Province of Rome

Nation	Italy
Region	Lazio
Capital(s)	Rome
Area	5,352 km2
Population (2009)	4,125,169
Density	770.8 inhab./km2
Comuni	121
Vehicle Registration	ROMA
Postal Code	n/a
Telephone Prefix	06, 0774, 0766
ISTAT	058
President	Nicola Zingaretti
Executive	Democratic Party
Last elections	2008
Map highlighting the location of the province of Rome in Italy

For provinces of Ancient Rome, see Roman province

The Province of Rome (Italian: Provincia di Roma), is a province and the metropolitan area of Rome in the Lazio region of Italy, with an area of 5,352 km², and a total population of over 4.1 million residents (April 2009) in 121 comuni (singular: comune), see Comuni of the Province of Rome. The province can be viewed as the extended metropolitan area of the city of Rome, although in its more peripheral portions, especially to the north, it comprises towns surrounded by firmly rural landscape, just as towns elsewhere throughout Italy.

[edit] Geography

The Province of Rome with its more than 5,000 km ², covering almost one third of the territory of Lazio. Geographically it occupies the flat area of the Roman and the Tiber Valley to the mountains and dell'Aniene Lucretili Sabini and, in addition to the mountainous regions of the Tolfa and Monti Sabatini to the north-west, the area of the mountains Tiburtini Prenestini Simbruini and east, the area of the Colli Albani and the northern foothills of the mountains and high Lepine Sacco valley to the south-east. The western boundary of the province is represented by the Tyrrhenian Sea on which spread to about 130 km from the coast near Rome from Civitavecchia to Torre Asturias. In the territory there are several lakes, almost all of volcanic origin, which are concentrated in the north-west of the mountains and Sabatini in the south-east of the Colli Albani.

Alban Hills

[edit] Poupulation

The main comuni by population are:

The Appian Way

Nemi

[edit] External links

• Official website

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