Afantou
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Afantou () is a village and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rhodes, of which it is a municipal unit. It is situated on the east coast of Rhodes just south of the resort town Faliraki. From a total population of 7,940 (2021 census), 6,936 reside in Afantou town. The only other settlements are the village of Archipoli and the resort Kolympia.
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Place details
- Locality
- Αφάντου
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Νοτίου Αιγαίου
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 5,562
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Afantou
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Αφάντου
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Afandou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within Rhodes
- Greek Dimos.periph
- South Aegean
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Rhodes
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Rhodes
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 7940
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 46.1
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 7291
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Rodos Municipality
- Population
- 2416
- Area
- 46.1
- Image
- Afandou Kirche.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2241
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- twinned administrative body
- Gummersbach
- located in/on physical feature
- Rhodes
- Commons category
- Afandou
- postal code
- 85103
- native label
- Αφάντου
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Afantou () is a village and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Rhodes, of which it is a municipal unit. It is situated on the east coast of Rhodes just south of the resort town Faliraki. From a total population of 7,940 (2021 census), 6,936 reside in Afantou town. The only other settlements are the village of Archipoli and the resort Kolympia.
left|thumbnail|Afantou beach, one of the longest beaches on the island The municipal unit also hosts the only golf course of the island, the Afantou-Golf, which is next to one of the longest beaches on the island. The municipal unit has a land area of . In 1996, the Music School of Rhodes (Greece) was transferred from Therme to Afantou due to housing problems for the school whilst it was situated in Therme.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afantou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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