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'''Catania''' ({{lang-it|'''Provincia di Catania'''}}; [[Sicilian language|Sicilian]]: '''''Pruvincia di Catania''''') is a [[Provinces of Italy|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 [[comune]]s (Italian: ''comuni'') in the province[http://www.upinet.it/indicatore.asp?id_statistiche=6], see [[Comunes of the Province of Catania]]. The main comunes by population are:
{| class="wikitable"
!Comune
!Population
|-
|[[Catania]]
| align="right" |305,717
|-
|[[Acireale]]
| align="right" |52,394
|-
|[[Paternò]]
| align="right" |49,006
|-
|[[Misterbianco]]
| align="right" |46,251
|-
|[[Caltagirone]]
| align="right" |39,299
|-
|[[Adrano]]
| align="right" |35,779
|-
|[[Gravina di Catania]]
| align="right" |28,018
|-
|[[Aci Catena]]
| align="right" |27,992
|-
|[[Giarre]]
| align="right" |26,821
|-
|[[Mascalucia]]
| align="right" |26,284
|-
|[[Biancavilla]]
| align="right" |23,308
|-
|[[Belpasso]]
| align="right" |22,032
|-
|[[Tremestieri Etneo]]
| align="right" |21,362
|-
|[[San Giovanni la Punta]]
| align="right" |20,526
|-
|[[Bronte, Sicily]]
| align="right" |19,147
|-
|[[Aci Castello]]
| align="right" |18,084
|-
|[[Scordia]]
| align="right" |17,168
|-
|[[Aci Sant'Antonio]]
| align="right" |16,796
|-
|[[Palagonia]]
| align="right" |16,393
|-
|}
==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. [[Mount Etna]], Europe's largest active [[volcano]] is located in the province.
[[Image:Mount Etna snow-toppd.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mount Etna]] is located in the Province of Catania]]
[[Image:View of Vizzini.jpg|thumb|right|Panorama of [[Vizzini]] on the slopes of [[Monte Lauro]]]]
[[Image:Monterosso Etneo 2009.jpg|thumb|right|A view of Monterosso Etneo, in the Province of Catania. Monterosso means ''red mountain'' in English]]
===Major Roads===
There are many major roads that cross the territory of the province. The S.S 114 ([[Messina]]-[[Catania]]-[[Syracuse, Sicily|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 [[Masterbationco]], [[Paternò]] and [[Adrano]]. There are also the [[Autostrada A18 (Italy)|A18 Messina-Catania]] and [[Autostrada A19 (Italy)|A19 Catania-Palermo]] motorways that pass through the province.
The S.S 114 and S.S 192 (Catania-[[Enna]]) start from the [[Autostrada RA15 (Italy)|Catania by pass]] whilst the SS.514 runs through the southern part of the province and connects to [[Ragusa, Italy|Ragusa]].
Its population is 305,717 people.
==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.
==External links== [http://www.provincia.ct.it/ Official website] [http://www.comune.catania.it/portale/ City of Catania Official website] [http://www.apt.catania.it Tourism Portal]
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