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The provinces of Italy ( Italian: province d'Italia) are the second-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, on an intermediate level between a municipality ( comune) and a region ( regione ). Since 2015, provinces have been classified as "institutional bodies of second level". [ 1]
Subdivisions. Provinces. The regions of Italy ( Italian: regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level. [1] There are twenty regions, five of which are autonomous regions with special status. Under the Constitution of Italy, each region is an autonomous ...
Political map of Italy in the year 1843. Following the defeat of Napoleon's France, the Congress of Vienna (1815) was convened to redraw the European continent. In Italy, the Congress restored the pre-Napoleonic patchwork of independent governments, either directly ruled or strongly influenced by the prevailing European powers, particularly ...
Italy is part of the Northern Hemisphere. Two of the Pelagie Islands(Lampedusa and Lampione) are located on the African continent. The total area of Italy is 301,230 km2(116,310 sq mi), of which 294,020 km2(113,520 sq mi) is land and 7,210 km2(2,784 sq mi) is water. It lies between latitudes 35°and 47° N, and longitudes 6°and 19° E.
Piedmont ( / ˈpiːdmɒnt / PEED-mont, Italian: Piemonte, pronounced [pjeˈmonte]; Piedmontese: Piemont, [pjeˈmʊŋt] ), [a] located in northwest Italy, is one of the 20 regions of Italy. [3] It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the northwest.
From ancient times to early modern era. Italy was unified by the Roman Republic in the latter part of the third century BC. For 700 years, it was a de facto territorial extension of the capital of the Roman Republic and Empire, and for a long time experienced a privileged status but was not converted into a province.
Campania [a] is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri. The capital of the Campania region is Naples. [6] As of 2018, the region had a population of around 5,820,000 ...
The 110 provinces of Italy. For the purposes of local government, nineteen of Italy's twenty regions are further divided into a total of 109 provinces. The autonomous region of Aosta Valley is an exception in that it has no provinces: the regional government itself retains those powers which elsewhere are devolved to the provincial level. It is ...