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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, Χλέρινον (Chlérinon, "full of green vegetation"), derives from the Greek word χλωρός (chlōrós, "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] (φλωρός) is a local dialect form of χλωρός in Greek. The Slavic name for the city is Lerin (Лерин), 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