Province of Rimini

The Province of Rimini () is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its largest town and capital is the city of Rimini.

The province of Rimini, with a long touristic tradition, is well known by the beach resorts of Rimini, Riccione, Bellaria-Igea Marina, Misano Adriatico and Cattolica, found over  along the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

History
The province of Rimini was created in 1992 with parts of the former province of Forlì that changed its name to the present province of Forlì-Cesena.

After a referendum in 2006, the municipalities of Casteldelci, Maiolo, Novafeltria, Pennabilli, San Leo, Sant'Agata Feltria and Talamello were transferred from the Province of Pesaro and Urbino (Marche) to the Province of Rimini on 15 August 2009.

Geography
The province of Rimini has an area of , the smallest province of the Emilia-Romagna. The territory of Rimini is divided into four zones:
 The northwestern part of the province that is the final part of the Padan Plain or Po Valley, ().
 A narrow strip along the Adriatic Sea; here is the capital of the province, Rimini.
 A region of small hills in most of the western and southern parts of the province.
 The Apennines mountain range is found in the soutwest of the province.

The province is bordered to the north by the Forlì-Cesena province, to the south by the Marche (Pesaro and Urbino province) and the Republic of San Marino, to the west by Tuscany (Arezzo province). To the east is the Adriatic Sea.

The main river in the province is the Marecchia, that starts in the Arezzo province and ends in the Adriatic Sea near the city of Rimini after a course of .

Population
There are 336,786 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km². The communes with more inhabitants are Rimini (148,908 inhabitants) and Riccione (34,965 inhabitants). The commune with fewest people living in it is Casteldelci, with 405 inhabitants.

Administration
The following shows the 45 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

 No.   Comune  Population(2017)  Area(km²)  Density  Altitude 1  Bellaria-Igea Marina    18.17    3 2  Casteldelci    49.68    618 3  Cattolica    6.20    12 4  Coriano    46.77    102 5  Gemmano    18.85    404 6  Maiolo    24.28    590 7  Misano Adriatico    22.35    3 8  Mondaino    19.84    400 9  Montefiore Conca    22.32    385 10  Montegridolfo    6.94    290 11  Montescudo-Monte Colombo    32.35    328 12  Morciano di Romagna    5.44    83 13  Novafeltria    41.84    275 14  Pennabilli    69.80    629 15  Poggio Torriana    34.74    155 16  Riccione    17.50    12 17  Rimini    135.71    5 18  Saludecio    34.27    343 19  San Clemente    20.70    179 20  San Giovanni in Marignano    21.37    29 21  San Leo    53.14    589 22  Sant'Agata Feltria    79.74    607 23  Santarcangelo di Romagna    45.01    42 24  Talamello    10.59    386 25  Verucchio    27.30    300

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References

Other websites

Provincia di Rimini homepage 

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