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peninsula. It occupies an area of 11,336 km (4,377 sq mi) and its population is, according to the 2011 census, at 679,796 inhabitants. The capital of the Western Greece is
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regions, it is supervised by the Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands based at
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The region has shrunk by 36,447 people between 2011 and 2021, experiencing a population loss of 5.4%.
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The region of Western Greece was established in the 1987 administrative reform. With the 2010
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The region has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, typical of a
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in Peloponnese, which are further subdivided into 19
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Index

West Greece
Administrative region
Official logo of Western Greece
Location of Western Greece
38°12′N 21°24′E / 38.2°N 21.4°E / 38.2; 21.4
Greece
Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian
Patras
Regional units
Achaea
Aetolia-Acarnania
Elis
Nektarios Farmakis
el
New Democracy
Time zone
UTC+2
EET
DST
UTC+3
EEST
ISO 3166 code
HDI
8th of 13
www.pde.gov.gr
Greek
romanized
[periˈferiaðitiˈciseˈlaðas]
administrative regions of Greece
continental Greece

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