Naples (It. Provincia di Napoli) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Naples. In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Location within Italy Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region. ...
It has an area of 1,171 sq km, and a total population of 3,059,196 (2001). There are 92 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).
External link
Provincia di Napoli homepage (in Italian) (http://www.provincia.napoli.it)
In 1472, in the drastic redistribution of the Italian Provinces by the Vicar General, Christopher Martignoni, the houses in the Kingdom of Naples were separated from the Province of Rome.
In 1725, the Province of Terra di Lavoro handed over five houses to a new Province of Naples formed from the ten granges of the Carmine Maggiore of Naples and the former convent of the Province of Monte Santo in the same city.
In 1847, after the restoration of the Bourbons, the Province of Naples was re-constituted from seven houses formerly of the Provinces of Puglia, Rome, and Abruzzo.
Naples is beautifully situated at the base and on the slopes of the hills enclosing the Bay of Naples.
Naples was its capital until it fell to Garibaldi and was annexed to the kingdom of Sardinia (1860).
Naples is the largest and most prosperous city in Southern Italy, and it is one of the largest cities in Italy with a population of 1,000,449, and a metropolitan population of 3,085,447 (other estimates include up to 4.2 million inhabitants in metro area).
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