Provinces of Italy: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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 provincie (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 provincie of the Emilia-Romagna regione.

As of 2004, there are 103 provinces of Italy.

lists the two-letter codes for the provinces.

Abruzzo

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

1. Matera
2. Potenza

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

1. Avellino
2. Benevento
3. Caserta
4. Napoli
5. Salerno

1. Bologna
2. Ferrara
3. Forli-Cesena
4. Modena
5. Parma
6. Piacenza
7. Ravenna
8. Reggio nell' Emilia

1. Gorizia
2. Pordenone
3. Trieste
4. Udine

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

1. Genova
2. Imperia
3. La Spezia
4. Savona

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

1. Ancona
2. Ascoli Piceno
3. Fermo
4. Macerata
5. Pesaro e Urbino

1. Campobasso
2. Isernia

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

1. Bari
2. Barletta-Andria-Trani
3. Brindisi
4. Foggia
5. Lecce
6. Taranto

1. Cagliari
2. Nuoro
3. Oristano
4. Sassari

1. Agrigento
2. Caltanissetta
3. Catania
4. Enna
5. Messina
6. Palermo
7. Ragusa
8. Siracusa
9. Trapani

1. Arezzo
2. Firenze
3. Grosseto
4. Livorno
5. Lucca
6. Massa-Carrara
7. Pisa
8. Pistoia
9. Prato
10. Siena

1. Bozen-Bolzano
2. Trento

1. Perugia
2. Terni

1. Valle d'Aosta

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