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Paranesti municipality

41°16′N 24°30′E / 41.267°N 24.500°E / 41.267; 24.500 Paranesti (Template:Lang-el) is a municipality in the Rhodope Mountains of northeastern Drama Prefecture, Greece. Population 1,646 (2001). The municipality has a land area of 788.394 km² (304.4 sq mi) and is the second-largest in all of Greece (behind Kato Nevrokopi in the northwest corner of the same prefecture). It also has the third-lowest population density of all Greek municipalities/communities (behind Gramos and Sidironero) at 2.09 inhabitants / km². The largest villages are Paranésti (the municipal seat, pop. 619), Mesochório (228), Káto Thólos (163), Χágnanton (117), and Prasináda (100). The municipality is divided into three municipal districts. Its municipal district of Sílis in the extreme northeast, which includes the village of Prasináda, is the largest municipal district in Greece, with a land area of 577.171 km² and a population of only 162 inhabitants. Its resulting population density of 0.281 inhabitants/km² is the third lowest of any municipal district in Greece. Incredibly, it trails two municipal districts which had officially no population at the 2001 census: Koumariá District in Paliokastro, Trikala and Kardía District in Ptolemaida, Kozani.

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