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Guide Italia - Liguria
Mappa regione Liguria Country: Italy
Area: Italy Northwest
Capital: Genova
Area: 5,421 km ²
Population: 1,609,552 (31/10/2007)
Population density: 297 inhabitants / km ²
Province: Genoa, Imperia, La Spezia, Savona
Municipalities: 235 municipalities

With his 5421 km ² Liguria is one of the smallest regions of Italy, after Valle d'Aosta and Molise, but it is one of the most densely populated as it hosts more than 1,600,000 inhabitants for a density of 297 inhabitants / km ², very above the national average, ranking the fourth place, after Campania, Lombardy and Lazio, in the relationship between population and land area. Given the hilly terrain and the fact that forests cover its slopes over 70%, it is clear, however, that there are significant differences between the density of people in the hinterland (which also occurred depopulation and migration to coastal cities) and the coastline of almost 1000 km2.
The region is between the Maritime Alps and the Apennines and the Ligurian Sea to the north to south, with an unbroken chain which is a veritable backbone that has continued in its development (oriented along two axes: SW / NE and NW / IF you meet a few miles west of downtown Genoa), but discontinuous in its morphology, with stretches where the ridge Alpine / Apennine is extremely compact and high mountain ranges aligning very high (behind Ventimiglia, a series of massive, now French administration rises to elevations of 2700-3000 m) while in other sections (eg in the hinterland of Savona and Genoa), the mountain barrier is very high and deeply incised by short transverse valleys and passes that do not reach to 500 m above sea level (nozzle Altar, Passo Giovi, Crocetta of Orero).
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