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.ISO Newsletter 19/02/2010

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(km²)  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

References

Other websites

Provincia di Forlì-Cesena homepage  

 Forli-Cesena