Province of Catania

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**Province of Catania**


Nation	Italy
Region	Sicily
Capital	Catania
Area	3,552 km²
Population (2005)	1,073,881
Density	302
Comuni	58
Vehicle Registration	CT
Postal Code	95100, 95010-95049
Telephone Prefix	095, 0942, 0933
ISTAT	087
President	Raffaele Lombardo

Map highlighting the location of the province of Catania in Italy

Catania (Italian: Provincia di Catania) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Catania.

It has an area of 3,552 km², and a total population of 1,073,881 (2005). There are 58 comunes (Italian: comuni) in the province[1], see Comunes of the Province of Catania. The main comunes by population are:

Comune	Population
Catania	305,717
Acireale	52,394
Paternò	49,006
Misterbianco	46,251
Caltagirone	39,299
Adrano	35,779
Gravina di Catania	28,018
Aci Catena	27,992
Giarre	26,821
Mascalucia	26,284
Biancavilla	23,308
Belpasso	22,032
Tremestieri Etneo	21,362
San Giovanni la Punta	20,526
Bronte, Sicily	19,147
Aci Castello	18,084
Scordia	17,168
Aci Sant'Antonio	16,796
Palagonia	16,393

1 Territory
- 1.1 Major Roads
2 Changes to the Province
3 External links

[edit] Territory

The province faces the Ionian Sea to the east, the Province of Messina to the north, the Province of Enna and the Province of Caltanissetta to the west, the Province of Siracusa and the Province of Ragusa to the south.

[edit] Major Roads

There are many major roads that cross the territory of the province. The S.S 114 (Messina-Catania-Siracusa) links many of the coastal towns from Messina to Siracusa, the S.S 121 (Catania-Caltanissetta-Palermo), which links the east coast to Palermo through the major towns of Misterbianco, Paternò and Adrano. There are also the A18 (Messina-Catania) and A19 (Catania-Palermo) highways that pass through the province.

The S.S 114 and S.S 192 (Catania-Enna) start from the Catania ring road.

[edit] Changes to the Province

There has been talk for many years of splitting the Province of Catania into three separate provinces with the southern part becoming the Province of Caltagirone, the north east of Etna becoming the province of Acireale-Giarre-Taormina. The new province would include all of the municipalities south of the Simeto River as well as some of the municipalities of ragusa and Caltanisetta. The proposal to create this tenth province has been put to referendum in the 1980s and was defeated and in the 1990s the proposal was reformulated and put towards the Assemblea Regionale Siciliana, and nothing has been acted upon since then.