Statistics
Capital:	Messolonghi
Peripheries	West Greece
Area:	5,447 km² Ranked 1st
Inhabitants:	(1991), 230,688(2001)
Pop. density:	inh./km² 2001
ISO 3166-2:	GR-01
Name of inhabitants	Aitolo-Acarnanians
Code for municipalities	02xx
Number of provinces	5
Number of municipalities	27
Area codes in Greece:	11+30-263x0 11+30-264x0
Car designation	AI, Aetolia (Aitolia) ME, Acarnania (Messolonghi)
Postal code:	30x xx
Website:	www.aitoloakarnania.gr (in Greek)
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Aitolia-Acarnania, (Greek: Αιτωλοακαρνανία) also Aetoloacarnania, rarely Aetolia and Acarnania or Aitoloakarnania is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece. The prefecture is a combination of Aetolia and Acarnania. Its capital is Messolongi located in the south. The area is now connected with the Peloponnese peninsula with Rio-Antirio bridge. The surrounding prefectures are Arta in Epirus, a narrow length bordering Karditsa of Thessaly, Evrytania/Eurytania to the northeast and Phokida (Phokis) to the east. It is the largest prefecture in area in Greece.

Geography

Monuntains dominate the north, northeast, west and southeast especially the Acarnanian Mountains. The longest and main river is the Acheloos which ends as a delta in a wetlands in the southwest. The prefecture excludes islands lying in the west and belongs to the Kefallinia prefecture. There is one reservoir and a lake in the central part. Its mountains inclodes the Panaitoliko in the northeast and the Acarnanian Mountains where a spring water company is founded.

Climate

Its climate varies from hot summers to mild winters in the low lying areas, cool winters dominate the mountain areas while in the highest elevations, summers are cool and snow and cold weather dominate the winter months in the Panaitoliko.

Transportation

• Greece Interstate 5/E55, SE, S, Cen., N
• Greece Interstate 38, Cen., NE
• Greece Interstate 42 , N, NW
• Greece Interstate 48/E65 , SE
• Road linking Agios Nikolaos, Astakos and Aitoliko, NW, W, SW, S

Communications

Radio

• Agrinio 93.7 FM

Television

• Lychnos , UHF channel 32 (religious), broadcasting from Nafpaktos
• Nafpaktos TV - Nafpaktos

Newspapers

• Akarnania
• En Bampini - Bampini
• Vela

Provinces

• Province of Messolonghi - Messolonghi/Messolongi
• Province of Nafpaktia - Nafpaktos
• Province of Trichonida - Agrinio
• Province of Vonitsa and Xirokampi - Vonitsa

Municipalities

• Agrinio
• Aitoliko
• Alyzia - Kandyla
• Amfilochia
• Anaktorio - Vonitsa
• Angelokastro
• Antirrio
• Apodotia - Ano Chora
• Arakynthos - Pappadates
• Astakos
• Chalkia
• Fyties
• Iera Poli Messolongiou - Messolonghi
• Inacho - Neo Chalkiopoulo
• Kekropia - Paleros
• Makrynia - Gavalou
• Menidi
• Nafpaktos
• Neapoli - Trianteika
• Panaitoliko - Skoutera
• Parakampylia - Ano Agios Vlassios
• Paravola
• Platanos
• Pyllini - Simos
• Stratos
• Thermo
• Thespies

Towns and cities

• Agrinio
• Amfilochia
• Antirio
• Astakos
• Messolongi, sometimes Messolonghi (capital)
• Nafpaktos
• Vonitsa

Communities

• See: Communities of Aitolia-Acarnania

Persons

• Giovas Vlachiotis , a person where he fought on the Greek side during the Greek War of Independence, he did not make it, his som Michail continued to fight against the Turks.

External links

• culture.gr on Aetoloacarnania
• Structurae on Aetoloacarnania

See also:

• Prefectures of Greece