Province of Piacenza

Map of the province of Piacenza

The province of Piacenza has an area of 2,585.86 km² (998 sq mi).[2] It is the most western of the nine provinces in the region of Emilia-Romagna in northwestern Italy. It is divided in two zones from north to south; the northern part is largely flat (the Pianura Padana or valley of the Po river) but the southern two thirds are hilly and gets up the Apennines mountains.[4]

The province is bordered to the north by the region of Lombardy (Cremona, Lodi and Pavia provinces), to the east by the Parma province, to the south by the region of Liguria (Metropolitan City of Genoa) and to the west by the region of Piedmont (Alessandria province).

The main river in the province is the Po river.

The main lakes in the province are artificial lakes; two of them are:

• Mignano (Lago di Mignano), at an altitude of 341 m (1,119 ft). It is the largest lake of the province with an area of 2 km² (0.77 sq mi).[5]
• Trebecco (Lago di Trebecco), at an altitude of 359 m (1,178 ft) with an area of 73,000 m² (790,000 sq ft).

The highest mountain in the province is Monte Bue (44°33′21″N 9°29′35″E); it is 1,780 m (5,840 ft) high.[6]

There are 286,758 persons living in the province (January 2017),[3] for a population density of 110.9 inhabitants/km². The communes with more inhabitants are Piacenza (102,355 inhabitants) and Fiorenzuola d'Arda (15,306 inhabitants). The commune with fewest people living in it is Zerba, with 78 inhabitants.

The following shows the 45 comuni with the population,[7] and the area and altitude.[8]

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  Duomo square in Piacenza
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  Monte Penice small church
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  Sant'agata - The country house of Giuseppe Verdi
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  San Michele Arcangelo church, Zerba