[3] The municipal unit of Koufalia consists of two communities:[1] The aforementioned population figures are as of 2021.

[1] Koufalia is located 35 kilometres North-West of the City of Thessaloniki, and virtually by the Axios river.

[4] They moved to the area after the 1919 signing of the Treaty of Neuilly between Greece and Bulgaria that forced a population exchange between the two countries.

In return the mostly Bulgarian[5] population of the village immigrated to Bulgaria, settling mainly on the Black Sea coast, in the area of Anchialos.

[4] It has a number of cultural organisations, the main one being “Megas Alexandros” (Alexander the Great); it was founded in 1980.