South Tyrol
Also known as Alto Adige, autonomous province of Bolzano, Bolzano province, province of Bolzano-Bozen, South Tirol, autonomous province of Bolzano-Bozen, autonomous province of Bozen, Bozen province
autonomous province of Italy
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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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- 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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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