’s creditors.

Facts about Greece

• The official name of Greece is the Hellenic Republic.
• The capital and largest city in Greece is Athens.
• Greece has more archaeological museums than any other country in the world.
• No one in Greece can choose to not vote. Voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.
• Greece has zero navigable rivers because of the mountainous terrain. Nearly 80% of Greece is mountainous.
• Greece’s currency, the drachma, was 2,650 years old and Europe’s oldest currency. The drachma was replaced with the Euro in 2002.
• Greece missed a critical debt payment of 1.5 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in late June 2015.