Caprino Bergamasco is a
comuneIn Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
(municipality) in the
Province of BergamoThe Province of Bergamo is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. It has a population of 1,098,740 , an area of 2,722.86 square km, and contains 244 comuni...
in the
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
region of
LombardyLombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
, located about 40 km northeast of
MilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
and about 15 km northwest of
BergamoBergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...
. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,908 and an area of 8.6 km².
The municipality of Caprino Bergamasco contains the
frazioniA frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...
(subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Sant'Antonio d'Adda, Celana, Opreno, Perlupario, Formorone and Ombria.
Caprino Bergamasco borders the following municipalities:
Cisano BergamascoCisano Bergamasco is a town and comune in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, northern Italy....
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PalazzagoPalazzago is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 45 km northeast of Milan and about 12 km northwest of Bergamo...
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PontidaPontida is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northeast of Milan and about 13 km northwest of Bergamo...
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RoncolaRoncola is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 45 km northeast of Milan and about 12 km northwest of Bergamo...
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Torre de' BusiTorre de' Busi is a comune in the Province of Lecco in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 40 km northeast of Milan and about 11 km southeast of Lecco...
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