Puglia - Definition and Overview

Regione Puglia

Capital	Bari
President	Raffaele Fitto (House of Freedoms)
Provinces	Bari Brindisi Foggia Lecce Taranto
Municipalities	258
Area	19,366 km²
- Ranked	7th (6.4 %)
Population (2001)  - Total  - Ranked  - Density	4,020,707 7th (7.1 %) 208/km²
Map higlighting the location of Puglia in Italy

Apulia is a region of Italy (called Puglia in Italian), bordering on Molise to the north-west, Campania to the south-west, Basilicata to the south, the Adriatic Sea to the east and the Ionian Sea to the south-east. It is close to Albania, which is 80 km across the Adriatic. The region covers 19,223 km² and has a population of 4.02 million.

The region encompasses the "heel" of Italy, the peninsula known as Salento or Terra di Lecce.

The regional capital is Bari.

The most important towns are:

• Bari
• Taranto
• Foggia
• Lecce
• Brindisi
• Alberobello
• Conversano
• Canosa
• Martina Franca
• Mesagne
• Molfetta
• Otranto
• Santa Maria di Leuca
• Trani
• Barletta

Regions of Italy
Regular Regions
Abruzzo | Basilicata | Calabria | Campania | Emilia-Romagna | Lazio (Latium) | Liguria | Lombardia (Lombardy) | Marche | Molise | Piemonte (Piedmont) | Puglia (Apulia) | Toscana (Tuscany) | Umbria | Veneto |
Regions with special autonomous status
Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Sardegna (Sardinia) | Sicilia (Sicily) | Trentino-Alto Adige (Trentino-South Tyrol) | Valle d'Aosta (Aosta Valley)