Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 138.138 km². It is 11 km 0 abbr=off from Nafplio, which was its historic harbour. A settlement of great antiquity, Argos has been continuously inhabited as at least a substantial village for the past 7,000 years.

A resident of the city of Argos is known as an Argive ( , ; ). However, this term is also used to refer to those ancient Greeks generally who assaulted