Province of Perugia

The **province of Perugia** () is a province in the Umbria region of Central Italy. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The city of Perugia is also the capital of Umbria.

## History

The province of Perugia was created in 1860 as _Province of the Umbria_. At that time, the province was larger than now because the present Province of Terni was included.

In 1927, the old province of the Umbria was divided in two provinces, Perugia and Terni.

## Geography

The province of Perugia, with an area of , is the larger of the two province in Umbria.

The province is bordered to the north and east by the Marche (Pesaro and Urbino, Ancona, Macerata and Ascoli Piceno provinces), to the south with Lazio (province of Rieti) and with the province of Terni, and to the west with Tuscany (Siena and Arezzo provinces).

The main river in the region is the Tiber. The largest lake of the province, and of Umbria, is the Trasimeno, one of the largest lake of Italy.

The highest mountain in the province is Cima del Redentore, in the same group of mountains of the Monte Vettore, with an altitude of .

There are four regional natural parks in the province of Perugia: _Parco di Colfiorito_, _Parco del Lago Trasimeno_, _Parco del Monte Cucco_ and _Parco del Monte Subasio_. The Monti Sibillini National Park ()  is mainly in the Manche region but part of it is in Umbria.

## Population

, there are 662,110 persons living in the province, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

## Administration

The province has 59 _comuni_. The _comuni_ with more people living in them areː

|_Comune_|Population.|Area (km²)|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Perugia|align=right|166,134|449.51||
|Foligno|align=right|57,155|264.67||
|Città di Castello|align=right|39,913|387.32||
|Spoleto|align=right|38,218|348.14||
|Gubbio|align=right|32,216|525.78||
|Assisi|align=right|28,299|align=right|187,19|
|Bastia Umbra|align=right|21,874|align=right|27,60|
|Corciano|align=right|21,332|align=right|63,72|

The largest _comune_ is Gubbio, with  and the smallest is Paciano, with . The _comune_ with fewest inhabitants is Poggiodomo with 117 inhabitants.

## Related pages

- List of comuni of the Province of Perugia

## Other websites

- Official Site

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Province of Perugia
- **native name lang**: it
- **settlement type**: Provinces of Italy, Province
- **image skyline**: Sedi della provincia Piazza Italia.JPG
- **image alt**: Palazzo della Provincia
- **image caption**: _Palazzo della Provincia_, Perugia
- **image shield**: Provincia di Perugia-Stemma.svg
- **image map**: Perugia in Italy.svg
- **map alt**: Map with the province of Perugia in Italy
- **map caption**: Map with the province of Perugia, in red, in Italy
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Regions of Italy, Region
- **subdivision name1**: Umbria
- **seat type**: Capital
- **seat**: Perugia
- **parts type**: Comune, Comuni
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: 59
- **leader title**: President
- **leader name**: Nando Mismetti
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 6337.15
- **population total**: 662110
- **population as of**: 31 December 2015
- **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**: 06010-06089, 06100
- **area code type**: Telephone prefix
- **area code**: 075, 0578, 0742, 0743
- **registration plate**: Italian car number plates, PG
- **blank name sec1**: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, ISTAT
- **blank info sec1**: 054
- **website**: [http://www.provincia.perugia.it/ Official website]