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The regions of Italy (Italian: regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level. [1] There are twenty regions, five of which are autonomous regions with special status. Under the Constitution of Italy, each region is an autonomous entity with defined powers.
In 2014 the Friuli-Venezia Giulia of Debora Serracchiani was the first Italian region to pass a law for abolishing its provinces, while implementing the national reform in the local administrative level. [17] The Friuli region has multiplied four provinces in 18 unions of the Italian administrative unit called comune. [18]
Italian rivers are categorized into two main groups: the Alpine-Po river rivers and the Apennine-island rivers. [24] The longest Italian river is the Po (652 km or 405 mi), which flows from the Monviso, runs through the entire Po Valley from west to east, and then flows, with a delta, into the Adriatic Sea. In addition to being the longest, it ...
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This category groups articles on the official administrative Regions of Italy. See also Category:Geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Regions of Italy .
Rank Region or autonomous province HDI (2022) Very high human development 1 Emilia-Romagna 0.935 2 Trentino 0.934 3 Lazio 0.929 4 Lombardy 0.927 5 South Tyrol 0.925 6 Tuscany
Friuli comes from the Latin term Forum Julii ('Julius' forum'), a center for commerce in the Roman times, which today corresponds to the city of Cividale. [10] The denomination Venezia Giulia ('Julian Venetia', not referring to the city of Venice but to the Roman province of Venetia et Histria) was proposed by the Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, with the intention of marking the ...
The Italian geographic region, Italian physical region or Italian region is a geographical region [1] of Southern Europe delimited to the north by the mountain chains of the Alps. This subregion is composed of a peninsular and continental part and an insular part .