Province of Forlì-Cesena facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Province of Forlì-Cesena
Province
Piazza Aurelio Saffi, Forlì
Map with the province of Forlì-Cesena, in red, in Italy
Country	Italy
Region	Emilia-Romagna
Capital	Forlì
Comuni	30
Area
• Total	2,378.40 km2 (918.31 sq mi)
Population  (January 2017)
• Total	394,067
• Density	165.6858/km2 (429.1241/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	47121 - 47122 Forlì, 47521 - 47522 Cesena
Telephone prefix	0543, 0547
ISO 3166 code	IT-FC
Vehicle registration	FC
ISTAT	040
Website	Official website: http://web.provincia.fc.it/

The province of Forlì-Cesena (Italian: provincia di Forlì-Cesena) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region in northeastern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital is the city of Forlì.

History

The province was created as Province of Forlì with the car plates FO.

In 1992, the southern part of the province was separated to form the new Province of Rimini and the name of the province was changed to the present of Province of Forlì-Cesena and the car plates were changed in 1999 to FC.

The ISO 3166-2 of the province was also changed to FC in 2010.

Geography

Map of the province of Forlì-Cesena

The province of Forlì-Cesena has an area of 2,378.40 km² (918.3 sq mi). It is, together with the Rimini province, the most southerly of the provinces in the Emilia-Romagna region; it has a short coast along the Adriatic Sea.

The provincial capital, the city of Forlì, is along the Montone river and at about 70 km (43 mi) southeast of Bologna, the capital of the region.

The province is bordered to the north by the province of Ravenna, to the northwest by the province of Mantua in Lombardy, to the west by the province of Florence province in Tuscany, to the south by the province of Arezzo, also in Tuscany, to the southeast by the Rimini and to the east by the Adriatic Sea.

	Mantua (province) (Lombardy)	Ravenna (province)
	Florence (province) (Tuscany)		Adriatic Sea
		Forlì-Cesena (province)
		Arezzo (province) (Tuscany)	Rimini (province)

In the province there are two main protected areas:

• Parco naturale del fiume Savio (Natural park of the Savio river), along the Savio river; and
• Parco nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna, a national park in the northern Apennines.

Population

There are 394,067 persons living in the province (January 2017), for a population density of 165.7 inhabitants/km².

Administration

The following shows the 30 comuni with the population, and the area and altitude.

Images for kids

• 

  Piazza del Popolo in Cesena.

See also

In Spanish: Provincia de Forlì-Cesena para niños