Statistics
Periphery:	West Macedonia
Capital:	Grevena
Area:	2,338 km² Ranked 2nd The peripheries (περιφέρειες) are the subnational subdivisions of Greece. ... West Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece, consisting of the western part of Greek Macedonia. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
Elevation:	Lowest: northern part Highest: Pindus
Inhabitants:	38,481(2001)
Population density:	16.45/km²
ISO 3166-2:	GR-51
FIPS code:
Car designation:	PN (Grevena)
Code for the municipalities:	09xx
Number of municipalities:	8
Number of independent communes:	7
Area/distance code:	11-30-24620 (030-24620) 24920 in the southeastern part
Postal code	51x xx
Name of inhabitants:	sing. -s pl.
2-letter abbreviation/HASC:
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Grevena (Greek: Γρεβενά) is a prefecture in Greece. Its capital is the city of Grevena. Much of the prefecture is mountainous. Grevena is the leastly populated prefecture in Greece. It was recreated in the 1940s out of the old Grevena-Kozani prefecture in which the capital was Kozani. Grevena has no provinces. It is bounded with the prefectures of Ioannina (Epirus) to the west, Kastoria to the northwest, Kozani to the north and east, Larissa to the southeast and Trikala to the south. ISO 3166-2:GR are ISO 3166-2 codes for Greece. ... FIPS could mean Federal Information Processing Standard, publicly announced standards developed by the U.S. Federal government. ... The Greek car license plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate (f. ... This is an alphabetical list by town of dialing codes in Greece. ... Here are list of postal codes in Greece. ... map File links The following pages link to this file: Grevena Categories: GFDL images ... Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos): External link Map Categories: Lists of subnational entities | Prefectures of Greece ... Grevena (Greek: Γρεβενά) is a town in Greece, capital of the Grevena prefecture, one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... Ioannina (Greek: Ιωάννινα) is a prefecture of Greece, part of the north-western periphery of Epirus. ... Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the Ambracian Gulf and the province of West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north. ... Kastoria (Greek: Καστοριά)is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Kozani (Greek: Κοζάνη) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Larissa (Greek: Λάρισα, Lárisa) is a prefecture of Greece, in the periphery of Thessaly. ... Trikala (Greek: Τρίκαλα) is a prefecture in northwestern Thessaly, Greece. ...

The mountains include Lygkio to the west, Chasia to the southwest and the south anf Vourinos to the northeast. The longest river is Aliakmon which flows to its east, the central part and the northern part. The Ali kmon (Greek: Αλιάκμων) is the longest river in Greece, with a total length of 322 km (200 miles). ...

The region's economy relies on farming and agriculture, ecotourism, forest industry and the ski resort of Vasilitsa, which is a popular destination for winter holidays. Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... Ecotourism essentially means ecological tourism, where ecological has both environmental and social connotations. ... A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, an area set aside for hunting). ... A ski area is a place where one goes to participate in the sports of skiing and snowboarding. ...

Transportation

• Greece Interstate 15, S, Cen., N
• Greece Interstate 26, SE
• Via Egnatia (superhighway)/E90, SW, Cen., NE

Via Egnatia Via Egnatia (Greek: Εγνατία Οδός) was a road constructed by the Romans around 146 BC. It was named after Gaius Ignatius, proconsul of Macedonia, who ordered its construction. ...

Municipalities

Grevena (Greek: Γρεβενά) is a town in Greece, capital of the Grevena prefecture, one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Theodoros Ziakas (zakas, zakkas) was a chieftain in northern Greece that was active in the Grevena region uprising against the Turks in 1853. ...

Communities

• See also: Communities of Grevena