Piedmont

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Mappa Regione Piemonte Country: Italy
Area: Italy Northwest
Capital: Torino (906,566 pop. / 2007)
Area: 25,399 km ²
Population: 4,394,304
Population density: 173 inhabitants / km ²
Provinces: Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Torino, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Vercelli
Municipalities: 1,206 common

The territory of the Piedmont region is mainly mountainous (well 43.3% of the region). The main mountain ranges are the Alps, which surround the region to the west and the Apennine Mountains, located on the border with Liguria and Emilia-Romagna form as a boundary naturale.Il Piedmont is rich in rivers, all tributaries of the River Po, which crosses the entire region from west to east, from the same quote over the Po, the Tanaro (its main tributary of the right), the Baltea the Sesia, the Dora Riparia, Stura di Lanzo and the ogre, the Ticino also be mentioned (but which flows for only a few km as the border with Lombardy) and especially the Toce, the largest tributary of Lake greater after the Ticino, which runs entirely in the province of Verbania.Le hilly areas are the main Canavese (northwest), the Langhe and Roero (southwest) and Monferrato (south). There are numerous lakes Alpine glacial. Lake Maggiore, one of the largest lakes in Italy, marks the boundary with Lombardy in the east, along with its effluent, the river Ticino.

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