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Provinces of Italy
In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division, comprised between municipality (comune) and region (regione).
- A provincia is composed by many comuni (pl), and usually several province (pl) form a region, (with the exception of the region of Aosta Valley, composed by the only provincia of Aosta).
- For example Modena and Maranello are two comuni of the provincia of Modena, and Modena and Reggio Emilia are two province of the regione Emilia-Romagna.
As of 2004, there are 103 provinces of Italy. In 2005, a 4 new provinces in Sardinia will be effective, and 3 further new provinces will be effective in 2009, thus bringing the total to 110 provinces. The list below higlights in bold the provincia which is the administrative capital of the relevant regione.
ISO 3166-2:IT lists the two-letter codes for the provinces.
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Abruzzo
Basilicata
- Matera
- Potenza
Calabria
- Catanzaro
- Cosenza
- Crotone
- Reggio Calabria
- Vibo Valentia
Campania
- Avellino
- Benevento
- Caserta
- Napoli
- Salerno
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- Gorizia
- Pordenone
- Trieste
- Udine
Lazio (Latium)
- Frosinone
- Latina
- Rieti
- Roma
- Viterbo
Liguria
- Genova
- Imperia
- La Spezia
- Savona
Lombardia (Lombardy)
- Bergamo
- Brescia
- Como
- Cremona
- Lecco
- Lodi
- Mantova
- Milano
- Monza e Brianza effective in 2009
- Piacenza
- Pavia
- Sondrio
- Varese
Marche (Marches)
- Ancona
- Ascoli Piceno
- Fermo effective in 2009
- Macerata
- Pesaro e Urbino
Molise
- Campobasso
- Isernia
Piemonte (Piedmont)
- Alessandria
- Asti
- Biella
- Cuneo
- Novara
- Torino
- Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
- Vercelli
Puglia (Apulia)
- Bari
- Barletta-Andria-Trani effective in 2009
- Brindisi
- Foggia
- Lecce
- Taranto
Sardegna (Sardinia)
- Cagliari
- Carbonia-Iglesias - effective in 2005
- Medio Campidano - effective in 2005
- Nuoro
- Ogliastra - effective in 2005
- Olbia-Tempio - effective in 2005
- Oristano
- Sassari
Sicilia (Sicily)
- Agrigento
- Caltanissetta
- Catania
- Enna
- Messina
- Palermo
- Ragusa
- Siracusa
- Trapani
Toscana (Tuscany)
- Trapani
- Firenze
- Grosseto
- Livorno
- Lucca
- Massa-Carrara
- Pisa
- Pistoia
- Prato
- Siena
Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-South Tyrol)
- Bolzano-Bozen
- Trento
Umbria
Valle d'Aosta
- Aosta.
Veneto
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45