Nuoro (It. Provincia di Nuoro) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Nuoro. In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Sardinia (Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardegna in Italian, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ... The Italian Republic or Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. ... Nùgoro is the local name of Nuoro, the main town of central Sardinia, Italy. ...
It has an area of 7,044 sq km, and a total population of 264,859 (2001). There are 100 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).