More than 18 municipalities merged in the first quarter of 2018

How Italy is changing

Italy is changing — not only politically, but also in its administrative geography.

In the first months of 2018 alone, nineteen municipal mergers were approved, for a total of forty-two municipalities suppressed and eighteen new municipalities.

The regions affected by municipal mergers in 2018 are

• Calabria (1),
• Emilia-Romagna (1),
• Friuli Venezia Giulia (2),
• Liguria (1),
• Lombardy (4),
• Piedmont (5),
• Tuscany (2),
• Trentino-Alto Adige (1)
• Veneto (2).

With the establishment of the municipality of Montalto Carpasio, the first merger approved in Liguria is recorded.

As many as fourteen provinces are affected (CS, PC, IM, CO, LC, LO, MN, AL, AL, VC, AR, LI, PD, VI).

The territorial reorganisation already under way for some years continues — and, surprisingly, it has also seen the creation of a new province in Sardinia.

And our data?

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Figure: the source article’s illustration of automated record alignment.

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