Central Italy

Central 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.

Geography
Central Italy borders to the northwest with Liguria (Northwest Italy); to the northeast with San Marino and Emilia-Romagna (Northeast Italy); to the south with Abruzzo, Molise and Campania (South Italy).

The Adriatic Sea is to the east and the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ligurian Sea to the west.

The Apennines are mountain ranges that go across Central Italy. The highest point, in the region, is Monte Vettore () that is  high. The main rivers are the Arno and Tiber rivers. The largest lakes are Trasimeno,  Bolsena and Bracciano.

Regions
Central Italy encompasses four of the 20 regions of Italy, including 41 provinces and 985  comuniː

 Region  Capital  Population(2016)  Area(km²)  Density(inh./km²)  Provinces  ComuniLazio Roma  5,888,472  17,232.29    5  378Marche Ancona  1,543,752  9,401.38    5  236Tuscany Firenze  3,744,398  22,987.04    10  279Umbria Perugia  891,181  8,464.33    21  92Total 12,067,803  58,085.04    41  985

As geographical region, however, Central Italy also includes the regions of Abruzzo and Molise, which are usually part of Southern Italy for historical reasonsː both were part of the southern Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

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

 Comune  Population  Province  Region Rome 2,864,731 Rome Lazio Florence382,808 Florence Tuscany Prato191,150 Prato Tuscany Perugia166,134 Perugia Umbria Livorno159,219 Livorno Tuscany Latina125,985 Latina Lazio Terni111,501 Terni Umbria Ancona100,861 Ancona Marche

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

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