Provinces of Italy

In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, 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, which has only one provincia: 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, 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.

Abruzzo

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

Basilicata

1. Matera
2. Potenza

Calabria

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

Campania

1. Avellino
2. Benevento
3. Caserta
4. Napoli (Naples)
5. Salerno

Emilia-Romagna

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

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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

Lazio (Latium)

1. Frosinone
2. Latina
3. Rieti
4. Roma (Rome)
5. Viterbo

Liguria

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

Lombardia (Lombardy)

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

Marche

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

Molise

1. Campobasso
2. Isernia

Piemonte (Piedmont)

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

Puglia (Apulia)

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

Sardegna (Sardinia)

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

Sicilia (Sicily)

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

Toscana (Tuscany)

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

Trentino-SüdTirol (Trentino-South Tyrol)

1. Bolzano / Bozen
2. Trento

Umbria

1. Perugia
2. Terni

Valle d'Aosta / Vallée d'Aoste

1. Aosta / Aoste

Veneto

1. Belluno
2. Padova (Padua)
3. Rovigo
4. Treviso
5. Venezia (Venice)
6. Verona
7. Vicenza