Province of Forlì-Cesena

The **province of Forlì-Cesena** () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region in northeastern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital is the city of Forlì.

## History

The province was created as _Province of Forlì_ with the car plates _FO_.

In 1992, the southern part of the province was separated to form the new Province of Rimini and the name of the province was changed to the present of **Province of Forlì-Cesena** and the car plates were changed in 1999 to _FC_.

The ISO 3166-2 of the province was also changed to _FC_ in 2010.

## Geography

The province of Forlì-Cesena has an area of . It is, together  with the Rimini province, the most southerly of the provinces in the Emilia-Romagna region; it has a short coast along the Adriatic Sea.

The provincial capital, the city of Forlì, is along the Montone river and at about  southeast of Bologna, the capital of the region.

The province is bordered to the north by the province of Ravenna, to the northwest by the province of Mantua in Lombardy, to the west by the province of Florence province in Tuscany, to the south by the province of Arezzo, also in Tuscany, to the southeast by the Rimini and to the east by the Adriatic Sea.

In the province there are two main protected areas:
- _Parco naturale del fiume Savio_ (Natural park of the Savio river), along the Savio river; and
- _Parco nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna_, a national park in the northern Apennines.

## Population

There are 394,067 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

## Administration

The following shows the 30 _comuni_ with the population, and the area and altitude.

|No.|_Comune_|Population|Area <small>(km²)</small> !! Density !! Altitude|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Bagno di Romagna||233.52||462|
|2|Bertinoro||57.25||254|
|3|Borghi||30.23||264|
|4|Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole||38.95||68|
|5|Cesena||249.47||44|
|6|Cesenatico||45.16||2|
|7|Civitella di Romagna||117.93||219|
|8|Dovadola||38.97||140|
|9|Forlì||228.20||34|
|10|Forlimpopoli||24.46||30|
|11|Galeata||63.13||237|
|12|Gambettola||7.77||31|
|13|Gatteo||14.14||20|
|14|Longiano||23.58||179|
|15|Meldola||79.08||58|
|16|Mercato Saraceno||99.33||134|
|17|Modigliana||101.17||185|
|18|Montiano||9.26||159|
|19|Portico e San Benedetto||61.05||309|
|20|Predappio||91.39||133|
|21|Premilcuore||98.56||459|
|22|Rocca San Casciano||50.56||210|
|23|Roncofreddo||51.53||314|
|24|San Mauro Pascoli||17.29||21|
|25|Santa Sofia||148.87||257|
|26|Sarsina||100.72||243|
|27|Savignano sul Rubicone||23.30||32|
|28|Sogliano al Rubicone||93.43||379|
|29|Tredozio||62.20||334|
|30|Verghereto||117.90||812|

## Other websites

- Provincia di Forlì-Cesena homepage

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Province of Forlì-Cesena
- **native name lang**: it
- **settlement type**: Provinces of Italy, Province
- **image skyline**: Forlicesena forli.jpg
- **image alt**: Piazza Aurelio Saffi, Forlì
- **image caption**: Piazza Aurelio Saffi, Forlì
- **image flag**: Flag of the Province of Forlì-Cesena.svg
- **image shield**: Provincia di Forlì-Cesena-Stemma.svg
- **image map**: Forli-Cesena in Italy.svg
- **map alt**: Map with the province of Forlì-Cesena in Italy
- **map caption**: Map with the province of Forlì-Cesena, in red, in Italy
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Regions of Italy, Region
- **subdivision name1**: Emilia-Romagna
- **seat type**: Capital city, Capital
- **seat**: Forlì
- **parts type**: _Comune, Comuni_
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: 30
- **leader title**: President
- **leader name**: Davide Drei
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 2378.40
- **population total**: 394067
- **population as of**: January 2017
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset1**: +1
- **timezone1 dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset1 dst**: +2
- **postal code type**: Postal code
- **postal code**: 47121 - 47122 Forlì,
47521 - 47522 Cesena
- **area code type**: Telephone prefix
- **area code**: 0543, 0547
- **iso code**: IT-FC
- **registration plate**: Italian car number plates, FC
- **blank name sec1**: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, ISTAT
- **blank info sec1**: 040
- **website**: [http://web.provincia.fc.it/ Official website]