Calabria
Calabria, officially the Regione Calabria, is a region in the southern part of the Italian peninsula. It is the tenth largest Italian region by total area (after Apulia and Toscana) with 5,877 sq mi (15,222 km2). It has more people than any other state with over 2 million people as of 2020. Its largest cities are Reggio Calabria, Cosenza, and Vibo Valentia. The capital is Catanzaro. The region around its borders are Basilicata to the north, the Gulf of Taranto to the east, the Ionian Sea to the south, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from the Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west.
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| Country | Italy |
| Capital | Catanzaro |
| Government | |
| • President | Antonino Spirlì (Democratic Party) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 15,081 km2 (5,823 sq mi) |
| Population (2007-12-31) | |
| • Total | 2,007,707 |
| • Density | 133.128/km2 (344.801/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| GDP/ Nominal | €32.5 billion (2006) |
| NUTS Region | ITF |
| Website | www.regione.calabria.it |
Calabria is the Italian region with the 14th largest economy and one of the most largest in the South .
Provinces
Calabria Media
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Mont Pollino. Along the suggestive road to Piano Ruggio.
La Sila National Park.
Calabria in a photo from the ISS
Geotectonic map of the Central Mediterranean Area and the Calabrian Arc. The blue area is the geotectonic cross section depicted below. From van Dijk (1992)
Geotectonic Cross Section of the Calabrian Arc. Left: NW; Right: SE. From van Dijk (1992)
Magna Grecia around 280 BC
Arbëreshë costumes in Calabria about 1800
Calabrian olive tree plantations
Etrog with Pitam and Gartel
Other websites
- Official Site (IT) Archived 1998-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Calabria Web Portal (IT) Archived 2021-02-12 at the Wayback Machine