page_title: Province of Perugia
section_title: Main cities
hierarchical_section_title: Province of Perugia / Main cities
caption_attribution_description: Map of the Province of Perugia, Italy
context_page_description: The Province of Perugia is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Perugia. The province covered all of Umbria until 1927, when the province of Terni was carved out of its southern third. The province of Perugia has an area of 6,334 km² covering two-thirds of Umbria, and a total population of about 660,000. There are 59 comunes in the province. The province has numerous tourist attractions, especially artistic and historical ones, and is home to the Lake Trasimeno, the largest lake of Central Italy. It is historically the ancestral origin of the Umbri, while later it was a Roman province and then part of the Papal States until the late 19th century.
context_section_description: The principal towns in the province, with a population over 20,000, are:
caption: Map of the province of Perugia
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