Province of Caltanissetta
Also known as provincia di Caltanissetta, Caltanissetta Province, Caltanissetta, Cartanissetta, pruvincia di Cartanissetta, IT-CL
former province of Sicily, Italy
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Caltanissetta is a former province located in Sicily, Italy, that was dissolved and reorganized as part of administrative reforms. It represents part of Sicily's historical regional structure and geography, though it no longer exists as an independent administrative division today.
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- Official name
- Provincia Regionale di Caltanissetta
- Area
- 2128
- Elevation
- 568
- Official website
- www.provincia.cl.it
- Image
- Sizilien bei Mussomeli.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0922
- Licence plate code
- CL
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- Province of Caltanissetta
- postal code
- 93010–93019
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
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The province of Caltanissetta (Italian: provincia di Caltanissetta; Sicilian: pruvincia di Nissa or pruvincia di Cartanissetta; officially libero consorzio comunale di Caltanissetta) is a province in the southern part of Sicily, Italy. Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 2015 by the free municipal consortium of Caltanissetta (Italian: libero consorzio comunale di Caltanissetta). It has a population of 243,501 in an area 2,138.37 square kilometres (825.63 sq mi) of across its 22 municipalities.
Its coat of arms is a red crest and two green leaf stems on top with a laurel leaf on the right and a crown in the middle. The River Salso is the main river of the province; it is 122 kilometres (76 mi) long and originates in the province of Palermo, and it flows into the Mediterranean in this province at the end of the Gulf of Gela.