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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

  1. Chieti
  2. L'Aquila
  3. Pescara
  4. Teramo
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Basilicata

  1. Matera
  2. Potenza
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Calabria

  1. Catanzaro
  2. Cosenza
  3. Crotone
  4. Reggio Calabria
  5. Vibo Valentia
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Campania

  1. Avellino
  2. Benevento
  3. Caserta
  4. Napoli
  5. Salerno
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Emilia-Romagna

  1. Bologna
  2. Ferrara
  3. Forlì-Cesena
  4. Modena
  5. Parma
  6. Piacenza
  7. Ravenna
  8. Reggio Emilia
  9. Rimini
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Friuli-Venezia Giulia

  1. Gorizia
  2. Pordenone
  3. Trieste
  4. Udine
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Lazio (Latium)

  1. Frosinone
  2. Latina
  3. Rieti
  4. Roma
  5. Viterbo
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Liguria

  1. Genova
  2. Imperia
  3. La Spezia
  4. Savona
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Lombardia (Lombardy)

  1. Bergamo
  2. Brescia
  3. Como
  4. Cremona
  5. Lecco
  6. Lodi
  7. Mantova
  8. Milano
  9. Monza e Brianza effective in 2009
  10. Piacenza
  11. Pavia
  12. Sondrio
  13. Varese
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Marche (Marches)

  1. Ancona
  2. Ascoli Piceno
  3. Fermo effective in 2009
  4. Macerata
  5. Pesaro e Urbino
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Molise

  1. Campobasso
  2. Isernia
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Piemonte (Piedmont)

  1. Alessandria
  2. Asti
  3. Biella
  4. Cuneo
  5. Novara
  6. Torino
  7. Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
  8. Vercelli
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Puglia (Apulia)

  1. Bari
  2. Barletta-Andria-Trani effective in 2009
  3. Brindisi
  4. Foggia
  5. Lecce
  6. Taranto
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Sardegna (Sardinia)

  1. Province of Cagliari
  2. Province of Carbonia-Iglesias - effective in 2005
  3. Province of Medio Campidano - effective in 2005
  4. Province of Nuoro
  5. Province of Ogliastra - effective in 2005
  6. Province of Olbia-Tempio - effective in 2005
  7. Province of Oristano
  8. Province of Sassari
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Sicilia (Sicily)

  1. Province of Agrigento
  2. Province of Caltanissetta
  3. Province of Catania
  4. Province of Enna
  5. Province of Messina
  6. Province of Palermo
  7. Province of Ragusa
  8. Province of Siracusa
  9. Province of Trapani
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Toscana (Tuscany)

  1. Province of Arezzo
  2. Firenze
  3. Province of Grosseto
  4. Province of Livorno
  5. Province of Lucca
  6. Province of Massa-Carrara
  7. Province of Pisa
  8. Province of Pistoia
  9. Province of Prato
  10. Province of Siena
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Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-South Tyrol)

  1. Bolzano-Bozen
  2. Trento
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Umbria

  1. Province of Perugia
  2. Province of Terni
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Valle d'Aosta

  1. Aosta.
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Veneto

  1. Padova
  2. Province of Rovigo
  3. Province of Treviso
  4. Venezia
  5. Province of Verona
  6. Province of Vicenza







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