Gorizia Province
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| State : | Italy |
| Region : | Friuli Venezia Giulia |
| Area : | 466.02 km² ( 104. ) |
| Residents : | 139,206 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 299 inhabitants / km² |
| Number of municipalities: | 25th |
| License plate : | GO |
| ISO-3166-2 identification : | IT-GO |
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The Italian province of Gorizia (German Görz , Slovenian Gorica , Furlanisch Gurize ) was a province in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region until September 30, 2017 and had 139,439 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017) on 466 km². The capital of the province was Gorizia .
As in the case of the other three provinces of Friuli Venezia Giulia ( Pordenone , Trieste and Udine ), which were also abolished as independent institutions, this former province also continues to exist as an administrative district of decentralized state administrations or as a statistical area.
The province had a large proportion of ethnic Slovenes , so Slovenian was an additional official language. The province also included the seaside resort of Grado , which was the seat of a patriarch in the early Middle Ages .
geography
The former province lies partly in the Venetian Plain and partly in the Karst .
In the former province there is the well-known DOC wine Collio . The most famous municipality in the wine-growing region is Cormons . The Isonzo enters the territory of the former province near Gorizia and flows through it to its confluence with the Gulf of Trieste south of Monfalcone . The rest of the former province is flat.
Communities
The following 25 municipalities belonged to the province of Gorizia:
The largest municipalities (as of December 31, 2013) were
| local community | Residents |
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| Gorizia | 35,349 |
| Monfalcone | 27,843 |
| Ronchi dei Legionari | 11,980 |
| Grado | 8,455 |
| Cormons | 7,520 |
| Staranzano | 7,257 |
| Gradisca d'Isonzo | 6,527 |
| San Canzian d'Isonzo | 6,259 |
| Romans d'Isonzo | 3,677 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ Consiglio regional del Friuli Venezia Giulia: Soppressione delle Province del Friuli Venezia Giulia , accessed on July 7, 2019
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT . Monthly population statistics from the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31, 2013.