Regions in Italy

Italy is subdivided into 20 regions. Five of these regions have a special autonomous status that enables them to enact legislation on some of their local matters. The country is further divided into 109 provinces and 8,101 municipalities. The North of Italy is the country's most populated and developed portion. The North contains the following regions: Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Valle d'Aosta, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto. Central Italy is the historically the most important part of the country.The regions of Lazio (the region around Rome), Abruzzo, Marche, Tuscany (Toscana), and Umbria occupy the Central Italy. Southern Italy has the regions of Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Molise. The Italian islands include Sardinia and Sicily , Capri, Ischia, Elba, Procida, Aeolian Islands, Aegadian Islands, Tremiti and Pantelleria.