Province of Trieste
Province of Trieste
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| Regional Decentralization Entity of Trieste Ente di decentramento regionale di Trieste (Italian) | |
Piazza Vittorio Veneto in Trieste, housing the provincial seat in the palace at left | |
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Coat of arms | |
Map highlighting the location of the province of Trieste in Italy | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
| Established | 1920 |
| Disestablished | 30 September 2017 |
| Capital(s) | Trieste |
| Municipalities | 6 |
| Government | |
| • President | Paolo Viola |
| Area | |
• Total | 212.51 km2 (82.05 sq mi) |
| Population (2025) | |
• Total | 227,792 |
| • Density | 1,071.9/km2 (2,776.2/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | €7.886 billion (2015) |
| • Per capita | €33,490 (2015) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 34121-34151 (Trieste); 34010-34018 (surroundings) |
| Telephone prefix | 040 |
| ISO 3166 code | IT-TS |
| Vehicle registration | TS |
| ISTAT | 032 |
The province of Trieste (Italian: provincia di Trieste) is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Trieste. It has a population of 227,792 in an area of 212 square kilometres (82 mi2). It has a coastal length of 48.1 kilometres (29.9 mi). Abolished in 2017, it was reestablished in 2019 as the regional decentralization entity of Trieste (Italian: ente di decentramento regionale di Trieste; Slovene: enota deželne decentralizacije Trst; Friulian: ent di decentrament regjonâl di Triest), and was reactivated on 1 July 2020.
The province contains 6 municipalities (comuni). It is the smallest province in Italy by area, and its land area is much smaller than large Italian cities.