divisions. The areas of provinces marked with an asterisk are definitely ascertained by the Government Survey Department; the others are estimated partly by the Military Geographical Institute, partly by the General Statistical Department: 1 The Italian survey department determined the total area to be 110,659 square miles, the difference, 109 square miles, is owing to uncertainty as to the exact area of several of the provinces. The resident or legal population on February 10, 1901, numbered 32,966,307. The number of foreigners in Italy in 1901 was 61,606 (of whom 37,762 were domiciled within the kingdom and 23,844 were transitory); 11,616 were Austrians (including 673 Hungarians), 10,757 Swiss, 6,953 French, 8,768 English, 10,745 Germans, 1,503 Russians, 2,907 Americans (United States), 764 Greeks, 1,400 Spaniards, and the rest mainly Turks, Belgians, Swedes and Norwegians, Dutch, Egyptians, Argentines, Brazilians. The administrative divisions of Italy are provinces, territories (circondari), districts (distretti), and communes. There are 69 provinces: of which 60 are divided into territories, and 9 (the province of Mantua and the 8 provinces of Venetia) into districts. There are 197 territories and 87 districts. Most of the districts (70) have been de facto suppressed, though still nominally existing as administrative divisions. The territories and districts are divided into communes (comuni); the number at present (December, 1904) is 8,279. The population of Italy is in general perfectly homogeneous. According to statistics of 1901, the exceptions are about 80,200 of French origin, in the territories of Aosta, Pinerolo, and Susa, in the province of Torino; 11,400 of Teutonic origin in some communes of the territories (circondari) of Domodossola and Varallo, in the province of Novara, of Aosta in the province of Torino, of Tregnago in the province of Verona, of Ampezzo in the province of Udine, and of Vicenza and Belluno; 90,000 of Albanian origin, in a dozen communes of Nearer Calabria, and in some communes of the provinces of Foggia, Avellino, Potenza, Teramo, Campobasso, Lecce, and Palermo; 31,200 of Greek origin, in a few communes of Nearer and Further Calabria, and of the province of Lecce; 9,800 of Spanish (Catalan) origin, settled in Alghero in the province of Sassari, in Sardinia; lastly, 30,000 Slavs in the arrondissements of Larino (province Campobasso), Lanciano (Chieto) and Udine. The population over 15 years of age in 1901 (February 10) was 21,318,495; of these 7,534,346 were unmarried, 11,686,715 were married, and 2,097,434 were widowers or widows. Of the whole population, 18,689, 103 or 57 6 per cent. were unmarried; 11,688,716 or 360 per cent. were married; and 2,097,434 or 6.5 per cent. were widowers or widows. The numbers of inhabitants at the different centres do not in Italian statistics afford a sufficient basis for distinguishing between the urban and rural population. In Northern Italy the population is scattered over the country and there are few centres. In Southern Italy and in the islands the country people live in the towns, coming and going to cultivate their own plots of land; consequently there are many populous centres where, if numbers alone were considered, the population would be regarded as urban, though it is, in truth, almost exclusively rural. The following statement gives the number of the head communes (capoluoghi) of provinces and of territories (circondari) or districts, with their population according to the census of 1901, but many of these local capitals have under 6,000 inhabitants : Head communes of provinces : 69 population. 5,610,530 215 The following table gives the population according to occupation in 1901, exclusive of children under 9 years : Number of proprietors in Italy according to the results of the census of 1901 was proprietors of lands, 1,045,113; of buildings, 823,442; of lands and buildings, 2,241,578; total, 4,110,133. 1899 235,665 1,070,074 67,262 1,088,558 45,092 703,393 385,165 45,910 768,917 298.459 46,254 715,036 342,727 48,675 727,181 365,893 1,042,159 46,685 736,322 305,837 2. Emigration. The numbers of emigrants from Italy to various parts of the world, according to Italian statistics for six years were: |