South Italy

South Italy ( or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a NUTS1 level region.

South Italy is defined only for statistical and for some elections. It should not to be confused with the Mezzogiorno, or Southern Italy, which generally refers to all the southern half of the Italian State, including the island of Sicily and sometimes even Sardinia. The two islands form a distinct statistical region.region.

Geography
South Italy borders to the north with Central Italy (to the northwest with Lazio and to the northeast with Marche). The Adriatic Sea is to the east and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west, and the Ionian Sea to the south.

The Apennines are mountain ranges that goes from north to south through South Italy. The highest point in the region is the Corno Grande () (part of the Gran Sasso) that is  high.

Regions
Central Italy encompasses six of the 20 regions of Italy, including 24 provinces and 1,789  comuniː

 Region  Capital  Population(2016)  Area(km²)  Density(inh./km²)  Provinces  ComuniAbruzzo L'Aquila  1,326,513  10,831.84    4  305Apulia Bari  4,077,166  19,540.90    6  258Basilicata Potenza  573,694  10,073.32    2  131Calabria Catanzaro  1,970,521  15,221.90    5  409Campania Naples 5,850,850  13,670.95    5  550Molise Campobasso  312,027  4,460.65    2  136Total 14,110,771  73,799.56    24  1,789

The comuni with more than 100,000 persons living in them areː

 Comune  Population  Province  Region Naples 974,074 Naples Campania Bari326,344 Bari Apulia Taranto201,100 Taranto Apulia Reggio Calabria183,035 Reggio Calabria Calabria Foggia151,991 Foggia Apulia Salerno135,261 Salerno Campania Giugliano in Campania122,974 Naples Campania Pescara121,014 Pescara Abruzzo Andria100,861 Barletta-Andria-Trani Apulia

Related pages
 NUTS level 1:
 Northwest Italy
 Northeast Italy
 Central Italy
 South Italy
 Insular Italy
 Northern Italy
 Southern Italy

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