As from 2011 the regional unit of Florina is subdivided into 3 municipalities. These are :
Amyntaio
Florina
Prespes
Prefecture
Florina was created as a prefecture in 1915. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Florina was created out of the former prefecture Florina. The prefecture had the same territory as the present regional unit. At the same time, the municipalities were reorganised, according to the table below.
New municipality
Old municipalities
Seat
Amyntaio
Amyntaio
Amyntaio
Amyntaio
Aetos
Amyntaio
Amyntaio
Variko
Amyntaio
Amyntaio
Lechovo
Amyntaio
Amyntaio
Nymfaio
Amyntaio
Amyntaio
Filotas
Amyntaio
Florina
Florina
Florina
Florina
Kato Kleines
Florina
Florina
Meliti
Florina
Florina
Perasma
Florina
Prespes
Prespes
Laimos
Prespes
Krystallopigi
Laimos
Demographics
The demographic composition of the area the 19th and early 20th centuries is unclear as many factors contributed to the ethnic orientation of the people; out of these religion was particularly important thus giving rise to a proselytism struggle between the Greek Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Bulgarian Exarchate. In 1886, 78.4% of the Christian population of the Florina kaza - a part of Manastir Vilayet - was aligned with the Ecumenical Patriarchateand 21.6% with the Bulgarian Exarchate, however by 1900 the Patriarchatists had dropped to 50.9% and Exarchatists had risen to 49.1%. In 1914 the majority of the Christian population of the Florina district was recorded as Bulgarian, 70% of whom were monolingual in Bulgarian only. The 1920s was a period of deportation and migration, during which the Greek government aimed the systematic removal of the Bulgarophone population. In 1925, according to the Prefect of Florina 52% of the population were schismatics, 25% were Patriarchists, 15% were refugees, 6% were Vlachs and 3% were indigenous Greeks. According to government source in 1925 there were 45,527 Slav speakers, of whom 34,234 former Exarchists and 11,293 former Patriarchists; 7449 Greek refugees; 3590 Vlachs; 1882 native Greeks; 349 Jews and 27 Muslims Albanians. According to Kollopoulos in 1925 the recorded Slav Macedonians were 64,465 and constituted 64% of the population of the district of Florina, of whom 28,673 were schismatic. The 1928 census showed 38,562 Slavic speakers in the nome of Florina or 31% of the population, but according to contemporary Greek authors the numbers of this census "clearly" do not reflect the actual strength as a result of official policy of the Greek government of reluctance. According to the Prefect of Florina P. Kalligas in 1930 there were 76,370, of whom 61,950 lacked Greek consciousness, while his successor V. Balkos estimates those speaking Bulgarian as 75-80% of the population of the nome in 1931. According to the Prefect of Florina, in 1935 of 11,683 families 56% had Slavic national consciousness, while 41.3% were "foreign speakers" with Greek national consciousness According to the 2011 census, the population of Florina regional unit was 51,414 people. The local Greek population includes a linguistic minority of bilingual Slavophones, who in the early 1990s formed about 64% of the rural population and about 16% of the prefecture's total population. Anastasia Karakasidou estimated that 80% of the population of Florina Prefecture is either Slavic-speaking or descended from Slavic-speaking families. There are also around 1,200 Slavophones—approximately 2% of the local population—who profess an ethnic Macedonian identity. There also exist smaller communities of Aromanians and Arvanites, which today mostly have an ethnic Greek identity. A diverse range of dialects are spoken in the regional unit alongside the official standard and local Macedonian varieties of Greek. A minority of people speak the local Macedonian Slavic dialects and especially the Lower Prespa dialect and the Prilep-Bitola dialect.
Agriculture
Florina is rich in agriculture. The main production are peppers, beans and peaches. Beans are produced near Lake Prespa.
