Papaflessas is a former municipality

Communities and Municipalities of Greece

For the new municipalities of Greece see the Kallikratis ProgrammeThe municipalities and communities of Greece are one of several levels of government within the organizational structure of that country. Thirteen regions called peripheries form the largest unit of government beneath the State. ...

 in Messenia

Messenia

Messenia is a regional unit in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, one of 13 regions into which Greece has been divided by the Kallikratis plan, implemented 1 January 2011...

, Peloponnese, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 2,205 (2001). The seat of the municipality was in Vlachopoulo

Vlachopoulo

Vlachopoulo is the central village of the municipality of Papaflessas in the center of Messenia, Greece.The village is located 38 km from the capital of the prefecture Kalamata and just 20 km from the nearest beach....

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It comprises five communities (τοπική κοινότητα): Vlachopoulo

Vlachopoulo

Vlachopoulo is the central village of the municipality of Papaflessas in the center of Messenia, Greece.The village is located 38 km from the capital of the prefecture Kalamata and just 20 km from the nearest beach....

, Metamorfosi, Maniaki

Maniaki

Maniaki is a village in the municipality Pylos–Nestoras, Messenia, Greece. It was the place where the Battle of Maniaki occurred on June 1, 1825....

, Papaflessas, and Margeli.