Province of Venice

The Province of Venice was a province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its capital was the city of Venice.
It had an area of 2,467 km2, and a total population of 846,962 . The province became the Metropolitan City of Venice by 1 January 2015.
Statistics recorded since 1871 show that the population of the Province of Venice increased from some 341,000 inhabitants in 1871 to almost 847,000 in 2011. It rose steadily in each of the ten-year statistical periods until 1981 whereafter there were declines until 2001 when the population dipped to 809,586. Finally, there was an increase of 4.6% in the ten-year period from 2001 to 2011 when the number of inhabitants reached 340,913.

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