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Provincia di Catania
Val di Catania
Province of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Kingdom of Italy and the Italian Republic
1818–2015

Map highlighting area and location of the province of Catania in Southern Italy until 1927

Map highlighting area and location of the province of Catania in Italy since 1927
CapitalCatania
Area
 • Coordinates37°31′N 15°4′E / 37.517°N 15.067°E / 37.517; 15.067
 
• 2014
3,552 km2 (1,371 sq mi)
Population 
• 2014
1,116,917
History 
• Established
1 January 1818
• Royal Decree of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
11 October 1817
• Giuseppe Garibaldi's Decree for the Kingdom of Italy[1]
11 June 1860
• Disestablished
4 August 2015
Today part ofMetropolitan City of Catania
Mount Etna was located in the province of Catania.
The Carnival of Acireale is the most famous of the Sicily.

The province of Catania (Italian: provincia di Catania; Sicilian: pruvincia di Catania) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy. Its capital was the city of Catania. It had an area of 3,552 square kilometres (1,371 sq mi) and a total population of about 1,116,917 as of 31 December 2014.[2]

Historically known also as Val di Catania,[a] it included until 1927 a large part of the province of Enna.

It was replaced by the Metropolitan City of Catania starting from 4 August 2015.

  1. ^ Raccolta degli Atti di Governo dittatoriale e prodittatoriale in Sicilia - 1860 [Collection of the Dictatiorial and Pro-Dictatiorial Government Acts in Sicily of 1860] (PDF), Palermo: Francesco Lao, 1861, p. 45, retrieved 2020-02-08
  2. ^ "2014 Istat census".


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