The Province of Reggio Emilia is one of the eight provinces of the Italian Region of Emilia-Romagna. The capital is the city Reggio Emilia.

It has an area of 2,293 sq km, and a total population of 453,892 (2001). There are 45 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link (http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6)).

Other towns are Scandiano, Guastalla, Correggio, Novellara, Castelnovo Monti, Canossa. In the latter comune is located the castle of Canossa, property of the countess Matilde, where the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Henri IV humiliated himself in order to be reintegrated in the Catholic Communion by the pope.