Metropolitan City of Bari

The Metropolitan City of Bari () is a metropolitan city in the Apulia region of Southern Italy. Its capital, and of the Apulia region, is the city of Bari.

It replaced the Province of Bari and includes the city of Bari and some forty other municipalities (comuni). It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014. It has been operative since January 1, 2015.

Geography
The Metropolitan City of Bari is in the central part of Apulia and has an area of .

The Metropolitan City is bordered on the east by the Adriatic Sea, to the northwest by Basilicata (province of Potenza), to the north by the province of province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, to the west with Basilicata (province of Matera), to the southeast by the province of province of Brindisi and to the south with the province of Taranto.

Population
, there are 1,263,820 persons living in the province, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Administration
The province has 41 comuni. The comuni with more people living in them (more than 30,000) areː

 Comune  Population.  Area(km²)  Altitude(m)Bari 326,344 117.39 5Altamura 70,396 431.38 467Molfetta 59,874 58.97 15Bitonto 55,540 174.34 118Monopoli 49,133 157.89 9Corato 48,312 169.35 232Gravina in Puglia 43,872 384.74 338Modugno 38,515 32.24 79

The largest comune is Altamura, with  and the smallest is Cellamare, with . The comune with fewest inhabitants is Poggiorsini, with 1,450 inhabitants.

Related pages
List of comuni of the Metropolitan City of Bari

References

Other websites

 Official website 

Bari
Category:2015 establishments in Italy