Papaflessas (, before 1915: Κοντογόνι - ''Kontogoni'') is a village and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Messenia Messenia or Messinia ( ; ) is a regional unit (''perifereiaki enotita'') in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, in Greece. Until the implementation of the Kallikratis plan on 1 January 2011, Messenia was a prefecture (''nomos' ...

Peloponnese The Peloponnese ( ), Peloponnesus ( ; , ) or Morea (; ) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridg ...

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Pylos-Nestor Pylos-Nestoras () is a municipality in the Messenia regional unit, Peloponnese (region), Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Pylos. The municipality has an area of 554.265 km2. Municipality The municipality Pylos-Nestora ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 42.137 km². Population 1,120 (2021). The seat of the municipality was in

Vlachopoulo Vlachopoulo is the central village of the municipal unit of Papaflessas in the center of Messenia, Greece. The village is located 38 km from the capital of the prefecture Kalamata Kalamata ( ) is the second most populous city of the Pelopo ...

. It comprises five communities (τοπική κοινότητα):

, Metamorfosi, Maniaki, Papaflessas, and Margeli. It was named after the Greek priest and revolutionary Papaflessas.

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Populated places in Messenia Pylos-Nestor {{Peloponnese-geo-stub