Venice (It. Provincia di Venezia) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Venice.
It has an area of 2,462 sq km, and a total population of 809,586 (2001). There are 44 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 Venezia homepage (in Italian) (http://www.provincia.venezia.it)
In Italy, a province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level between municipality (comune) and region (regione).
A provincia is composed of many comuni (pl), and usually several province (pl) form a region (with the exception of the region of the Aosta Valley, which, strictly speaking, has none, the administrative functions of a province being provided by the regione.
As of 2006, there are 110 provinces of Italy, three of which will be wholly effective in 2009.
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