Province of Milan

Milan (It. Provincia di Milano) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Milan.

It has an area of 1,984 km², and a total population of 3,707,210 (2001). There are 189 comuni in the province (source: Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), see this link).

The new Monza e Brianza province has been created with part of the province of Milan, and will be effective in 2009. The loss of the new province's component 50 comuni, with a combined population of 731,573 would leave the surviving Province of Milan with an adjusted population of 2,975,637 in its remaining territory (2001 census).Map locating Province of Milan