NEA MOUDANIA

'Nea Moudania' is the main town of the municipality of Moudania, with a population of 17,032 inhabitants (according to national statistics agency http://www.statistics.gr/StatMenu.asp) Halkidiki's most populous municipality. The city is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial centre of the whole prefecture. It was built after 1922 by Asia Minor Greek
refugees who gave the settlement the name of their previous city, (now Mudanya, Turkey) hence the word ''Nea'', which means ''new'' in Greek. It is also called 'Moudania', but Moudania is the municipality's name and is the seat of this municipality. The municipality consists of the municipal departments shown below:

★ Aghios Mamas

★ Aghios Panteleimon

★ Dionisiou

★ Zografou

★ Potidaia

★ Nea Moudania

★ Portaria

★ Simandra

★ Floghita
Nea Moudania is involved in major cultural and economical activities, since it hosts the only Technical Education Institute in Halkidiki and a harbour which serves as Thessaloniki's adjuvant.

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Nea Moudania has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, a post office and a few squares (''plateies'').

Historical Population

Year	Population	Change	Change (%)	Municipal population
1981	4,142	-	-	-
1991	4,403	261	+6.30%	13,652
2001	6,475	2,072	+47%	17,032

External links

★ Nea Moudania in Chalkidiki

★ Municipality of Moudania site (archive link, was dead)

★ Mapquest - Nea Moudania, street map not yet available

★ Nea Moudania, by Holiday.gr

★ Coordinates:

See also

★ Communities of Chalkidiki

★ Apamea Myrlea