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Some useful facts and figures about Florina city.
Elevation: 663 m 
Municipal population: 19985 (2011) 
Average snow days: 27.2 (year) 
Record low (Celcius): -29 
Record high (Celcius): 40.8 

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Name
The city's original Byzantine name, 围位苇蟻喂谓慰谓 (Chl茅rinon, "full of green vegetation"), derives from the Greek word 蠂位蠅蟻蠈蟼 (chl艒r贸s, "fresh" or "green vegetation"). The name was sometimes Latinized as Florinon (from the Latin flora, "vegetation") in the later Byzantine period, and in early Ottoman documents the forms Chlerina and Florina are both used, with the latter becoming standard after the 17th century. The form with [f] (蠁位蠅蟻蠈蟼) is a local dialect form of 蠂位蠅蟻蠈蟼 in Greek. The Slavic name for the city is Lerin (袥械褉懈薪), which is a borrowing of the Byzantine Greek name, but with the loss of the initial [x] characteristic of the local dialect.

Municipality
The municipality Florina was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that became municipal units:
• Florina
• Kato Kleines
• Meliti
• Perasma

Subdivisions
The municipal unit of Florina is divided into the following communities:
• Alona
• Armenochori
• Florina
• Koryfi
• Mesonisi
• Proti
• Skopia
• Trivouno

Source: Wikipedia