Province of Fermo

The Province of Fermo () is a province in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Fermo.

It is a province since 2004 with parts of the province of Ascoli Piceno but it was in 2009 when it became an active province.

Geography
Fermo has an area of , the smallest province of the Marche region. The province is surrounded, by land, by two provinces of Marcheː the province of Macerata in the north and west and the province of Ascoli Piceno in the south; to the east is the Adriatic Sea on the east.

The main rivers in the province, from north to south, are (all of them flow to the east into tfe Adriatic Sea but Ete Morto)ː
 Chienti - 91 km long; its mouth is near Civitanova Marche.
 Tenna - 70 km long; its mouth is near Porto Sant'Elpidio.
 Ete Morto - 40 km long; it is a tributary of the Chienti river.
 Ete Vivo 35 km long; its mouth is near Porto San Giorgio.
 Aso - 63 km long; its mouth is near Pedaso.

The highest mountain in the province is Monte Priora,() in the Apennines; it is  high.

Population
There are 174,849 persons living in the province (1 January 2017), for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Evolution of the population

 Municipalities 
There are 40 municipalities (or comuni) in the province; they are:

 Altidona
 Amandola
 Belmonte Piceno
 Campofilone
 Falerone
 Fermo
 Francavilla d'Ete
 Grottazzolina
 Lapedona
 Magliano di Tenna
 Massa Fermana
 Monsampietro Morico
 Montappone
 Monte Giberto	
 Monte Rinaldo
 Monte San Pietrangeli
 Monte Urano
 Monte Vidon Combatte
 Monte Vidon Corrado
 Montefalcone Appennino
 Montefortino
 Montegiorgio
 Montegranaro
 Monteleone di Fermo
 Montelparo
 Monterubbiano
 Montottone
 Moresco	
 Ortezzano
 Pedaso
 Petritoli
 Ponzano di Fermo
 Porto San Giorgio
 Porto Sant'Elpidio
 Rapagnano
 Sant'Elpidio a Mare
 Santa Vittoria in Matenano
 Servigliano
 Smerillo
 Torre San Patrizio

The largest comune is Fermo, with  and the smallest is Pedaso, with . The comune with fewest people living in it is Smerillo with 366 inhabitants.

Main comuni
The following table shows the 10 comuni with more inhabitants with their population, and their area and altitude.

 No.   Comune  Population(2017)  Area(km²)  Density  Altitude(m) 1  Fermo    124.53    319 2  Porto Sant'Elpidio    18.13    4 3  Sant'Elpidio a Mare    50.52    251 4 Porto San Giorgio    8.79    4 5  Montegranaro    31.42    279 6  Monte Urano    16.72    247 7  Montegiorgio    47.45    411 8 Amandola    69.50    500 9  Altidona    12.97    224 10  Grottazzolina    9.26    227

 Gallery 

Related pages
 List of comuni of the Province of Fermo

References

 Fermo