The province of Cagliari (; ) was a

province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

in the autonomous island region of

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, Italy. Its capital city was

Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...

. It had an area of , and a total population of 543,310 (2001). There were 71 ''

comuni A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' (: ''

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'') in the provinc

The historical province was suppressed by the 2016 Regional Decree Province of Cagliari and replaced by the

Metropolitan City of Cagliari The Metropolitan City of Cagliari (; Sardinian language, Sardinian: ''tzittadi metropolitana de Casteddu'') is a Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Sardinia, Italy. Its capital is the city of Cagliari and includes 17 ''comuni'' ( ...

and by the province of South Sardinia.

Geography

The valley of Piscinamanna is in the province.

Major ''comuni''

As of June 30, 2005, the major ''

'' (municipalities) by population was:

Government

List of presidents of the province of Cagliari

Provincial elections

The Democratic Party (, PD) is a

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political party in Italy, with

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...

(, PdL), it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system.

External links

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Official website
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