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Iasmos Municipality

Iasmos () is a municipality of the Rhodope regional unit, located in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Its administrative seat is the municipal unit (town) of Iasmos. , it had a population of 12,247 people, with significant Sarakatsani and Muslim minority communities.

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Greek place.name: Iasmos
Greek place.name_local: Ίασμος
Greek place.type: municipality
Greek place.image_map: 2011 Dimos Iasmou.svg
Greek place.periph: East Macedonia and Thrace
Greek place.periphunit: Rhodope
Greek place.pop_municipality: 12247
Greek place.area_municipality: 485.3
Greek place.pop_municunit: 4974
Greek place.area_municunit: 221.8
Greek place.pop_community: 3892
Greek place.population_as_of: 2021
Greek place.elevation: 43
Greek place.licence: ΚΟ
Greek place.image_skyline: 20101027 Iasmos Top View Panoramic Rhodope Prefecture Thrace Greece.jpg

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Demographics
Economy
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== Geography == The municipality has an area of , while the municipal unit covers . The area of the municipality before the 2011 local government reforms was 200,403 stremmas (), with roughly three-fifths classified as mountainous or semi-mountainous and the remaining two-fifths as lowland plains. The municipality can thus be split into two geographical zones: a lowland area of fertile plains in the south, which extends along the southern foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, and a forested mountainous region in the southern and southwestern parts of the municipality. Feral horses and goats can be found in the mountainous areas.