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The metropolitan area has a total population of 1,646,064 estimated by the OECD and an area of 1,127 km 2, giving a density of 1,461 people per square kilometre. [1] It is the fourth most populous metropolitan area in Italy. 51% of the population lives within the city of Turin.
It has an area of 6,827 km 2 (2,636 sq mi), [3] and a total population of 2,211,114. There are 312 comuni (sg.: comune) in the metropolitan area [4] – the most of any province or metropolitan city in Italy. The province with the second highest number of comuni (municipalities) is Cuneo with 250.
Location map Italy Torino.png.jpg Module:Location map/data/Italy Turin is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Turin . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Along with Milan, Genoa, and La Spezia, Turin was one of Italy's four cities that experienced area bombing by the RAF; the heaviest raid took place on 13 July 1943, when 295 bombers dropped 763 tons of bombs, killing 792 people. [23] Overall, these raids killed 2,069 inhabitants of Turin, and destroyed or damaged 54% of all buildings in the city.
The metropolitan areas of Italy are statistical areas denoting a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories in the Italian republic. Since in Italy there is no unique definition of metropolitan area, below are given definition according to several sources.
According to historical maps and documents the land reclamation of the Po Valley reached its peak during the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and continued in the Modern Age (17th–18th centuries), with the last marsh areas only being reclaimed in the 20th century: channels and drainage system are still active and allow the Po Valley to be ...
The Po Valley is the largest plain in Italy, with 46,000 km 2 (18,000 sq mi), and it represents over 70% of the total plain area in the country. [17] The Po Valley is divided into two bands: [ 22 ] the high plain, which borders the Alpine and Apennine hills, and the low plain located in the center and extended up to the Po delta.
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