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 ITALY 441 NAMES OF PROVINCES AND LARGE DIVISIONS. Area. Dl>- trlcti. Com- munes. Pop. In 1873. PIEDMONT. 1,952 2,755 2,526 4,063 6 4 6 5 844 203 433 442 688,861 618,232 624,985 972,986 Total 11,301 H 1,497 2,899,664 LIGTJRIA. 1,539 467 5 2 210 107 817 716,759 127,053 Xotal 2,056 7 843,812 LOMBAEDY. 1,038 1,644 1,050 632 962 1,155 1,292 1,262 3 5 8 S 11 5 4 1 306 285 618 135 67 818 263 78 868.152 456,028 477,642 800,595 H.V-.SI42 1,009,794 443,435 111,241 Brescia Milan Pavia Total 9,085 85 j 1,965 8,460,824 TENETIA. 1,271 755 651 941 2,515 850 1,061 1,016 7 8 8 8 17 7 11 10 66 103 68 96 180 51 118 128 175,282 864,430 200.835 852,538 481,586 887,583 867,437 868,161 Udine Total 9,060 76 795 2,642,807 EMILIA. 1,891 1,010 719 966 1,251 965 742 877 8 8 8 8 8 2 8 2 68 16 40 45 60 48 21 45 439.232 215,369 284.090 278,281 264,831 225,775 221,115 240,635 Korli Modena Total 7,921 22 828 2,118,828 MARCHES. 786 809 1,057 1,144 1 2 2 2 61 71 64 78 262,349 208,004 236,994 213,072 Total 8,746 7 249 815,419 r-MHRIA. 8,720 6 178 649,601 TUSCANY. 1.278 2,263 1,707 126 676 687 1,180 1,465 1 4 1 2 1 3 2 2 41 78 20 5 22 85 40 87 284,645 766,824 107,457 118,851 280.399 161,944 265.959 206,446 Pisa Siena. Total 9,287 16 278 2,142,625 I.ATIUM. 4,601 5 227 886,704 ABBPZZO AND MOLISE. 2,510 1,778 1,105 1,284 4 8 3 2 127 184 121 74 882,784 864,208 889,986 246,004 Chietl Teramo Total 6,677 12 456 1,282,932 NAMES OF PROVINCES AND LARGE DIVISIONS. Area. Dh- tricu. Cora- munea. Pop. In 1878. C.VMIMM. 1,4(19 S 128 875,691 683 8 73 28-2,008 2,807 5 185 697.403 412 4 69 907.752 2,126 4 159 541,788 Total 6942 19 614 2 754,592 APULIA. Bar! 2,293 3 53 604,540 2.958 S 53 W-2.7.V- 8,298 4 180 493,594 Total 8,589 10 286 1,420,892 BA8II.IOATA. Fotenza 4122 4 124 510543 CALABRIA. 2807 4 152 412 26 2 841 4 151 440468 1 515 3 107 858 60S Total 6,668 11 SICILY. Cnltanisetta 1455 3 23 230066 1 970 4 64 4 ( f> 415 Girgenti l'491 3 41 289 013 17CS 4 99 40 64!) 1964 4 76 617 673 1429 3 32 294 885 Trapani 1214 3 20 236 883 Total 11 291 SARDINIA. Cagliari 5,257 4 253 898203 4,142 5 110 243,452 Total 9899 9 868 636660 Total Italy... 114.409 284 a882 26.S01.154 The length of the coast line of Italy, exclu- sive of the islands (for the description of which the reader is referred to the respective articles), is upward of 2,000 m. The western portion of the coast of the gulf of Genoa is called Ri- viera di Ponente, shore of the setting sun; it is lofty and precipitous, and extends from the mouth of the Roja at Ventimiglia to Genoa. From Genoa to Spezia is the Riviera di Levante, shore of the rising sun, offering less of alpine characteristics, but still hold and mountainous. From the mouth of the Arno to that of the Tiber, the coast in Tuscany is occasionally hold, but for the most part low and swampy, with several bays toward the south. In the former Papal States it is almost everywhere low and marshy, scarcely raised above the sea level in the neighborhood of Ostia, and S. of the Tiber presents the same dull level aspect, broken only by the headland and large projecting moles of Porto d'Anzio. The Neapolitan coast along the Tyrrhenian sea is for the most part bold and rocky, and scooped out into broad and deep bays, whose shores are dotted with historic cit- ies and towns. The part washed by the Ionian sea, from the straits of Messina to Cape Riz- zuto, is faced by steep rocks backed by alpine heights. Beyond Taranto, and almost through-