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From: Bobby Baccala 
Subject: Understanding Italy's Regions, Provinces and Towns
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Understanding Italy's Regions, Provinces and Towns.
[using the Region of Lombardia as an example]

LOMBARDIA is one of the 20 REGIONS in Italy.

Within LOMBARIA there are 11 Provinces of the 103 total Provinces in Italy.
They are: Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Milano, Pavio,
Sondrio, and Varese.

Within each PROVINCE there are many Comuni (towns).  There are a total of 1546
Comuni (towns) within these 11 Provinces. For example: Bergamo has 250, Brescia
has 206, etc.

The Region of Lombardia was constitutionally formed in 1970.

Of its 11 Provinces, 2 are "new" having been formed in 1992. (Official date
March 6, 1992). They are Lecco and Lodi.

Lecco was formed from 6 Comuni (towns) that were formerly in the Province of
Bergamo and 84 Comuni that were formerly in the Province of Como.  Lodi was
formed from 61 Comuni from the Province of Milano. 

In the USA, a comparative breakdown would be: Regions would = States 
Provinces = Counties 
Comuni = Towns, Villages, Municipalities, Townships 

I hope I'm not oversimplifying, but you need not worry about the REGION. You
will be writing to the applicable PROVINCE and the COMUNI. 
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By Stephen J. Saviello, 1997
Owner, Comunes_of_Italy Mailing List