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South Tyrol
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autonomous province of Italy
South Tyrol is an autonomous province in northern Italy that has its own regional government and significant self-governing powers. It matters because its special status reflects a unique compromise between Italian and local German-speaking populations, making it an important example of how regions with distinct cultural identities can be governed within a larger nation-state.
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Government
- Location
- Bolzano, Italy
- Also known as
- Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, Province of Bolzano, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano
- Status
- Active
ISNI 0000 0001 2348 4130
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Italy
- Part of
- Trentino-South Tyrol
- Named after
- south
- Official name
- Provincia autonoma di Bolzano - Alto Adige Autonome Provinz Bozen - SüdtirolProvinzia Autonòma de Bulsan - Südtirol
- Demonym
- sudtirolesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Venezia Tridentina
- Contains
- Sterzing
- Capital
- Bolzano
- Official language
- Ladin
- Population
- 531178
- Area
- 7400.43
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Head of government
- Alois Pupp
- Legislature
- Landtag of South Tyrol
- Shares border with
- Landeck District
- Official website
- home.provinzia.bz.it/lld/home
- Image
- Herbstpanorama Sankt Magdalena Villnöß.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0471
- Licence plate code
- BZ
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- language used
- German
- Commons category
- South Tyrol
- postal code
- 39010–39059
- topic's main category
- Category:South Tyrol
- Commons gallery
- Südtirol - Alto Adige
- inception
- 1948-00-00
- category for people who died here
- Q15268218
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in the province of Bolzano
- category of associated people
- Category:People from South Tyrol
- member of
- Climate Alliance
- topic has template
- Template:South Tyrol
- native label
- Provincia autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige
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Encyclopedic overview
South Tyrol (German: Südtirol [ˈzyːtːiˌʁoːl] , locally [ˈsyːtiˌroːl]; Italian: Alto Adige [ˈalto ˈaːdidʒe]; Ladin: Südtirol), officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. Together with Trentino, South Tyrol forms the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province is Italy's northernmost, with an area of 7,400 square kilometres (2,857 sq mi), and has a population of about 534,000 as of 2021. Its capital and largest city is Bolzano.
The Atlas Tyrolensis, showing the entire County of Tyrol, printed in Vienna in 1774
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