Place:Alessandria, Piemonte, Italy

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NameAlessandria
Alt namesProvince of Alessandria
Alessandriasource: Wikipedia
Alessandria provincesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Provincia di Alessandriasource: Wikipedia
TypeProvince
Coordinates44.817°N 8.7°E
Located inPiemonte, Italy
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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The Province of Alessandria (; ; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: Provinsa ëd Lissändria) is an Italian province, with a population of some 425,000, which forms the southeastern part of the region of Piedmont. The provincial capital is the city of Alessandria.

With an area of it is the third largest province of Piedmont after the province of Cuneo and the Metropolitan City of Turin. To the north it borders on the province of Vercelli and to the west on the Metropolitan City of Turin and the province of Asti. It shares its southern border with Liguria (province of Savona and the Metropolitan City of Genoa). Its south-east corner touches the Province of Piacenza in Emilia Romagna, while to the east it borders on the Lombard Province of Pavia.

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