Province of Piacenza

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

Geography
The province of Piacenza has an area of . It is the most western of the nine provinces in the region of Emilia-Romagna in northwestern Italy. It is divided in two zones from north to south; the northern part is largely flat (the Pianura Padana or valley of the Po river) but the southern two thirds are hilly and gets up the Apennines mountains.

The province is bordered to the north by the region of Lombardy (Cremona, Lodi and Pavia provinces), to the east by the Parma province, to the south by the region of Liguria (Metropolitan City of Genoa) and to the west by the region of Piedmont (Alessandria province).

The main river in the province is the Po river.

The main lakes in the province are artificial lakes; two of them are:

 Mignano (Lago di Mignano), at an altitude of . It is the largest lake of the province with an area of .
 Trebecco (Lago di Trebecco), at an altitude of  with an area of .

The highest mountain in the province is Monte Bue (); it is  high.

Population
There are 286,758 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km². The communes with more inhabitants are Piacenza (102,355 inhabitants) and Fiorenzuola d'Arda (15,306 inhabitants). The commune with fewest people living in it is Zerba, with 78 inhabitants.

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

 No.   Comune  Population(2016)  Area(km²)  Density  Altitude 1  Agazzano    36.15    187 2  Alseno    55.27    81 3  Besenzone    23.95    48 4  Bettola    122.37    329 5  Bobbio    106.53    272 6  Borgonovo Val Tidone    51.22    114 7  Cadeo    38.48    65 8  Calendasco    36.94    55 9  Caminata    3.17    364 10  Caorso    40.98    42 11  Carpaneto Piacentino    63.08    114 12  Castel San Giovanni    44.04    74 13  Castell'Arquato    52.75    224 14  Castelvetro Piacentino    35.06    39 15  Cerignale    30.82    725 16  Coli    71.69    638 17  Corte Brugnatella    46.31    350 18  Cortemaggiore    36.47    52 19  Farini    112.36    424 20  Ferriere    178.50    626 21  Fiorenzuola d'Arda    59.77    80 22  Gazzola    44.48    139 23  Gossolengo    31.10    86 24  Gragnano Trebbiense    34.61    82 25  Gropparello    56.33    355 26  Lugagnano Val d'Arda    54.40    229 27  Monticelli d'Ongina    46.33    40 28  Morfasso    83.93    631 29  Nibbiano    43.92    284 30  Ottone    98.96    510 31  Pecorara    53.77    481 32  Piacenza    118.24    61 33  Pianello Val Tidone    36.29    192 34  Piozzano    43.61    222 35  Podenzano    44.34    118 36  Ponte dell'Olio    43.92    216 37  Pontenure    33.85    65 38  Rivergaro    43.83    140 39  Rottofreno    35.17    65 40  San Giorgio Piacentino    49.19    103 41  San Pietro in Cerro    27.35    44 42  Sarmato    27.26    74 43  Travo    81.01    176 44  Vernasca    72.57    420 45  Vigolzone    42.04    165 46  Villanova sull'Arda    36.57    42 47  Zerba    24.13    906 48  Ziano Piacentino    32.78    220

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References

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